The Roeper School Continues 2011/2012 Amnesty/Diversity Film Series With Special Screening Of “Breaking the Silence: Inside Burma's Resistance"

The Roeper School (Roeper), a co-educational day school for gifted children, will be hosting a screening of “Breaking the Silence: Inside Burma's Resistance,” as part of the school’s 2011/2012 Amnesty/Diversity Film Series,” on March 24, 2012. 

The film screening is open to the public and will be shown at 7:30 pm on Saturday, March 24th in the R. Dean Acheson Theater on Roeper’s Middle/Upper School campus, located at 1051 Oakland Avenue in Birmingham, Mich.

“Breaking the Silence: Inside Burma's Resistance,” is an award-winning, documentary film directed by Pierre Mignault and Hélène Magny.  In order to create the film, the Quebec-based filmmakers went undercover, entering one of Burma's most dangerous zones, the heart of the Karen Nation, where civil war has been waging for more than 60 years. In this region of the country, where very few foreigners have dared to venture, the filmmakers meet displaced people hiding in the jungle to avoid forced relocation by the country’s military regime. “Breaking the Silence: Inside Burma's Resistance,” demonstrates the strength of the Burmese people through their opposition to one of the world's worst dictatorships, disclosing the secret networks of militants fighting along the Thai border.

Admission to the film is free.  Any donations made at the screening will be gratefully accepted to benefit Roeper’s Amnesty International program, which is managed by Roeper students.

The final film in Roeper’s 2011/2012 Amnesty/Diversity Film Series is “A World Without Water, “ which will be shown on May 5, 2012.

Founded in 1941, The Roeper School is a uniquely personalized, co-educational school for gifted and talented children in preschool through grade 12 from over 60 communities in southeast Michigan. With campuses in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Roeper was conceived on founding principles that recognize the power of education, choice and self-expression, and the transformative impact these principles have on young minds.