The Wesleyan Community, along with the rest of the country, will now have to wait until winter break to see the already acclaimed “Hotel Rwanda.” On Dec. 3, Wesleyan’s Amnesty International group announced that the Connecticut premiere of the United Artists movie would be held in the Center for Film Studies this Friday. Due to security concerns that the offices of Film Studies, Public Safety and Student Activities and Leadership were not able to negotiate with United Artists, the advance screening has been cancelled.
Amnesty International groups at Harvard, Cornell and Columbia will still be screening the movie as part of International Human Rights Day. A true story about Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who saved 1268 people during the Rwandan genocide, the movie is being used in some respects to open discourse on the contemporary situation in Sudan. It is possible that the Film Studies Department will bring the film to campus as soon as they are legally able to do so.
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