Global Film Festival Nanaimo will screen 38 films, and offer several workshops. Return to Film Schedule Return to Main Menu
Note:Film classifications are included where known. Viewers should use their own discretion with films that are not classified.
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Opening NIght- Friday, February 22 ~ Refreshments will be available in the theatre lobby |
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10 min, 2007 back to schedule |
Premiere of the film produced by Monica Wysotski, the 2007 Rights and Democracy Nanaimo student film award recipient. Sacred Trust is a spiritual film from an indigenous perspective that expresses a human connection to the natural world. It focuses on the realities of environmental destruction and the impact of human encroachment on wildlife. The film is inspired by a song called 'The White Machine' that addresses the destruction of life, written by singer/songwriter Andrea Smith. Sacred Trust incorporates indigenous voice, song and dance and it honours the powers of the natural world. It sends a message of sacredness for life and a reminder of an ancient trust relationship founded on respect for nature, universal and indigenous rights, economic justice and a culture of peace. |
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10 min, 2007 back to schedule |
A Documentary about SPP (the Security Prosperity Partnership) and TILMA (Trade Investment Labour Mobility Agreement) and how trade agreements in general are driven by a secretive corporate agenda that excludes civil society, the labour and environmental movements. These agreements escape the scrutiny of our democratic processes, but may alter/remove regulations and institutions that have been put in place by decades of democratically elected representatives of the people. |
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88 min, 2005 back to schedule |
*Sponsor: Nanaimo, Duncan & District Labour Council* China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made. Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female factory workers. Filmed both in the factory and in the workers' faraway village, this documentary provides a rare, human glimpse at China's rapid transformation into a free market society. |
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Saturday February 23 |
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34 min, 2007 back to schedule |
Intag region in Ecuador is one of the world’s ten most threatened biodiversity hotspots. On the border of the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve, Ascendant Copper Corporation proposes to construct an open-pit copper mine. After a fierce battle in the 1990s between local people and mining corporations, the local government declared the whole of Cotacachi an “Ecological County”, and banned mining activities in the region. Despite this, in August 2002, two mining concessions in the Intag were secretly auctioned off by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Energy and Mines to a private trafficker in mining concessions. These rights were subsequently sold in 2004 and then transferred to Ascendant Copper Corporation (ACX), based in Vancouver. The communities of Cotacachi have continued to resist the encroachment of Ascendant Copper on their lands and have gained the support of international organizations including Friends of the Earth, Mining Watch Canada and Rainforest Concern. |
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35 min, 2005 back to schedule Filmmaker: Jan Cannon |
Imagine that you are first in line at a potluck supper that includes not only food and water, but all the materials needed to sustain life. How do you know how much to take? How much must you leave for your neighbours behind you – not just more than 6 billion human beings, but our fellow creatures and future generations? In the face of looming ecological disaster, many people feel the need to change their own lifestyle as a necessary step in transforming our unsustainable way of life. Engineer and author Jim Merkel demonstrates that a radically simple lifestyle is both possible and satisfying. Awards: Vermont International Film Festival |
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27 min, 2007 Canada back to schedule Director: Edwin Carswell |
*A Black History Month Feature* Nanaimo African Heritage Society Empowering Youth is a celebration of eco-leadership programs in 12 African countries. |
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94 min, 2007 back to schedule Filmmakers: Daniel Gold & Judith Helfand |
Everything’s Cool is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific deception, a group of climate change messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the US from its reliance on fossil fuels to a new earth-friendly economy – and fast! |
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85 min, 2007 back to schedule Filmmakers: Annie Sundberg/Ricki Stern |
This hard-hitting film exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of former Marine Captain, Brian Steidle. His photographs and testimony take us on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle was unprepared for what he would witness and experience including being unable to intervene to save lives. Frustrated by the inaction of the international community, he resigned and returned to the US to expose the images and stories of lives destroyed and to work to stop the carnage. Disturbing images. |
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75 min, 2007 back to schedule Filmmaker: Andrew Nisker |
Where does all our garbage go and what it’s doing to the world? Concerned for the future of his new baby boy, director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. From organic waste to the stuff they flush down the potty, the plastic bags they use to the water they drink out of bottles, the air pollution they create when transporting the kids around, to using lights at Christmas, the McDonalds discover that for every action there is a reaction that affects them and the entire planet. By the end of the odyssey, you will be inspired to change your lifestyle for the sake of future generations. |
