4/26 – An evening with Emmy-winning filmmaker Saul Landau
April 20, 2010
Monday, April 26, 7pm
UWM Union Theater
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd
Saul Landau presents “Will the Real Terrorists Please Stand Up?”
An expose’ of U.S.-based terrorism against progressives in the U.S. and Latin America & especially the people of Cuba.
Monday, April 26, 7pm in UWM’s Union Theater, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee. Free and open to the public.
In 2008 Emmy award winning director Saul Landau received Chile’s highest award for his lifelong human rights work, the Order of Bernado O’Higgins. He is the author of 15 books, including the definitive “Assassination on Embassy Row” on the unprecedented political murder in Washington D.C. of his colleagues Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt.
He will do a multi-media presentation of this issue based on his extensive research and personal experiences. This will include a parts of his documentary-in-progress on the “Cuban Five,” possible segments from his other award winning films, and current information based on his recent travels, including as one of the few North Americans to meet with both Fidel and Raul Castro recently in Cuba. For a list of his many awards, films & books, visit www.saullandau.com. Co-sponsored by Peace Action – WI, Milw. NLG, as well as the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, www.wicuba.org.
BIO from www.SaulLandau.com:
Saul Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau’s most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for “Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.” In 2008, the Chilean government presented him withthe Bernardo O’Higgins Award for his human rights work. Landau has written fourteen books including a book of poems, “My Dad Was Not Hamlet.” He received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt.
He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Gore Vidal says, “Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from”
Saul Landau’s Awards
* Bernardo O’Higgins Award for Human Rights
* Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award
* George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting
* First Amendment Award
* Emmy Award
* Roxie Award for Best Activist Video
* Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award
* Mannheim Film Festival: Critics’ First Prize
* Ann Arbor Film Festival First Prize
* Berlin Film Festival First Prize
* Best Director Award First American Indian Intercontinental Film Festival
* Golden Apple Award
* Best Picture North Carolina Smoky Mountain Film Festival
