"The Abominable Crime" Screen at SASOD LGBT Film Festival
"The Abominable Crime" will screen at the SASOD LGBT Film Festival on Tuesday, June 24 in Guyana, the first screening for filmmaker Micah Fink's documentary in that South American nation.This...
View Article"The Abominable Crime" Screens at the Leeds Queer Film Festival
"The Abominable Crime," an award-winning documentary on homophobia in Jamaica, screens at the Leeds Queer Film Festival on Friday, July 11. Jamaica has the reputation of being one of the most violently...
View ArticleHuman Rights & HIV: Johns Hopkins-Pulitzer Center Symposium
Please join us on Thursday, October 9, for the 2014 Johns Hopkins-Pulitzer Center Symposium this year exploring human rights and the global fight against AIDS.Historic advances have inspired a vision...
View Article"The Abominable Crime" Launches 2014 Pulitzer Center-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
Please join us on Wednesday, October 8, for a screening of "The Abominable Crime," the Pulitzer Center-supported award-winning documentary that explores the culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the...
View Article"The Abominable Crime" Screens at Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival
"The Abominable Crime,"Micah Fink's award-winning documentary on homophobia in Jamaica, screens at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival on Wednesday, September 17 and Sunday, September 28.The film is...
View ArticleTrinidad and Tobago Film Festival Interview with Micah Fink
Lauren Shepherd"Going back to the beginning, I was raised to believe that people are people and you should look at them as such and not label them by stereotypes or simplistic ways of trying to...
View Article"The Abominable Crime" Wins Amnesty International Human Rights Prize
Lauren Shepherd"The Abominable Crime" won the 2014 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival's inaugural Amnesty International Human Rights Prize. In its award announcement, the Festival described filmmaker...
View ArticleLawyer in "The Abominable Crime" on the Fight for LGBT Rights in Jamaica
Lauren ShepherdIn advance of the 2014 Johns Hopkins-Pulitzer Center Symposium, Jamaican human rights lawyer Maurice Tomlinson reflected on the discriminatory laws against the LGBT community and...
View ArticleNew Report: LGBT Jamaicans “Not Safe at Home”
On October 21, prominent human rights group Human Rights Watch released a report detailing “intolerable levels of violence” against sexual and gender minorities in Jamaica.Framed by the story of Dwayne...
View Article"The Abominable Crime" Screening/Discussion at FCAA's 2014 AIDS Philanthropy...
Join us for a screening of "The Abominable Crime" on Monday, December 8, in Washington, DC, at the 2014 Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA) AIDS Philanthropy Summit.Filmmaker Micah Fink and human...
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