Metro TeenAIDS Co-sponsors East Coast Premiere Screenings of DARLING: THE PIETER-DIRK UYS STORY
presented by the Washington Jewish Film Festival December 11 & 12
With Special Guest Director Julian Shaw

The 19th Washington Jewish Film Festival: An Exhibition of International Cinema presents 59 features, documentaries and shorts from 10 countries, in seven venues, during the December 4 – 14, 11-day Festival.  This year, Metro TeenAIDS is co-sponsoring the East Coast Premiere of the powerful documentary Darling: The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story, (Thursday, December 11, 7:45 pm, Washington DCJCC’s Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater & Friday, December 12, 1 pm, Goethe-Institut Washington), with director Julian Shaw in attendance.

DARLING: THE PIETER-DIRK UYS STORY (Australia, 2007, video, 54 minutes, English. Director: Julian Shaw)  “I am an Afrikaner Jew!” declares one of the film’s stars, social reformer and satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys. The other star is the director, Australian Julian Shaw, who, at age 15, saw a performance by Uys that changed his life. Uys, the well-known and outspoken opponent of apartheid, has taken up the fight against AIDS—calling it South Africa’s “new” apartheid—and polarized the country. After that fateful show, Shaw asked the entertainer if he would be the subject of a documentary, and Uys agreed, although he never really thought he’d hear from the teenager again. The result is this intimate and captivating portrait of a man with enormous talent, heart and dedication. Uys has presented his “AIDS awareness entertainment” to over a million schoolchildren in his country, demonstrating that with honesty and a good dose of humor, youth can, in fact, get them the life-saving information about AIDS that they desperately need. The Embassy of Australia is also a co-sponsor of this film.

For Festival Catalog: The festival catalog will be available at the Washington DCJCC and other fest venues and around the DC Metro area. The catalog can also be downloaded from the web site wjff.org.

Ticket prices: Opening and Closing Nights: $20 – film plus party; $10 evenings & weekends; $6 weekdays (before 6 p.m.); Seniors & Students receive $1 discount off regular ticket price except for opening and closing night tickets.   Tickets go on sale November 19. No service charge; $1.50 per film handling fee.

To Order Tickets: visit boxofficetickets.com or call 800-494-8497.
For information: wjff.org or call 202-777-3231.

The 19th Washington Jewish Film Festival: An Exhibition of International Cinema (Dec 4 – 14) is presented by the Washington DCJCC’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts; co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and Washington Jewish Week; and supported in part by grants from the United Jewish Endowment Fund and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

19th Washington Jewish Film Festival: December 4 – 14
59 Films * 10 Countries * 7 Venues * 11 Days