pdf schedule - complete - 14 pages, 158 kb
pdf schedule - short list - 1 page (rev 2/27)

Why We Fight [details]
     film showing: Wednesday 2/21 - 4 pm Fairhaven College
    speaker only: Wednesday 2/21 - 7 pm PAC

Black Gold [details]
      showing: Thursday, 2/22 - 7 pm Pickford
      showing:Thursday, 2/22 - 9:15 pm Pickford
      showing:Saturday, 3/2 - 5 pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

China Blue [details]
      showing: Friday, 2/23 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Iron Wall [details]
      showing: Saturday, 2/24 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets [details]
Finding Solutions [details]
      showing: Sunday, 2/25 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Slum Futures [details]
Dreaming of Tibet [details]
      showing: Monday 2/26 - 7pm Fairhaven CollegeAuditorium   

Who Shot my Brother? [details]
      showing: Tuesday 2/27 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Rain in a Dry Land [details]
      showing: Wednesday 2/28 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Toxic Bust [details]
Maquilapolis [details]
      showing: Thursday 3/1 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Dream People of the Amazon [details]
Granita de Arena [details]
      showing: Friday 3/2 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Fields of Mudan [details]
Cultivation Opportunity [details]
A Great Wonder [details]
Quiet Revolution [details]
Homeland [details]
One Campaign [details]
Black Gold [details]
      MATINEES:
      Saturday 3/3 - Fairhaven College Auditorium
       showing:  NOON - 5pm

Iraq for Sale [details]
The Ground Truth [details]
      showing:Saturday 3/3 - 7pm Fairhaven College Auditorium

Why We Fight

[view website]
Filmed during the Iraq War, this documentary dissects America's military machine with a keen eye to answering the question: Why does America engage in war?

Through personal stories of soldiers, government officials, scholars, journalists and innocent victims, the film examines the political and economic interests and ideological factors, past and present, behind American militarism. Winner of the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Award.
[see photo credits below ]

Black Gold
[view website]

Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.
Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy.

China Blue
[view website]

Like no other film before, 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.
[see photo credits below ]

Iron Wall

[view website]

Portrays the devastating effects of a massive wall building project by Israel, through Palestinian territories.

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
[view website]
Our oceans are not yet empty but the signs are not good. The seas have always been humanity's single largest source of protein, but for the first time in history this critical food supply is at risk in many areas. Despite an everintensifying fishing effort, the global catch appears to have reached its limit while the demand for seafood continues to grow. According to the FAO, 15 of the world's 17 major ocean fisheries are already depleted or over-exploited. These trends are even more troubling when population growth is considered.

The world population - now at six billion - will continue to grow by over 60 million people per year, with nearly half this growth in areas within 100 kilometers of a coastline. Over one billion people in Asia already depend on ocean fish for their entire supply of protein, as does 1 out of every 5 Africans. Although North America and Europe rely less on ocean-caught protein, much of the seafood consumed on both continents is imported from developing countries. The entire world shares an interest in restoring and maintaining this critical food supply. EMPTY OCEANS, EMPTY NETS examines the full extent of the global fisheries crisis and the forces that continue to push many marine fish stocks toward commercial extinction. The program also documents some of the most promising and innovative work being done to restore fisheries and protect essential fish habitat. New market initiatives are examined that give consumers a powerful vote in deciding how our oceans are fished. Commentary is provided by fishermen and by many of the world's most respected marine and fisheries scientists.

Finding Solutions
Offers hopeful and inspirational solutions to serious problems, from people around the world.

Slum Futures
[view website]
Overview of slum conditions worldwide and provides a view of specific models that are providing real solutions in India.
Bombay (Mumbai) is India's financial capital. According to Mumbai's city housing authority, eight out of the 12 million people in Mumbai live in the slums. Mumbai's slum dwellers are a proud community and the city is also an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world. Globally one in six people live in slums. At the current rate of growth, UN-Habitat predicts that by 2030, one in every three people in the world could be living in a slum.

Dreaming Of Tibet
In isolated communities around the world, particularly in India, Nepal and the United States, Tibetan exiles have created a 'virtual Tibet,' where they have endured and even flourished in the face of overwhelming adversity. DREAMING OF TIBET follows their arduous journeys from Tibet into exile over a 19,000 foot Himalayan pass. It's a flight that the Dalal Lama took in 1958 and over 150,000 of his followers have taken since then. Most have only minimal clothing and meager provisions to make the lifethreatening trek. Many die along the way. This intimate documentary is about the resilience of the human spirit under the most dire circumstances. The film looks at the lives of three extraordinary Tibetan exiles who have survived in exile and are deeply involved in working for the survival of their culture. They are, in short, Ms. Tseten Phanucharas, a political activist, who is one of the Dalai Lama's press
coordinators in Los Angeles; Ms. Tsering Lhamo, a nurse working with
recent refugees in Kathmandu, Nepal; and Mr. Ngawang Ugyen, a monk in
the Mt. Everest foothills. DREAMING OF TIBET captures the difficult challenges they each face and conveys the sense of hope they bring to their day-to-day lives in spite of great hardship and loss.

