Film: Checks and Balances (Contrepouvoirs)
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York CityTo RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Mohamed Amer Meziane. Algerian documentary filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl set up his camera in the newsroom of the famous daily paper El Watan, the spearhead of the Algerian independent press, to film the procedures and thought processes behind journalism during the last presidential election. Accommodated…