UNITED NATIONS VIDEOS WIN INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
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UNITED NATIONS VIDEOS WIN INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
19970306 The United Nations video programme "Defying the Odds" has won an International Silver Medal in the prestigious New York Festivals. The programme was selected from over 2,000 entries from around the world."Defying the Odds" is a 29-minute documentary on the lives of four women of diverse ages and backgrounds who question age-old traditions as they adopt new roles in their respective societies.
These four women are the following: an internationally renowned lawyer from Pakistan speaks out against the challenges of working in a male-dominated profession; a single parent in Guatemala, Sandra, is a textile worker who successfully rallies her co-workers in the factory to admission in the union; a Latvian theatre director, Mara, juggles professional and parental responsibilities in a newly formed nation; and, the fourth woman, is an immigrant from Hong Kong who, while raising her young daughter, cares for an ailing mother and at the same time runs for and wins an election in her newly adopted homeland, Canada.
Another United Nations video programme, "The Menace of Land-mines", has won a finalist certificate, also in the New York Festivals.
Throughout the years, United Nations films and videos have won several international awards. In recent times, other video programmes have won the Golden Eagle Cine Award as well as the Telly Award.
For further information on these and other videos, contact the Audio- Visual Promotion and Distribution Unit, Room S-805A, tel.: (212) 963-1807.
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