MONTREAL/February 7, 2006—
On Thursday, February 9, Concordia's Peace and Conflict Resolution lecture series will present the film, Night Stop, directed by Licinio Azevedo. It's one of the films in the sub-series Exploring Conflict and its Resolution on the African Continent through Film.
Night Stop is part of Steps for the Future a groundbreaking series of films on AIDS in Southern Africa. In central Mozambique lies the Corridor of Death, a long-distance trucking route, where more than 30% of the population is HIV+. Shot mostly at night, Night Stop charts a series of interwoven stories about the lives of women who wait for the arrival of truck drivers at an overnight trucking station. Three groups of sex workers, the Calamities, the Students and the Founding Members, vie for business, disappearing into the drivers' trucks, which are cheaper than renting rooms. In this world, even though condoms are distributed free by activists, you can earn more by having unprotected sex.
The film will be shown at 6:45 p.m. in room H-110, of the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). It will be followed by a response with Dr. Lillian Robinson, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University and conclude with an open discussion session.
For more information about this event, contact Dr. Andrew Ivaska at (514) 848-2424 ext. 2419, or Dr. Leander Schneider at (514)848-2424, ext. 5601.
About the sub-series Exploring Conflict and Its Resolution on the African Continent through Film, visit: http://peace.concordia.ca.
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