Who Shot My Brother?
[view website]
Some phone calls can turn your life upside down. That's what happened to filmmaker German Gutierrez when he received a call from Colombia, informing him there had just been an assassination attempt on his older brother Oscar, a political activist hated by the establishment but adored by the disenfranchised. In this film, German Gutierrez, who has been living in Montreal for the past thirty years, recounts his quest to find the hired gunmen who tried to kill Oscar and expose the roots of violence that have taken hold of his native country.

This beautifully filmed political documentary takes a courageous look at what Colombia has become: a lawless, neo-liberal Far West run by a corrupt middle class; an Eldorado where oil is more precious than gold and where Americans are the puppet masters pulling the strings while drug traffickers, guerrillas and paramilitaries engage in all-out combat with each other as the war on drugs rages on.

Rain in a Dry Land

Personal stories of Somali war refugees who came to the US in the early 1990’s.

Toxic Bust
[view website]
Breast cancer receives a great deal of attention in the U.S. An entire month is devoted to it; millions of dollars are raised for it. People run, walk, write and conduct research--all for the cause of breast cancer. Yet, despite these efforts, growing numbers of American women develop breast cancer each year and we still do not know why, or how best to prevent it.

Most breast cancer funding and research has gone toward treatment, and finding the elusive cure. Far less emphasis has been given to prevention and discovering the causes of breast cancer. TOXIC BUST, a thought-provoking and visually compelling documentary, uncovers the growing evidence which links breast cancer to chemical exposure. The film follows a 40-something woman who finds a lump in her breast, but like the majority of women with breast cancer, she has none of the established" risk factors. As she questions what may have caused her cancer, the film focuses on three cancer "hotspots" (Cape Cod MA, SF Bay Area, and hi-tech manufacturing workers) to more fully explore the connection between breast cancer and chemical exposure in the home, community and workplace. TOXIC BUST also raises questions about the long term health costs associated with early childhood chemical exposure and highlights the disproportionate toxic burden carried by low-income communities and workers. Interweaving fiction and documentary, hard science and personal testimony, TOXIC BUST challenges viewers to question how chemical use in the United States undermines the health of its citizens.

Maquilapolis
[view website]
Carmen works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana’s maquiladoras, the multinationally-owned factories that came to Mexico for its cheap labor. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. She earns six dollars a day.

But Carmen is not a victim. She is a dynamic young woman, busy making a life for herself and her children. As Carmen and a million other maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos -- life on the frontier of the
global economy. In MAQUILAPOLIS, Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change: Carmen takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor rights. Lourdes pressures the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing factory. As they work for change, the world changes too: a global economic crisis and the availability of cheaper labor in China begin to pull the factories away from Tijuana, leaving Carmen, Lourdes and their colleagues with an uncertain future.

Dream People of the Amazon
In the early 1990’s the Amazonian Achuar tribe of southeastern Ecuador learned about the outside world’s desire to extract the oil that lie below their territory. The elders of the tribe had been having similar dreams about this and their interpretation was stunning: if the Achuar people were to defend themselves and their land from oil companies, they would need to seek alliances in the very world that was attempting to destroy them. This is the first film the Achuar people have allowed to be made in their territory. Overcoming their shyness of cameras, they share with us their knowledge, customs, and spiritual beliefs. We learn how their dreams and alliances have protected their forests – and could even help guide all of us to a more sustainable future on our planet.

Granita de Arena
[view website]
A sixty-minute documentary, Granito de Arena places the Mexican teachers' struggle in a global context, clearly spelling out the relationship between economic globalization and the worldwide public education crisis.
[see photo credits below ]

Iraq for Sale

[view website]

Profiles companies that profit from war in Iraq.

The Ground Truth
[view website]
GROUND TRUTH: After the Killing Ends, takes an unflinching look at the training and dehumanization of US soldiers, and how they struggle to come to terms with it when they come back home. This film overrides familiar images of heroic soldiers in battle, and overjoyed returning faces, reunited with their families with one effortless stroke. Instead, we see a scenario that can include illness, amputation and injury, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), of which Iraq has become a fertile breeding ground. While America's poor treatment of veterans is not news to most, The Ground Truth makes it so personal and real, it is impossible to dismiss its characters simply as war statistics. The film gives us glimpses into a Marine Corps boot camp that allows us to comprehend how a man or woman can kill as part of their job. We get hit with more understanding of our soldiers' dehumanization by seeing Iraq combat footage that shows routine indiscriminate killing. Their jobs over, the confusion, guilt and shame that comes home with these "killers" is the tip of the iceberg. Left with few resources and families that cannot understand what they have seen or done,their anguish only intensifies. Foulkrod's graphic footage and still-photographs of the ground conflict in Iraq,should forever shatter the sanitized images found on the nightly news and provide a much needed wake-up call for all of us.

