"Cinema Against Racism" Award for Young Roma Filmmaker

Roma filmmaker Laura Halilovic received the "Cinema Against Racism" award at the XV International Anti-Racism Meeting in Livorno, Italy. Halilovic was honored for her feature-length documentary film Me, My Gypsy Family & Woody Allen, which in June won the UCCA Prize 2009 at the Bellaria Film Festival in Bellaria, Italy.

Halilovic's film was produced by Zenit Arti Audiovisive with support from the Open Society Institute Roma Decade Matching Fund, Italian broadcaster RAI 3, the Italian Ministry of Equal Opportunity, Piemonte Doc Film Fund and other organizations.  View the film's trailer.

After the film won the UCCA Prize, the regional office of the Ministry of Education in Piedmont agreed to facilitate screenings of Me, My Gypsy Family & Woody Allen at more than 200 high schools. The film will be presented to teachers in October, and from 2010 the documentary will be available in the teachers' resource catalogue. Schools will also have the possibility to organize screenings followed by discussions between Halilovic and students.