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LUNCH BREAK 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Bazaar in the Cafeteria, Building 300. Watch the Sweatshop Fashion Show at 12:30 and learn about clothing made in sweatshops, and clothing made in Canada |
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55 min, 2007 Canada back to schedule Director: Connie Littlefield |
Meet a group of maverick cops with varying political ideals who discuss the question: Is the war on drugs doing more damage than the drugs themselves? After 30 years of drug war, illegal narcotics are decreasing in price, increasing in purity and demand continues to surge. The heroes of this film are veterans of the drug war and they urge us to consider ending drug prohibition. They have had a complete revolution in their thinking. Now they are working to end the War on Drugs. Find out what happened to change their minds. "Legalize, regulate and tax" is their mantra now. They believe that all illicit drugs should be under the control of government, not left in the hands of criminals. |
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75 min back to schedule Gullah/Geechee film & workshop with |
The Gullah-Geechee people are a group of West African slave descendants living on the coastal islands of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. |
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84 min, 2006 back to schedule Filmmaker: David Zeiger |
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam. Los Angeles Film Festival; Audience Award, and other numerous awards |
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88 min, 2007 back to schedule Filmmakers: Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney |
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food industry. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the US heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbours, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. Entertaining and enlightening. |
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93 min, 2006 back to schedule |
¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, ¡Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries. They take with them the experience and philosophy of their own community-oriented, preventive and universal health care model, a model fundamentally at odds with a global wave of healthcare privatization. International medical students in Cuba now number 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right. |
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49 min, 2005 back to schedule Director: Patrick Reed |
In December 2004, the Ontario Hospital Association had their first team of health care workers on the ground in Lesotho, operating out of Tsepong Clinic (“the place of hope” in Sesotho, the local language.) As part of a three-year partnership with the Lesotho Ministry of Health, they help with the wide-spread distribution of affordable life-saving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs.) Doctors, pharmacists and a single nurse provide instructions and ongoing coaching to patients under extraordinary working conditions. |
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10 min, 2006 Canada back to schedule followed immediately by 100% Cotton: Made in India |
A DVD on conscientious objection to military taxation, by award-winning director/producer Sarah Zammit In Conscience Canada’s fast paced, informative, emotionally engaging film Justice Thomas Berger, Hon. Jean Augustine, MP Bill Siksay, and others discuss the Conscientious Objection tax bill, a citizen’s responsibility to obey conscience, non-violent interventions, and personal experience. |
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82 min, 2007 back to schedule Director: Arturo Perez Torres |
Super Amigos follows 5 modern-day super heroes in Mexico City as they fight for social justice and human rights. These super heroes are a group of Lucha Libre wrestlers who have taken their fight out of the ring and into the streets of the Mexican Capital. Super Barrio, Super Gay, Ecologista Universal, Super Animal and Fray Tormenta are real life masked super heroes who fight against evil slumlords, corrupt politicians, homophobia, pollution, animal abusers, and poverty. Though their true identity remains a mystery, they could easily be Mexico City’s most popular figures and last salvation. Creativity and social activism combine to become a powerful force. |
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30 min, 2003 back to schedule Filmmakers: Inge Altemeier und Reinhard Hornung
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Cotton is the main material for our textiles, especially those we wear directly on the skin. During cotton production, huge quantities of pesticides are used, including poisons used as chemical weapons. Many of these pesticides are banned in other countries but still used in India. In the cotton belt of India, hundreds of farmers caught in the vicious cycle of debt have committed suicide by drinking pesticides. Hundreds more die of the poisons during the spraying season or from handling the contaminated cotton during processing. The residues of the poisons also enter the bodies of consumers as they wear the clothing made from contaminated cotton. Brazil Environmental Film Festival: First Place |
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96 min, 2007 back to schedule |
