The first rotating banner heading on the website for the documentary Davids & Goliath reads: “This is about the most monstrous crime that I can conceive of.” It's by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). But don't let that stop you tonight from seeing the film that has also been known as Human Harvest.
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That's because, like his advocacy for decriminalizing medical marijuana, The Mouth That Rohrabachered is right on this one. Canadian filmmaker Leon Lee's look at China's illegal organ harvesting industry just won a coveted Peabody Award for Documentary.
In the film, Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour investigate the organ harvesting trade in China and uncover one of the world's worst crimes against humanity.
Lee is scheduled to to be joined at a Q&A following the film by a former prisoner of conscience who will share a first-hand account of the human rights abuses currently occurring in China's labor camps in regards to organ harvesting. So it should be quite the moving evening beginning at 7:30 at Big Newport. Go here for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/838875129521346/.
Here is the trailer:
Human Harvest: China's Illegal Organ Trade – Trailer from Flying Cloud on Vimeo.
Davids & Goliath
It's actually a night of films to unleash your inner activist at NBFF tonight. Consider …
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Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture Annabelle Selldorf (New York), Marianne McKenna (Toronto), Kathryn Gustafson (Seattle and London), Farshid Moussavi (London), and Odile Decq (Paris) are creating some of the most exciting architectural designs in the world. How have they navigated their way to the top? Making Space shows you how they did it. 5 p.m., Island Cinemas
A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story Born with a rare syndrome that really exists and prevents her from gaining weight, 26-year-old and 58-pound Lizzie Velasquez becomes an anti-bullying activist after a YouTube video names her “The World's Ugliest Woman.” 7 p.m., South Coast Village
Preoccupied For something completely different there's award-winning commercial director Brendan Gibbons' feature film debut: a satirical story of two New York investment bankers' misguided attempts to quash the movement to end income inequality in our country. “It's sex, drugs and banking as we've never seen before,” promise producers. Or, as we call them in Orange County: parties. 8 p.m., Island Cinemas
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