Returned Peace Corps
Volunteers Film Festival
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Home of films reflecting the Peace Corps ideals: Exploring cultures, celebrating diversity, social service, and caring for the Other.
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Peace Corps Celebrates its 45th Anniversary Feb. 27 -- March 5, 2006
RPCV Films plans to work with Peace Corps officials to screen works created by RPCVs or PCVs, bringing the world to Americans, thus meeting PC's third goal.
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| Views of the 2005 film festival |
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| Viewers had an opportunity to ask questions of the filmmakers or their representatives after each screening. |
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| Jimisir's filmmaker Claude von Roesgen, left, explains a point as the film's main subject, Jim Parks, and the PC's Nepali education director look on |
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| RPCV-Washington members at the registration desk |
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Entries for the 2005 festival have closed.
Know of other films made by RPCVs? We'd like to create a database of all films made by RPCVs. Please tell us all you know about such films -- and pass the word.
Write to: RPCVFF@RPCVFILMS.com
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Some of the films featured in the 2005 film festival were:
John Kennedy Speaks to Peace Corps volunteers
10 minutes; 1962, National Archives.
"Peace Corps gives us an opportunity to emphasize a different aspect of the American character" at a time when the United States is seen as a "militaristic" and a "materialist" power. -- JFK |
| Most of the films selected for this year's festival were made by RPCVs or are about serving volunteers |
Jimisir;
55 minutes; Producer and Director: Clude von Roesgen:
Compelling story of James Park’s Peace Corps service in a remote village of Nepal. This film has it all: Local customs (the good and the bad), the art of kerosene lamp maintenance, dining by hand, views of the Himalayas an extracurricular sanitation project and a sweet farewell party. Required viewing for anyone considering Peace Corps service, or those who have already served in Nepal. Entertaining and educational.
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Daughters and Sons – Preventing: Child trafficking in the Golden Triangle.
Producers: Jane McBride / Patricia Zinkowski; 25 Minutes, Director: Sarah Feinbloom
This is a poignant documentary spotlighting the heroic efforts of a Thai human rights activist, Sompop Jantraka, to combat the plague of child sex slavery. Jantraka runs an education program for the most vulnerable girls in an impoverished, northern border town, where many of the traffickers operate. Jantraka says his Peace Corps English teacher was the mentor who helped him see purpose in his life.
Meet Khai, Saifon and Tom, three children who live at the education center where they are being given opportunities to rebuild their lives. Compelling and insightful.
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Mujaan (The Craftsman)
50 minutes; producer and director: Chris McKee
"Alone in the Wilderness," Mongolian style. Sukhe builds a "gir," a traditional nomadic home, using only hand tools and the nomadic house-building heritage passed down to him. Excellent commentary by Chris provides perspective and additional insights.
Giving Back: the Native Returns
52 minutes; Producer and director: Usama Khalidi
This film documents the humanitarian work of three Indian Americans who had achieved a high degree of success in American industry. They have now devoted their lives much of their wealth to educating impoverished youth in rural areas, or to building democratic institutions at the grassroots level, thus empowering citizens.
I'll Bring My Lobster
20 minutes; Producer: Courtney Kirkbride
This film presents glimpses of Vanuatu, a South China Sea island paradise, where a California woman is visiting her twin sister who is serving in the Peace Corps.
Also on screen will be several other exciting films .
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Bridges Between Cultures
25 minutes, English; Producer: Dan Cahill
In the wake of September 11, 2001, a group of RPCVs returned to Morocco, the country of their service, and reacquainted themselves with the warmth which Moroccans display toward Americans at a people-to people level.
Mitarusu Sapukai (Crying Out: The Youth of Coronel Oviedo) ; 25 min.; Director: Guy Mossman
Alcohol is expensive, but drinking to excess is the most fun the teenagers in the Paraguayan town of Coronel Oviedo can find with the usual, unintended results: fractured relationships, unwanted pregnancies, drunkdriving deaths. A serious subject seen and told from the perspective of young people themselves.
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