March 1, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Courtney Dahl
(805) 784-0508
Filmmaker Screening ‘Taliban Country’ at Cal Poly March 9
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Award winning investigative reporter and filmmaker
Carmela Baranowska will offer a free screening of her film "Taliban
Country" at Cal Poly on Wednesday, March 9, sponsored by the
university’s Progressive Student Alliance club.
The screening will begin at 7 p.m. in the Orfalea College of Business
Rotunda (Building 3, Room 213). Metered parking is available on
California Boulevard.
Between May and June 2004, Baranowska, an investigative reporter
whose
work has won the Walkley Award, was embedded with U.S. Marines in
one of
the most dangerous and remote parts of Afghanistan, beyond the reach
of
United Nations and aid agencies.
Frustrated by the limitations imposed on what she could report,
Baranowska decided to travel back to Oruzgon Province independently
of
the U.S. Marines and Afghan militia that she had journeyed with
up to
that point. Western media outlets reported that she had been kidnapped
by the Taliban, a 'fact' the documentary dispels.
Baranowska's footage offers disturbing first-person accounts of
the
treatment being dealt Afghans by U.S. Marines in the war on terror
and
has led to the opening of two U.S. military investigations. For
more
information on the film visit www.talibancountry.com.
For more information contact the Progressive Student Alliance contact
the Cal Poly club at PSAcapoly@gmail.com
or (805) 784-0508
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