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Filmmaker Callum Macrae Ends U.S. Tour with "No Fire Zone" at University of...

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae visits the University of San Diego on Wednesday, February 11 as he winds up his U.S. tour with the Pulitzer Center. While on campus, Macrae screens his...

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Filmmaker Callum Macrae Visits CUNY Graduate School of Journalism for Focus...

Award-winning filmmaker Callum Macrae visits CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism on Monday, February 2, for the screening of his documentary No Fire Zone.His investigation into the final days of the...

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No Fire Zone Screening: Sri Lankan Civil War Documentary with Filmmaker...

Award-winning filmmaker Callum Macrae visits Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) on Monday, February 2, for a screening of his documentary No Fire Zone. His...

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Callum Macrae US Tour: No Fire Zone

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae launches his U.S. tour, visiting college campuses from New York City to San Diego, February 2 to the 11. He will screen his film, No Fire Zone, and...

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A Stunning Defeat in Sri Lanka

Two months ago it seemed unimaginable, but last week it happened. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who remained enormously popular among the country’s Sinhalese majority despite evidence that he...

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Callum Macrae on Human Rights Violations During Sri Lankan Civil War

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae visits Washington University in St. Louis on Monday, February 9, as part of his two-week, multi-city Pulitzer Center-organized U.S. visit. His film No...

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'No Fire Zone' Screening, Student Fellows Session During Filmmaker's SIUC Visit

Documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae visits Southern Illinois University Carbondale on Tuesday, February 10, to show his film No Fire Zone, and talk about his investigation into human rights abuses...

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Sri Lanka: ‘Take Advantage of Bitterly Disappointing UN Deferral’

Callum MacraePulitzer Center grantee Callum Macrae, director of "No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka" discusses the need for justice and accountability in this opinion piece for the...

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Sri Lanka: Tamil Mother Is Refused Bail Despite Pleas to President

Callum MacraeIt should have been a great opportunity for the new Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena—on the eve of his visit to the UK—to show the international community that his government is...

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Callum Macrae on BBC World Service to discuss 'No Fire Zone'

Callum MacraeAward-winning documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae talks on BBC World Service about his documentary film "No Fire Zone," which tells the story of the final 138 days of the 26-year Sri Lanka...

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Stalling Justice in Sri Lanka

Callum MacraeThe timetable may be slipping, but still Sri Lanka’s new government has been hailed for arresting the country’s rapid descent into the quagmire of corruption, repression and Sinhala ethnic...

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'Tortured' UK Asylum Seeker Gets Deportation Reprieve

Callum MacraeA Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker who claims to have suffered extensive torture before escaping to the UK has won a last minute reprieve just hours before he was due to be forcibly deported...

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Sri Lanka’s Challenge: An Interview with the Director of No Fire Zone

Rarely does a film launch take place at Britain’s House of Commons, but there seemed no more appropriate venue for the official release last week of the Sinhala translation of the politically charged...

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Sri Lanka Massacred Tens of Thousands of Tamils While the World Looked Away

Callum MacraeTo the Tamils of northeast Sri Lanka and to much of their global diaspora, Isaipriya was a star: a presenter and actress who came to symbolize the Tamil resistance.She was beautiful, and...

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Film Screening of 'Sri Lanka: The Search for Justice'

Join filmmaker Callum Macrae on Friday, Sept. 11, for a New York screening of Sri Lanka: The Search for Justice, his latest documentary on the final bloody days of the Sri Lankan civil war. The...

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Filmmaker Callum Macrae at Press Briefing on 'Sri Lanka: Search for Justice'

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) hosts award-winning filmmaker Callum Macrae in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at a press briefing and screening of his latest film Sri Lanka: The Search for...

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America's Sri Lankan Dilemma

Callum MacraeMangala Samaraweera, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, is a persuasive and very probably sincere man. On Monday, he delivered a keynote speech to the opening session of the UN Human Rights...

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