Chimes of Freedom ; Czech Film Festival Returns; to District for Second Year
The Washington Times › March 27, 2009
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For the second year in a row, the Echoes of One World film festival comes to Washington, bringing the highlights of the Czech Republic's foremost documentary film festival to the United States.
The One World International Human Rights Film Festival has found massive success in the Czech Republic, to the tune of more than 100,000 paid admissions last year, according to the festival's director, Igor Blazevic. The festival is sponsored by People in Need, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to relief work and development assistance for countries where human rights aren't guaranteed.See the full content of this document
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Chimes of Freedom ; Czech Film Festival Returns; to District for Second Year
Born of the Velvet Revolution, the Czechoslovak student uprising of 1989 that resulted in the overthrow of that country's Communist government, People in Need conceives of itself as a way of giving back to the world after the world aided it in its struggle against c...
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