NEW YORK – The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will screen the new documentary film Access to the Danger Zone from May 5 to 9 in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas to engage the public in conversation about the challenges of delivering aid in conflict zones.
Narrated by Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Access to the Danger Zone explores the strategies that humanitarian organizations use to reach people in need in the midst of armed conflicts. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in war zones in Afghanistan, Somalia and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011 and 2012.
The screenings are free, open to the public and fully accessible. Each screening will be followed by a Q. & A. session with Texas-based medical and non-medical personnel who have worked internationally with Doctors Without Borders.
Doctors Without Borders provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 70 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care or natural disasters. In 1999, Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Over the last five years, 44 Texans have worked with Doctors Without Borders in 31 countries, including Nigeria, South Sudan and Sri Lanka.
The Dallas screening is May 9 at 7 p.m. at the Angelika Film Center at the Mockingbird Station in Dallas. The screening is free, for more info and a link to RSVP are online at www.doctorswithoutborders.org/texas.
