& 3: Diaster relief expert FRED CUNY (CUE-knee)
& 3: Diaster relief expert FRED CUNY (CUE-knee). Since January he's been in Sarajevo, implementing new water and gas systems. A former professor of engineering and public affairs, CUNY is hired by governments and agencies to coordinate responses to floods, famines, cyclones, earthquakes. He says, "Diasters are a function of underdevelopment" and he finds much humanitarian aid and relief satisfies the needs of the donor before it helps the recipient. CUNY was a Senior advisor to the US government on the Somalia famine in 1992. His book is "Diasters and Development" (Oxford University Press). (REBROADCAST from 11/3/93)Writer and director SUSAN SONTAG. Sontag was in Sarajevo in August, where she directed a performance of Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" in the Serbo-Croatian language. She is one of few arts figures to visit the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, a battle she calls "the Spanish Civil War of our time". Her latest novel is the "Volcano Lover," recently published in paperback by Anchor Books. (REBROADCAST from 8/25/93) NO REV.(INT. 5 INSTEAD) : One of Bosnia's leading film makers, and professor of film at the Academy of Film and Theatre in Sarajevo ADEMIR KENOVIC. His newest film "SA-Life" (SA stands for Sarajevo) is compiled of scenes shot by himself, other film makers, and film students in and around Sarajevo that capture the horror of the war. Each day, KENOVIC and his fellow film makers would meet in his basement studio to plan the day's shoot, going out with hand-held cameras. KENOVIC has made three other films. "SA-Life" played at the Cannes Film Festival and at the "International Video Arts Festival" at Lincoln Center in New York. (REBROADCAST from 10