Fields of Mudan


[view website]

Emotional dramatization of child sex industry in Asia.

Cultivating Opportunity
Willie Head, Jr. is struggling to hold on to his farm-70 acres in southeast Georgia. Willie is one of the remaining 18,000 African Americans who are losing their land at the rate of a thousand acres a day. Teresa Massango, a farmer in Mozambique in Southeast Africa, is among the 80 percent of Mozambicans who depend on their land to feed themselves. They've faced war and famine, and are now threatened by investors wanting to profit from Mozambique's cheap land and labor. CULTIVATING OPPORTUNITY tells the inspiring story of how poor communities in Mozambique and the United States are creating opportunities to better their lives. Their work is a road map to ending hunger and poverty, a journey that begins within the communities themselves. In CULTIVATING OPPORTUNITY, communities in vastly different parts of the world demonstrate surprising similarities in the self-help solutions they champion to fight poverty. The video shows how these communities are creating the opportunities they need. Willie says, "I don't care what profession you're in; to just work hard doesn't do it. To just be committed doesn't do it. The opportunity must be there..."

A Great Wonder
[view website]
More than 2 million Sudanese have died in the longest uninterrupted civil war in the world, now in its 20th year. Another 5 million civilians have fled their homes to escape the fighting.

A GREAT WONDER traces the extraordinary journey of three young Sudanese orphans, a fraction of the 17,000 so-called "Lost Boys" of Sudan, who have spent the majority of their lives either in flight from war or in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. Having navigated the hazards of warfare, disease and starvation, their arrival and resettlement in Seattle, WA, is not your average immigration story. Over the course of 18 months, these youths have recorded their own experiences through their own eyes and in their own words using digital video cameras. The resulting "diaries" serve as a personal thread throughout the film, incorporating first-hand accounts of their experiences in war with their radically different lives as immigrants in America. A story of survival in its most elemental form, A GREAT WONDER explores the concepts of loss, faith, community and freedom as it bears witness to the spirit that drives these young people to rebuild their lives.

Quiet Revolution
[view website]
Exposes the erosion of the U.S. Constitution under Bush Administration.

Homeland
[view website]
Having brutally occupied the homeland of Native Americans, the invading Europeans forced the indigenous population onto reservations - land that was specifically selected because of its apparent worthlessness. To add salt to wounds that are still open, multinational energy companies and others are coming back to extract the hidden mineral wealth of the reservations, and are leaving a trail of toxins that, if unchecked, will make the land unlivable for centuries to come. But Native American activists are fighting back, and their inspirational stories are chronicled in "HOMELAND: Four Portraits of Native Action" against the backdrop of some of the country's most spectacular landscapes.· Gail Small, an attorney from the Northern Cheyenne nation in Montana, is leading the fight to protect the Cheyenne homeland from 75,000 proposed methane gas wells that pollute the water and threaten to make much of the reservation unsuitable for farming or ranching.· Evon Peter is the former chief of an isolated Alaska community of Gwich'in people, who are working against current efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Mitchell and Rita Capitan founded an organization of Eastern Navajo people in New Mexico whose only source of drinking water is threatened by proposed uranium mining.  Barry Dana, the former chief of the Penobscot Nation in Maine, is battling state government and the paper companies that have left his people unable to fish or swim in or harvest medicinal plants from the river on which they've depended for 10,000 years. With the support of their communities, these leaders are actively rejecting the devastating affronts of multinational energy companies and the current dismantling of 30 years of environmental laws. They are dedicated to forcing change - to save their land, preserve their sovereignty and ensure the cultural survival of their people.
Framed by the ecological and spiritual wisdom of Winona LaDuke, HOMELAND presentsa vision of how people all over the world can turn around the destructive policies of thoughtless resource plundering and create a new paradigm in which people can live healthier lives with greater understanding of,and respect for,the planet and all of its inhabitants.

[top of page]

One Campaign
[view website]
Film by Sehome H.S. student highlighting the ONE Campaign to make poverty history through; facts about impoverishment and HIV/AIDS in Africa, negative effects of international ltrade accords and debt, and opportunities for advocacy and action.

[top of page]

PHOTO CREDITS:

ChinaBlue.jpg
To avoid getting fined for falling asleep, Jasmine (17) and Liping (14) use clothespins that keep their eyes open. Photo courtesy of Teddy Bear Films.

ChinaBlue2.jpg
Jasmine is leaving her Sichuan village for a factory job and a new life two-day travel away. She won’t be back home for more than a year. Photo courtesy of the production company: Teddy Bear Films.

GroundTruth.jpg
A Soldier. Photo courtesy of Patricia Foulkrod Production Company

GranitaDeArena.jpg
Children protest assassination of teacher Misael Nuñez Acosta. Photo by Jorge Acevedo. Photo courtesy of Corrugated Films.

[top of page]