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EPIIC Co-Presents the Boston Premier of Steven Silver's
The Last Just Man
at Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival
This event took place Saturday, January 25th at 4pm and 6pm
at the International Institute of Boston
All tickets were $9
The film was also shown at 7pm and 9pm
Wednesday, January 29th
at Coolidge Corner Threatre
One Milk Street
Boston, MA 02109
Downtown Crossing, Park Street, or State Street T Stops
It was the worst massacre since the Second World War. In just 100 days,
800,000 Rwandans were killed by machete and machinegun -- and it all
happened on the watch of Canadian Gen. Romeo Dallaire. The LAST JUST MAN shows a haunted Dallaire still questioning if he
could have done more to try and stop the 1994 genocide. Dallaire, the leader of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, only
saw the best when he arrived in Rwanda in 1993. A peace treaty between warring tribes had been signed and he was
preparing to put a peacekeeping force in place to ensure calm. But in just a few months, peacekeeping would turn into an
offensive. Dallaire tried frantically to tell the United Nations, and the world, what was about to happen. In the end, Dallaire
failed to persuade the United Nations and others to intervene in time. As a result, Dallaire and the survivors of the genocide
are forced to live with the memory of what could have been. Using a combination of intense interview footage and subtle
scenes from Rwanda, Silver succeeds in recreating the tension of those months and the emotions that flooded Dallaire's mind
as he attempted to stop a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. To read more about the director and the film, please visit
the traveling festival section of our site.
Click here for more information on Human Rights Watch or call 212-290-4700.
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