Inviolable—The Fight for Human Rights takes stock seventy years after the Declaration for Human Rights was written. Do countries value what has been a great vision after World War II? From China to Guatemala, from Canada to Kenya, from Greece to Germany, from Turkey to the United States the documentary shows people who are affected by the actions of their governments or corporations. But the film highlights that so many people are tirelessly fighting for human rights. Portraying a nurse in Africa, a student leader in Hong Kong, an environmental activist in Central America, a blind barefoot lawyer from China, a journalist in Istanbul - these people give hope that the fight, if not yet won, is worth the struggle. Brilliant footage and interviews with Kenneth Roth from “Human Rights Watch,” former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and German President Joachim Gauck.
Biography:
Angela Andersen is a journalist, filmmaker, and director. On her first assignment for ZDF German TV Angela Andersen traveled to Thailand, South Korea, and the US Pacific Command to create a portrait of America Almighty. She partnered with ZDF anchor Claus Kleber on several projects, including this documentary on President George Bush’s Texas and Washington DC. Other documentaries for ZDF followed, among them America’s Crusade - Afghanistan, The Kennedys, India – Unstoppable, and the three-part documentary The Bomb, which won an award for Best Documentary that year. She directed and was the co-author of the documentaries Hunger and Durst/Thirst for arte, which won the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis for Best Documentary that year. Brave New World on Silicon Valley was nominated in Germany for best tv-journalism and won the Georg von Holtzbrinck Preis. She has worked as a freelance producer and co-author on countless news stories and documentaries among them Cuba—A Revolution without Hope, Day of Terror—September 11, Flying Abortionists, and Hurricane Floyd, PTSD inflicted veterans. For many years she has been the co-owner for the TV-production company Stories Unlimited Inc., producing twenty-five half-hour documentaries on social-political subjects as death row in Texas or women and guns.
