Doctors Without Borders in Minneapolis:
"Access to the Danger Zone" Film Screening
What: "Access to the Danger Zone" Film Screening followed by Q. & A.
When: Wednesday, June 12, at 7 p.m.
Where: Lagoon Cinema, 1320 Lagoon Avenue, Minneapolis
Cost: Free
Narrated by Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis, the new documentary "Access to the Danger Zone" explores the strategies that humanitarian organizations use to reach people in need in the midst of armed conflicts. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in war zones in Afghanistan, Somalia and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011 and 2012. (View trailer.)
The screening will be followed by a Q. & A. session with Minnesota-based medical and non-medical personnel who have worked internationally with Doctors Without Borders. Speakers will include Dr. Sarah Kesler, a Minneapolis physician who has worked with Doctors Without Borders in Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Chad and the Philippines, and Dr. Joseph Keenan, a Minneapolis physician who has worked with Doctors Without Borders in Nigeria and South Sudan.
Doctors Without Borders provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 70 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care or natural disasters. In 1999, Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Over the last five years, Minnesota residents have worked with Doctors Without Borders in a total of 20 countries.
The screening is free, open to the public and fully accessible. More information is available online at: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/minneapolis.
Tim Shenk
Press Officer
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
333 Seventh Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001
Tel: +1 212.763.5764
Cell: +1 646.206.9387
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http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
