Film Screening, Reception, and Q&A, "Glass Closet"

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Monday, August 30, 2010 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
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St. Thomas' Parish Episcopal Church

Submitted by Andrea on August 26, 2010 - 10:04pm
Venue Address: 
1772 Church Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
United States
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The Pulitzer Center and St. Thomas' Parish present

Glass Closet: Homophobia, Violence and the Spread of HIV in Jamaica

 a film screening and Q & A with Lisa Biagiotti

 

 

The Glass Closet: Sex, Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, a reporting project by Micah Fink and Gabrielle Weiss, was produced in partnership with WNET's Worldfocus program and correspondant Lisa Biagiotti. The project explores the effects of homophobia on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Jamaica and includes four short documentary films that were broadcast on Worldfocus.

 

The Glass Closet videos will be screened at St. Thomas' Parish in Washington, DC, on Monday, August 30. A discussion and Q&A with Lisa Biagiotti will follow.

 

6:30 p.m. - Reception
7:00 p.m. - Screening

 

St. Thomas' Parish Episcopal Church
1772 Church Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

 

Metro: Dupont Circle, on the Red Line

 

RSVP requested - rsvp(at)pulitzercenter.org

 

Lisa Biagiotti is an independent multimedia journalist. She recently produced a documentary on toilets and open defecation in India and Indonesia for Current TV’s Vanguard documentary series. Lisa has produced and edited short-form videos and weekly radio shows for Worldfocus — a daily public television news program and website. She was awarded the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the international television category and was nominated for a national news Emmy Award for the videos she produced on the crisis in Congo. Lisa worked with the Pulitzer Center as a Worldfocus correspondent to produce "The Glass Closet: HIV/AIDS in Jamaica." Learn more at http://lisabiagiotti.com/

 

The Glass Closet is part of the Pulitzer Center's in-depth reporting on HIV in the Caribbean, which also includes current work in Haiti and the Emmy award-winning project HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica.

 

The Pulitzer Center promotes in-depth engagement with global affairs through its sponsorship of quality international journalism across all media platforms and an innovative program of outreach and education. To learn more visit www.pulitzercenter.org

 

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