Mar 03 2010
Milena Kaneva
Human-rights Activist, Film Producer & Director, Producer of “Total Denial”
Milena Kaneva is a journalist who has covered humanitarian crises and genocide (Rwanda), shooting reports in Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. Her exclusive interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize laureate kept under house arrest by the military dictatorship, connecting her to Burma forever. In 2000 she produced her first long-form documentary, The Initiation, about female genital mutilation in Mali, and won first prize at the Festival of Due Mondi. She has become an activist herself, creating the “Freedom from Fear Foundation” to expose human rights problems, to promote and help causes around the world.
“If people around the world know the truth, there is a chance for change. Milena’s film makes it happen!” Vaclav Havel
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