Rebecca Sommer

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Rebecca Sommer is a German artist, journalist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. She is the representative for the Indigenous Department USA of the Society for Threatened Peoples [2], an international NGO in special consultative status to the United Nations (ECOSOC), and in participatory status with the Council of Europe. She founded Earth Peoples [3], a global circle of indigenous peoples working together to promote the natural and human rights of indigenous peoples.

Rebecca Sommer earns her living as an artist, with works in beauty, fashion, print and film, and has worked as the editor-at-large for magazines such as Scene, Madison, and Spirit while living in Germany, India, Great Britain, Brazil, South Africa and the USA.


Recent work as a filmmaker includes "Work-in-progress - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples"[4],

"Eliminated Without Bleeding" [5] received the New York Festivals International Film & Video Award, Documentaries 2008, Official Selection: Lowell Film Festival, 2008. [6].

"Hunted Like Animals" [7] received the WorldFest 2008 SILVER REMI Award. Official Selection: Amnesty International Film Festival, 2008[1].

"Thary, a day in my Village in Vietnam" [8] Official Selection:Danville International Film Festival, KIdsFirst! Film Festival, 2008: [2].

"The United Nations and Indigenous Peoples, Vol. 1" [9] received the New York Festivals International Film & Video Award, 2007.[3] Official Selection 2008: Montreal Human Rights Film Festival [4]; Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film Festival[5]; Human Rights Film Festival Aotearoa New Zealand[6].


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  1. ^ Amnesty International Film Festival
  2. ^ [ http://www.kidsfirst.org/kidsfirst/]
  3. ^ New York Festivals[1]
  4. ^ FFDPM 2008
  5. ^ Human Rights Film Festival
  6. ^ [www.humanrightsfilmfest.net.nz]

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