At the 2008 ACLU Membership Conference, Lear Center Deputy Director Johanna Blakley moderated a panel of leading artists and industry professionals for a conversation about how rights on camera can be a source of both entertainment and information and a launching pad for social action.
What role do film, television and the arts play in the national dialogue on civil liberties? Does the way vital civil liberties issues are addressed on screen, stage, canvas and the page influence how they are discussed around the dinner table?
The panel featured filmmakers Alex Gibney (2008 Academy Award - Taxi to the Dark Side), Ricki Stern (The Trials of Darryl Hunt), Peter Gilbert (At the Death House Door), Rob Moss (Secrecy), actor Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay), Anjuli Verma (ACLU Drug Law Reform Project) and acclaimed poet and playwright Ariel Dorfman (Death and the Maiden). For more details, visit the ACLU Rights / Camera / Action Web site .
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