This journey of discovery is a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us. Through personal stories and interviews we see how declining world oil production has already begun to affect modern life in North America. Expert scientific opinion is balanced with “on the street” portraits from an emerging global movement of citizens’ groups who are confronting the challenges of Peak Oil in extraordinary ways. Escape from Suburbia asks the tough questions: What are the controversies surrounding our future energy options? What are ordinary people doing in their own communities to prepare for Peak Oil? |
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32 min, 2006 back to schedule |
*A Black History Month Feature* Nanaimo African Heritage Society Culture and its proponents prevent Luo women of Kenya from inheriting and owning their deceased husbands’ land and properties. The widows themselves are deemed property and are often “inherited.” They are forced to marry male relatives, usually brothers-in-law, according to an ancient custom known as ‘ter.’ But the women of Orongo are emerging victorious in a battle against practices they consider oppressive and cruel. And, remarkably, they put their success down to AIDS, which has revolutionized Luo culture at Orongo. Widows and elders have joined hands to successfully fight the practice of ter, arguing that widows with HIV could infect their “inherited” husbands. |
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53 min, 2006 Canada back to schedule |
Each year, millions of people the world over are driven to forced displacement. From the Maldives to Brazil, and even closer to home in Canada, the disturbing accounts of people who have been uprooted are amazingly similar. The enormous pressure placed on rural populations as a result of the degradation of their life-supporting environment is driving them increasingly further from their way of life. The Refugees of the Blue Planet sheds light on the desperate plight of individuals who are suffering the repercussions of this reality: environmental refugees. They are constantly growing in number and often have no legal status, even though their right to a clean and sustainable environment has been violated. |
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50 min back to schedule Multi Media Performance |
This performance piece highlights the stories of Kenyans who are tackling the problems of their country in creative and spirited ways. The presentation combines prose and story-telling, live music, taped music from Kenya, and a slideshow of Maggie and Phil's photographs to create a multi-media experience. Included are are rural AIDS educators,young urban musicians and the organization that Maggie and Phil are supporting which is bringing desperately-needed HIV/AIDS information to the mainly-female workers of Kenya's export textile factories and the surrounding slum settlements. "A beautiful and moving performance, filled with heart and soul" "A spirited and inspiring evening that made the global community feel real, communicating a grass-roots sense of connection and possibility" |
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75 min back to schedule |
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27 min, 2007 back to schedule |
Lawns are undeniably a North American symbol. But what do they symbolize? Pride and prosperity? Or waste and conformity? Gimme Green is a humourous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets, and our outlook on life. From the subdivisions of Florida to sod farms in the arid southwest, Gimme Green peers behind the curtain of the $40 billion industry that fuels the US’s largest irrigated crop – the lawn. Best Documentary: Beverly Hills Shorts Festival; Juror’s Citation: Big Muddy Film Festival, Winner of Best Dpcumentary: Oxford International Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, Beverly Hills Short Festival, |
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Join us for a delicious dinner professionally catered by the Basque Restaurant, 5:30 in International Education Building (255) |
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Saturday Night - February 17 Refreshments will be available in the theatre lobby |
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10 min, 2007 back to schedule |
Premiere of the film produced by Carol Bennett, the 2007 Community film award recipient.This documentary deals with the issue of homelessness in our hometown of Nanaimo. While presenting the root causes of homelessness, this video also unveils the hidden living conditions of our most desolate individuals. Hopefully this video will open our minds and incite each other to respond to this social problem. This film will expose homeless issues, and hopefully produce a social movement that will change how we deal with our most vulnerable citizens. |
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74 min, 2006 back to schedule Filmmaker: Linda Hattendorf |
"Make art not war" is Jimmy Mirikitani's motto. This 85-year-old Japanese American artist was born in Sacramento and raised in Hiroshima, but by 2001 he is living on the streets of New York with the twin towers of the World Trade Center still ominously anchoring the horizon behind him. How did Mirikitani end up on the streets? The answer is in his art. As tourists and shoppers hurry past, he sits alone on a windy corner in Soho drawing whimsical cats, bleak internment camps, and the angry red flames of the atomic bomb. When a neighbouring filmmaker stops to ask about Mirikitani's art, a friendship begins that will change both their lives. The Cats of Mirikitani is an intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing power of art. A heart-warming affirmation of humanity that will appeal to all lovers of peace, art, and cats. Audience Award: Tribeca Film Festival |
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Sunday - February 24 |
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45 min, 2007 back to schedule |
