Movie Night: Militia Man

You are warmly invited to the screening of the movie Milia Man, presented by Essex Transnational Justice network and Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation

Join us for the film screening and a discussion with Director Lisa Clifford.

Free pizza and drinks will be available.

About the movie:

When the International Criminal Court in the Hague decided that 23-year-old Germain Katanga was one of the people most responsible for war crimes in northeastern Congo, a complex decade-long legal process unfolded with a budget in the millions. Militia Man explores a flawed war crimes trial, as seen through the eyes of Katanga, his lawyers and a family that survived a terrible massacre.

It reveals a court that remains well-funded and largely unchallenged despite failing to deliver justice and adequate reparations to restart shattered lives. After serving eight years in The Hague, a shocking development awaited Katanga in Congo which raised further questions about the competence of the court.

About the speaker:

Lisa Clifford is a freelance print journalist who has recently moved into documentary making and aspires to use the power of film to tell untold stories of people living in places where the rule of law has broken down. She also teaches journalists in countries recovering (or still embroiled) in conflicts such as Libya, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

She copy edits for a variety of NGOs and individuals; recently finished a writers' training for interns at the Somalia think tank Heritage Institute for Policy Studies; and wrote a series of reports for the Ethical Journalism Network on media in Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Georgia