The ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’ documentary has completed its tour of the United States with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis. The documentary, which was updated with new evidence and commentary on the recent Presidential elections in Sri Lanka, toured the US to raise awareness about the need to keep international pressure on Sri Lanka to secure justice and address the grievances of Tamils on the island.
The director of the film, Callum Macrae, whilst on tour addressed, senior policy makers from the State Department and a round table discussion organised by the Congressional Caucus on Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka, to stress the importance of not taking the international pressure off Sri Lanka to ensure that there was a long standing political solutions addressing injustices against Tamils.
The distribution and further screenings of the documentary can be supported using the 2015 No Fire Zone Impact Distribution Project page on Kickstarter.com.
The tour began with screenings of the film at New York’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism whilst traveling through the American University, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and ending at the University of San Diego.
The BAFTA nominated documentary documents how thousands of Tamil civilians were systematically shelled and deliberately denied adequate food and medicines during Sri Lanka’s final war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The distribution of the documentary can be supported using the 2015 No Fire Zone Impact Distribution Project page on Kickstarter.com.
Speaking to Tamil Guardian, Callum Macrae, said,
"We’ve got just three days left to run in the No Fire Zone Kickstarter funding campaign.
When we launched this appeal we said we needed a minimum of £10,000 to launch the new updated version of the film. Already we have reached £18,000. I am so grateful for this incredible generosity.
But the delay in the UN report makes our job of bringing the truth about what happened to the attention of the world is more important than ever. We need to keep up the pressure and every penny we are given allows us to campaign more effectively - and for longer.
Lets see if we can at least double the total - and perhaps raise even more."
The distribution and further screenings of the documentary can be supported using the 2015 No Fire Zone Impact Distribution Project page on Kickstarter.com.
The tour began with screenings of the film at New York’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism whilst traveling through the American University, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and ending at the University of San Diego.
The BAFTA nominated documentary documents how thousands of Tamil civilians were systematically shelled and deliberately denied adequate food and medicines during Sri Lanka’s final war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The distribution of the documentary can be supported using the 2015 No Fire Zone Impact Distribution Project page on Kickstarter.com.
Speaking to Tamil Guardian, Callum Macrae, said,
"We’ve got just three days left to run in the No Fire Zone Kickstarter funding campaign.
When we launched this appeal we said we needed a minimum of £10,000 to launch the new updated version of the film. Already we have reached £18,000. I am so grateful for this incredible generosity.
But the delay in the UN report makes our job of bringing the truth about what happened to the attention of the world is more important than ever. We need to keep up the pressure and every penny we are given allows us to campaign more effectively - and for longer.
Lets see if we can at least double the total - and perhaps raise even more."