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News Advisory:
2009 ABA Silver Gavel-Winning Film "The Response" to be Discussed in Live Webcast
CHICAGO, June 1, 2009 – Sig Libowitz, writer/producer/actor (and lawyer) will discuss his 2009 ABA Silver Gavel Award-winning film, “The Response,” a courtroom drama based on actual transcripts of the Guantanamo military tribunals, in a live Webcast as part of the American Bar Association Public Program Series Tues. June 2.
The program will be moderated by Edward Adams, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal.
WHO
Sig Libowitz, writer/producer/actor
WHAT
American Bar Association Public Program Series: “Meet the Filmmaker of ‘The Response," Guantanamo Courtroom Drama: Q&A with Sig Libowitz
WHERE
ABA headquarters
321 N. Clark St.
21st floor boardrooms
Chicago
WHEN
Tues. June 2
5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
HOW
Watch the live Q & A session with Libowitz by going to www.abanet.org/publiced/programseries/live.shtml at 5:45 PM CT, Tues. June 2
After June 2, the webcast will be available at http://www.abanet.org/publiced/programseries/archive.shtml
Brief film clips may be viewed anytime at: http://www.theresponsemovie.com/The_Response_Movie/Film_Clips_%26_Videos.html.
For more information, go to http://www.abanet.org/publiced/programseries/invite.shtml
With more than 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.
The annual Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts are presented by the ABA Division for Public Education to recognize works from communications media that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public’s understanding of the law and the legal system
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