Los Angeles Premiere! Worse Than War March 24, 2010

Co-presented by Filmforum: Los Angeles Premiere! WORSE THAN WAR, 2009, JTN Productions and Thirteen/WNET, 105 min. Dir. Mike DeWitt. In the spring of 2008, renowned Holocaust scholar Daniel Jonah Goldhagen took a camera crew with him on a worldwide journey to explore the roots of genocide in our time. This documentaryis the unforgettable filmed record of that trip, following Goldhagen as he travels to Rwanda, Bosnia, Ukraine, Guatemala, Germany - sites of some of the worst mass slaughters in the past century - and encounters an extraordinary array of people who provide powerful insights into why genocide continues to plague our planet. Discussion following with director Mike DeWitt, producers Jay Sanderson, Adam Hyman, and Eve Marson and editor Jason Rosenfield.