investigates the upside and the downside of increasing corporate influence on public education in North America. When public education funding was slashed in the 1980s, America opened its doors to corporations' deep pockets. As Canadian schools faced budget shortfalls a decade later, most of the country followed suit. As cash-strapped schools struggle to pay for books and classroom materials, corporate sponsors are stepping up to the plate and offering promotions, sponsorships and even free curriculum. With virtually no regulation in place, the line between corporate social responsibility and back door marketing opportunities is blurring. |
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51 min, 2007 back to schedule |
More than 30 years after political prisoner Félix Mora suffered under Chile's cruel 1973 and inhumane dictatorship, he relives the shocking details of the human rights abuses he escaped from and the challenges he faced as an exile in Italy and Canada. Félix's heartbreaking memories are shared with his friend Jorge Aro, another political prisoner who was also held in the Stadium at the tender age of 15. Exile was meant to silence those who fought the regime. For Félix, exile became a catalyst to fight for freedom and democracy. Can he ever repatriate to his birthplace and belong to Chile again, or has this experience changed him - and his country - to a point of no return? This inspirational film where terror and injustice are overcome by courage and determination is a testament to the lives of many Chilean exiles. |
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48 min, 2006 Canada back to schedule Director: Leigh Badgley |
With dramatic action footage, still photographs, lively interviews with unforgettable characters, Greenpeace: Making a Stand explores what inspires people to risk their lives for their beliefs - to sail a ship into a nuclear test zone, to get between a pod of whales and an explosive harpoon, or to block bulldozers mowing down a forest. This compelling documentary looks at the 35 year evolution of Greenpeace from the early days of the environmental movement in the 1970s, to the front lines of a potentially dangerous campaign in Argentina’s Pizarro Reserve. As a result of the attention that Greenpeace and the documentary crew brought to this struggle, the Wichi people won title to the Reserve. |
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52 min, 2007 Canada back to schedule Filmmaker: Barri Cohen |
Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the effects of the chemical soup around us. She starts with her 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens like benzene and DDT. In Canadian toxic hotspots, Windsor and Sarnia, everyone seems to know children who have suffered respiratory illnesses, leukemia, brain tumours and other illnesses. And on the Native reserve of Aamjiwnaang, ringed by Sarnia’s “chemical valley,” the film reveals a startling birth rate problem that officials just can’t ignore. We meet passionate activists working for positive change, along with doctors and scientists who see evidence of links between environmental pollution and health problems. |
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56 min, 2007 back to schedule Filmmaker: Barbara Sumner Burstyn |
'The outcome of the battle for agricultural control in India may just dictate the future of the earth.' 78 year old Peter Proctor is quietly determined to save the world. Peter is known as the father of modern biodynamic farming, a form of organic agriculture. Biodynamic agriculture is changing the landscape, releasing entire communities from the debt cycles and destroyed lands of chemical farming and the bio colonialism of multinational corporations. One Man, One Cow, One Planet reveals the hidden battle of marginal farmers to own seeds, to grow diverse crops, to feed themselves and their communities. Numerous awards |
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54 min, 2006 Canada back to schedule Director: Nance Ackerman |
When the last of Cape Breton's once thriving coalmines shut down in the late 1990s, the shrinking population of Glace Bay faced chronic unemployment. For some, despair led to a dependency on the prescription painkiller OxyContin. Cottonland draws a coherent line between economic and social depression and asks us to consider the deeper roots of widespread social problems. Strong and cohesive social network can help people to resist drug dependency. Ironically, this network exists in the neighbouring Native community of Membertou, where the economy is flourishing and a culture of hope thrives after generations of despair. Cottonland emphasizes the importance of a collective approach to problems of addiction and dependency. |
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57 min, 2005 back to schedule Caution: images of whaling may disturb some viewers |
Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales is a fascinating exploration into the life and work of whale biologist and activist Roger Payne. Payne’s electrifying discovery in the early 1970s that whales sing “songs” helped ignite the modern day environmental movement. With beautiful and haunting images, Payne challenges us to become the greatest generation of all. Saving earth’s largest creatures would open the door to humanity’s recognition of our true role in the biosphere. (Images of whaling may disturb some people.) Earthwatch Film Award; Best Film & Video: MountainFilm, Telluride; Marine Conservation Award, Best Film & Video, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, Ben & Jerry's Environmental Award, Vermont International Film Festival, Marine Conservation Award, International Wildlife Film Festival, Best Cinematography Award, United Nations Association Film Festival, Silver Hugo Award, Chicago International Television Film Festival, Best Oceans/Water Film, EarthVision Environmental Film Festival, Best Sea Conservation Film, International Life Film Festival |
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52 min, 2007 Quebec back to schedule Filmmakers: Pierre Mignault & Hélène Magny |
