From mrdjanm at MIT.EDU  Sat Apr 24 19:27:51 2004
From: mrdjanm at MIT.EDU (Mrdjan M Mladjan)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:27:51 -0400
Subject: [MOSTnews] Documentary film about Kosovo and Metohia at MIT.
Message-ID: <1082849271.408af7f789ee4@webmail.mit.edu>


NINOSLAV RANDJELOVIC, AN INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FILM
PRODUCER AND AUTHOR FROM SERBIA, TO PRESENT HIS LATEST
DOCUMENTARY AT MIT

KOSOVO AND METOHIA, 17-19 MARCH 2004: POGROM

Thursday, April 29, 2004 at 7:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building 1,
Room 1-190
33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA


(Cambridge, MA) As a result of the latest eruption of
violence in Kosovo & Metohia, March 17-20, 2004,
described by an UN officer as a "Kristallnacht," 28
people were killed, about 600 wounded, over 4,000
Serbs and other non-Albanians were forced to flee as
some 500 of their houses were set on fire and another
34 Christian churches and monasteries were destroyed
by Albanian extremists. A number of UN and NATO
officials have confirmed that this has been an
orchestrated terrorist action of ethnic cleansing
aimed at expelling the Serb population from the
province.

Ninoslav Randjelovic, an independent producer and
author of documentary films from Belgrade, Serbia &
Montenegro, has been a witness to the unfolding
tragedy of Kosovo & Metohia since 1998, recording many
of these events on film. On Thursday, April 29, at MIT
in Cambridge, he will present his latest exclusive
video footage from Kosovo & Metohia of some of the
consequences of the last acts of terrorism and ethnic
violence in a documentary titled ?Kosovo and Metohia,
17-19 March, 2004: Pogrom.? He will also present two
of his previous exclusive footages: ?Kosovo and
Metohia, 1998-2003? and ?The Days Made of Fear:
Kosovo, April-September, 2003?, surveying the
progressive deterioration of human rights conditions
in the province since the misrule of Slobodan
Milosevic to the mismanagement by the UN and NATO.

This material has been presented already at several
academic institutions in the United States and Europe,
including Columbia University in New York, Sorbone
University in Paris, France, and at the "Youth of
Europe" conference in Budapest, Hungary. Mr.
Randjelovic's documentary work has been featured also
on BBC and ARTe, and at international film festivals
in London, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Moscow and Belgrade.
Also, he was awarded for his work at the Raindance
film festival in London, 1999, and at the Golden
Knight film festival in Moscow, 2003. Following his
presentation at MIT, he will present this material at
the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington,
D.C., at Berkeley University in Berkeley, CA, and at
the upcoming Golden Knight film festival in Moscow,
Russia.

This event is co-organized by the Serbian-American
Alliance of New England (http://www.sane-boston.org) and by the MIT
Organization
of Serbian Students (http://web.mit.edu/most/www).