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Presenting\u00a0the Pulitzer Center Film Festival “Global Crises, Human Stories”<\/b>\u2013\u2013a week-long celebration of reporting from around the world\u2013\u2013featuring feature-length documentary films and shorts by award-winning Pulitzer Center journalists. The festival opens Thursday, (so get your ticket today!!)<\/b> at 7 pm. with the Washington, DC premiere of “The Abominable Crime,”<\/a> a film about the deadly consequences of homophobia in Jamaica, and the fight for freedom, security, and understanding. Evening includes a discussion with director Micah Fink and Maurice Tomlinson, whose story is told in the film. This premiere is free but reservations required at rsvp@pulitzercenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All films present heartbreaking stories of struggle and injustice that rarely receive the attention they deserve\u2013\u2013but also stories of hope<\/b>, redemption<\/b> and justice<\/b> in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. Buy your ticket today to reserve your seat for this upcoming week!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No Fire Zone<\/b>: The true story of war crimes committed at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. Directed by Callum Macrae.<\/p>\n Outlawed in Pakistan<\/b>: A rape victim’s odyssey through her country’s flawed justice system. Directed by Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann.<\/p>\n Seeds of Hope<\/b>:One woman shines a beacon of hope to dispel the despair of women survivors of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Directed by Fiona Lloyd-Davies.<\/p>\n Pulitzer Center Photojournalist Shorts<\/b>: A special shorts program featuring work by award-winning photojournalists including Shiho Fukada, Stephanie Sinclair, Dominic Bracco II, Larry C. Price, Andre Lambertson, Joshua Cogan, and Allison Shelley.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tickets required for other films during the festival, which runs through September 26, general admission is $5, $3 for students<\/span><\/b> and seniors. All screenings at the West End Cinema. Full schedule is available at: http:\/\/bit.ly\/15JPqfV[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Presenting\u00a0the Pulitzer Center Film Festival “Global Crises, Human Stories”\u2013\u2013a week-long celebration of reporting from around the world\u2013\u2013featuring feature-length documentary films and shorts by award-winning Pulitzer Center journalists. The festival opens Thursday, (so get your ticket today!!) at 7 pm. with the Washington, DC premiere of “The Abominable Crime,” a film about the deadly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}