Coexist-Documentary Film Outreach Project

News & Awards

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HONORS

Humanity Explored 2012- Official Selection

Social Change Film Festival 2012- Official Selection

Show Me Justice Film Festival 2011-Official Selection

I Will Tell International Film Festival 2011-Official Selection

Central Florida Film Festival 2011-Official Selection

Downtown Boca Film Festival 2011-Official Selection

African Movie Academy Awards-Best Documentary Nominee

Africa World Documentary Film Festival 2011-Official Selection

Artivist Film Festival 2010-Official Selection

Metropolitan Film Festival of New York 2010-Honorable Mention

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NEWS

February 1, 2013

Film teaches tolerance (Tiffin, OH Advertiser Tribune article)

January 31, 2013

AHS Ninth Graders React to Coexist and Become Part of Anti-bullying Efforts (Superintendent’s Newsletter January 2013 PDF)

January 30, 2013

Students learn how to “Coexist” (Sandusky, OH Register article-PDF)

January 21, 2013

This Little Parent Stayed Home: Coexist: Bridging the divide between us and them (podcast).

January 17, 2013

January 16, 2013

UF grad creates anti-bullying campaign (Florida Alligator article)

January 11, 2013

Arlington students star in new anti-bullying documentary (WBZ-TV CBS Boston article)

January 10, 2013

UMass graduate Mishy Lesser uses film set in Rwanda to teach about violence (Springfield Republican)

November 27, 2012

 Coexist Selected to Humanity Explored Film Festival

OCTOBER 22,  2012

Coexist Selected to Social Change Film Festival

October 20, 2012

Del Dios Middle School

One of the first things teachers tell me is that students who are the children of undocumented workers often repeat the refrain, “I’m not going to college. I’m Mexican.”- Continue reading Dr.Mishy Lesser’s Blog here

NOVEMBER 2011

Video Librarian review of Coexist (PDF download)

OCTOBER 2011

Coexist workshop featured by FAU’s Center for Holocaust & Human Rights Education (PDF download)

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Blog by SURF (Survivors Fund) on Coexist Panel in London

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Gardner News Article-”Coexist filmmaker seeks to share hard-earned lessons of Rwandan genocide” (PDF download)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

London School of Economics & Political Science Blog

AUGUST 11, 2011

Coexist in the Boston Globe

MAY 23, 2011

Nationally syndicated radio interview with Coexist Director Adam Mazo and Learning Director Dr. Mishy Lesser. You can listen now on the Voices of Our World site.

MARCH 7, 2011

Examiner.com article on Coexist screening at the international Mediators Beyond Borders Conference at UCLA

MARCH 1, 2011

Steven Hassan writes in the Huffington Post, “The Coexist documentary and its Viewer’s Guide should become part of a mandated international educational curriculum”

DECEMBER 15, 2010

A Lowell Sun article detailing a Coexist screening workshop for 8th graders in Tyngsboro

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Winchester Star Article Previewing Coexist Screening Event (PDF)(Web link)

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

You can watch the post-screening discussion from the Artivist Film Festival with Director Adam Mazo and representatives from 2 other films screened in the same block as Coexist:

Artivist Post-Viewing Discussion Part 1, Artivist Post-Viewing Discussion Part 2, Artivist Post-Viewing Discussion Part 3.

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

An article by Coexist Director Adam Mazo on working with trauma survivors

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OCTOBER 2010

Peace Chronicle Review of Coexist

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MARCH 31, 2009

The March 31st, 2009 Edition of the Beacon Hill Times reported on our benefit concert event, Rock Out for Reconciliation’s Reach.

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Watch the current Coexist preview