*A Black History Month Feature* Nanaimo African Heritage Society In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country whose record of human rights violations is among the highest in the world, the journalists at Radio Okapi constantly risk their lives in order to denounce the extreme abuses of power to which the civilian population is subjected. Shot under dangerous conditions, with the rebellion as backdrop, Shock Waves follows these reporters’ investigations. In a land where silence is imposed at gunpoint, Shock Waves provides eloquent testimony to the struggle for freedom of expression and democracy in a war-torn nation. |
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LUNCH BREAK 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and Bazaar in the Cafeteria, Building 300
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1:00 pm
Bldg 355
Room 203
93 min, 2007 back to schedule
Corrugated Films, Parental GUidance: Coarse Language; Violence
Filmmaker: Jill Friedberg
*Sponsors: Nanaimo DistrictTeachers Association and CHLY Radio Malaspina*
l*When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...they TOOK the media. In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, but it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. This documentary captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
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1:00 pm
Bldg 356
Room 109
107 min, 2007 back to schedule
ThinkFilm, Parental Guidance: May Frighten Young Children
(Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary)
Directors: Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine
For the last twenty years, Northern Uganda has been at war with a rebel force, the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.) The L.R.A has a chillingly effective process to fill its ranks: abducting the boys to become soldiers and the girls into sexual slavery. But amidst the grief and violence, voices are heard - children’s voices, singing strong, without fear. Across the country, Ugandan children are getting ready for the biggest event of the year: the annual Kampala Music Festival. War Dance follows the courageous efforts of Patongo Elementary School students as they pour their hearts into this year’s competition. They dance to the rhythms of their ancestors, they dance about their future, they dance to be children…and they dance to win. Inspirational. Documentary Directing Award; Sundance 2007
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1:00 pm
Bldg 320
Choral Room
93 min, 2006 Canada back to schedule
West/Dunn Productions
Bill Dunn and Linda West
Anyone who senses that democratic governments are being increasingly ruled by global corporate interests at the expense of the public interest should see this film. It examines some of the less-talked-about effects of free trade and corporate globalization on Canada.
- Do these trade deals affect our sovereignty?
- Are we losing head offices and why should that matter?
- Is the Canadian economy as dependent on trade with the U.S. as we are led to believe?
- After 20 years has life improved for most Canadians?
- Are we importing the values of American neoconservatism?
Since Canada signed a free trade agreement with the U.S. in 1989 our standard of living has gone down, wealth is more concentrated in the hands of a few, takeovers have led to whole sectors of the Canadian economy becoming majority foreign-owned and several clauses severely limit our sovereignty. This documentary shows how "free trade" has not paid off for Canadians.
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1:00 pm
Bldg 200
Room 203
90 min, 2006 back to schedule
Documix, Rating: General
Directors: Mike Roth & John Hennig
I*Sponsor: Bend Over Backwards Yoga*
In November 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Court issued a historic decision that made the state the first in the US to legalize same-sex marriage. Instead of representing a final victory for the movement, it was just the beginning of the fight that would stretch through two state Constitutional Conventions and an election and is still in process today. Saving Marriage chronicles the events spawned by the initial court decision. Interviews with lobbyists, activists, and politicians give an inside look at the strategies and efforts employed to preserve the right for gays and lesbians to marry. A gripping drama. Many audience awards
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2:45 pm
Bldg 320
Choral Room
60 min back to schedule
This workshop will look at successful models of community based independent media - with the objective of inspiring likeminded individuals in the mid-island region to work together to create an independent media society or cooperative in Nanaimo. Resources for researching and reporting news could be shared between print (Mid Island News?), television (ICTV Nanaimo?), radio (CHLY?) and a web portal.
This workshop features guest speakers Sid Tan, one of the founders of Independent Community TV (ICTV) in Vancouver and the Community Media Education Society, Art Farquharson, one of the contributors to Our Paper, a Victoria based independent, progressive publication committed to Social Justice, Peace and Environmental Protection, Ken Zakreski, representing a group trying to start Gabriola Coop radio, and Marion Van der Zon, involved in narrow cast pirate radio. The workshop will be facilitated by independent journalist and media activist Paul Manly and will be narrow cast by Marian at TAR 99.1FM, Temporary Autonomous Radio. .
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2:45 pm
Bldg 355
Room 203
46 min, 2006 Canada back to schedule
Artist: Jen Fisher
This documentary chronicles the lives and stories of a group of women who are currently in and out of street level sex work from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Part of a landmark multi-year support and education project, Journey Women; Reflections on the Survival Sex Trade challenges the stereotypes about survival sex work and illuminates the complexities and realities of the women’s lives.