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Screen/Society--Duke Global Health Film Festival--"Zika"

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Monday, February 27, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Panel and Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker Debora Diniz!
Duke Global Health Film Festival

Film Screening: "Zika" (International Women's Health Coalition & Debora Diniz, 2016, 30 min, Brazil, in Portuguese w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital) / They came from remote areas of Paraíba, a state in northeastern Brazil. They are everyday women and doctors. Pregnancy is a time of waiting and discovery. Together, they are moving science forward and learning how to survive the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil. / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tqt0jaoG0 / Panel Speakers: - Kearsley Stewart, Duke Global Health Institute, Chair;
- Debora Diniz, University of Brasilia (Anthropology and Law), Anis: Institute for Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender, International Women's Health Coalition, and filmmaker;
- Jonathan Katz, Freelance journalist, author of "The Big Truck That Went By", and Director, FHI Media and Journalism Initiative; - Kia Caldwell, UNC-Chapel Hill, African, African-American and Diaspora Studies

Contact: Hank Okazaki