HBO, Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to Host Premiere Screening of HBO Documentary Film SERGIO on Sunday, April 25

HBO, Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to Host Premiere Screening of HBO Documentary Film SERGIO on Sunday, April 25

WHAT: HBO, The Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics and the Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy will host special premiere screening
of the HBO Documentary Film SERGIO, based on Pulitzer Prize winner
Samantha Power's biography "Sergio: One Man's Fight to Save the
World." Samantha Power and filmmaker Greg Barker will both attend
as special guests to give opening remarks.

SERGIO is the story of the dashing U.N. diplomat who served in the
United Nations for more than 30 years, and was considered by some a
cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy. A humanitarian of the
highest order, his long career brought him to hot spots like
Swaziland, Cambodia and East Timor, earning him praise for his
hands-on work inside nations in crisis. In 2003, just after the
U.S. invasion of Iraq, Sergio reluctantly agreed to serve as the
Secretary General's special representative in Baghdad. It was to be
his most perilous assignment yet.

With visceral immediacy, filmmaker Greg Barker recreates the events
of Aug. 19, 2003, when Sergio was targeted by Al Qaeda terrorists.
A truck bomb explosion ravaged the U.N. headquarters at Baghdad's
Canal Hotel, killing more than 20 people and wounding more than 100.
SERGIO chronicles the dramatic search and rescue attempt, combining
harrowing testimony from Vieira de Mello's fiance, fellow U.N.
official Carolina Larriera, and the military paramedics who risked
their lives to save him, with haunting footage shot on the day of
the bombing, reenactments of the rescue attempt and flashbacks to
key moments in Sergio's remarkable life and career. SERGIO debuts
THURSDAY, MAY 6 (8:00-9:45 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

WHO: Samantha Power, Author, Sergio: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Greg Barker, Director/Producer

WHEN: Sunday, April 25, 2010
5:00pm - Reception
6:00pm - Screening begins

WHERE: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Contact: Suzanne Pinto
Suzanne.pinto@hbo.com
(212) 512-1904

/PRNewswire -- April 20/

Source: HBO

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