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On Her Shoulders (film)
''On Her Shoulders'' is a 2018 American documentary film. It was directed by Alexandria Bombach and produced by Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams and Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown under the banner of RYOT Films. The film follows Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad on her three-month tour of Berlin, New York, and Canada, as she met with politicians and journalists to alert the world to the massacres and kidnapping happening in her native land. In 2014, at the age of 19, Murad had been kidnapped with hundreds of other women and girls by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and held as a sex slave; she managed to escape. Also appearing in the film are Barack Obama, Ban Ki-moon, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian, Michelle Rempel, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Ahmed Khudida Burjus, Amal Clooney, and Luis Moreno Ocampo. The film was released on 20 January 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It received positive critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria Bombach
Alexandria Bombach is an American filmmaker. Career Bombach is from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She graduated from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In 2009, she founded the production company, Red Reel. Her first film, ''23 Feet'' (2011), "captures people doing what they love outside," and raised $9,785 on Kickstarter. In 2012, she produced and directed the documentary film series ''MoveShake'', a "look into the complicated lives of people who have set out to make a positive environmental or social impact." Her first feature documentary, '' Frame by Frame'', co-directed with Mo Scarpelli, premiered at SXSW in 2015. Also in 2015, Bombach released an 18-minute documentary entitled ''Common Ground'', which dealt with disputes over unprotected public land in Montana. In 2016, Bombach received Pulitzer Center support for ''The New York Times'' "op-doc" ''Afghanistan by Choice'', which, like ''Frame by Frame'', was filmed in Afghanistan. In 2018, Bombach premiered her documentary ''On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ki-moon Ban
Ban Ki-moon (; ; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was his country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade between 2004 and 2006. Ban was the foreign minister of South Korea between 2004 and 2006. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations however, he began to campaign for the office in February 2006. As the foreign minister of South Korea, he was able to travel to all the countries on the United Nations Security Council, a maneuver that subsequently turned him into the campaign's front runner. On 13 October 2006, he was elected as the Secretary-General of the United Nations#List of Secretaries-General, eighth secretary-general by the United Nations General Assembly. On 1 January 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan. As secretary-general, he was responsible f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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