[CCC] FW: AFGHANISTAN: PEACEMAKING IN PROGRESS, film at Canada House, 1 June

[Hank Liao]

Dear all,

A bit short notice, just received this: The film AFGHANISTAN: 
PEACEMAKING IN PROGRESS 
<http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=HMNKMXMDIVGTBRRZCIDQ&li=iq&src=email&trk=aei2> 
is showing at Canada House in London Thursday evening, 1 June at 7pm. 
Details below, incl for booking. The film-maker may be there. You need 
to book today, cheers,
Hank

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	Canadian High Commission
*Location*: 	Canada House
Trafalgar Square, London, --
*When*: 	Thursday, June 1, 7:00pm
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ADMISSION IS FREE, BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL.

PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR REPLY BELOW. Tickets are not available through 
the Cine-Club.

Tickets (on a first come first served basis) must be reserved directly 
from marylou.finlan at international.gc.ca by Wed 31st.

After nearly three decades of reporting from Afghanistan, journalist 
Arthur Kent has returned to document Canada’s current military mission 
in the war-ravaged country.

His new 60-minute documentary, AFGHANISTAN: Peacemaking In Progress, 
will be screened at special public forum presentations. Kent will host 
the events and answer questions from the audience.

“The Afghans are striving for peace, despite attempts by the Taliban and 
al Qaeda to throw the process of rebuilding the country into reverse,” 
explains Kent, a two-time Emmy Award winner who has reported 
international news for major Canadian, American and British television 
networks and print publications.

“I’ve gone back to see what progress the Afghan people are making, and 
whether Canada and its western allies have a strategy for finally 
bringing the war to an end.”

“What I discovered both surprised and encouraged me. This will be a 
crucial, perhaps defining, year for Afghanistan and the world community. 
I hope that people will come to see my film and witness the spectacle 
for themselves.”

Financed and produced by Kent’s Fast Forward Films Limited of London, 
and Lookout Communications Ltd. of Calgary, AFGHANISTAN: Peacemaking In 
Progress is an entirely independent project. Audiences will go on patrol 
with Canadian General David Fraser and his troops, and take to the skies 
over Taliban territory with U.S. Air Force warplanes and Army helicopters.

Kent reunites with Afghans he filmed during the Soviet occupation in the 
1980s, including two inspiring individuals currently serving in 
President Hamid Karzai’s cabinet. As well, a special visit with a man 
Kent calls “a civilian hero of the Afghan wars” reveals that however 
often the world might call Afghanistan and its people down, they can 
never be counted out.

Arthur Kent was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and raised in Calgary. He 
studied journalism and history at Carleton University in Ottawa, then 
took a posting as Alberta correspondent for CBC's The National. Since 
then, he has specialized in reporting world affairs. He filmed his first 
independent documentary in Afghanistan in 1980.

Kent has reported from Afghanistan for CBC News and MAN ALIVE, NBC, BBC 
and The History Channel, and for publications including The Observer of 
London, Maclean’s and The Calgary Herald. He has photographed and 
interviewed many of the personalities who have dominated the Afghan 
stage over the years, and has witnessed every phase of the conflict, 
from the Soviet occupation and the civil war that followed, to the 
U.S.-led campaign to oust the Taliban.

6:45 PM for 7:00pm.


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Hank Liao
Machine Intelligence Lab, Research Student
Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
+44 (0)1223 332754 W
hank at cantab.net      http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hl251/