'Press Pass to the World'

That's the name of a documentary about foreign correspondents being screened tonight by the Los Angeles Press Club and the American Cinema Foundation. It was filmed on location in New Delhi, Hong Kong, Seoul, Washington, D.C., Havana and Vienna with reporters for the L.A. Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Time, International Herald Tribune, Times of India, Jerusalem Post and others. The 7:30 p.m. screening at AFI on Western Avenue will be preceeded by a reception and followed by a Q-and-A session with a panel that includes author and journalist Ann Louise Bardach, Agence France-Presse bureau chief Marc Lavine, the film's director Craig McCourry and Reason magazine's Matt Welch. The Press Club site has more info.

Also today: LAT Baghdad bureau chief Alyssa Rubin and the New York Times' Dexter Filkins and John Burns will speak at USC Annenberg after a screening of the PBS Frontline documentary Reporting the War. That's at 12:30 pm. in Annenberg Room 207. And in the evening, authors Dava Sobel and M.G. Lord talk about the private lives of rocket scientists as part of the Central Library's Aloud series.

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