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Global Focus IV will screen on opening night of the United Nations Film Festival in Palo Alto, CA

October 24, 2007

The 10th annual United Nations Association Film Festival will feature the documentary Global Focus IV: The New Environmentalists, featuring the 2007 Goldman Environmental Prize winner video profiles, on its opening night on October 24.

The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) runs from October 24 to 28, 2007 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. UNAFF celebrates the power of international documentary films and videos dealing with human rights issues, environmental survival, protection of refugees, famine, homelessness, racism, disease control, women’s issues, children, universal education, war and peace.

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