With thanks to our friends at the Wallingford Neighbors for Peace and Justice - "Friday Night At The Meaningful Movies" - for providing most of this information! You'll find their great listings at www.MeaningfulMovies.org [1]
Monday, November 6, 7:30pm-9:00pm - film followed by conversation with filmmakers
Film: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE [2]
Film Specs: 24 min, Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young, 2002, www.movingimages.org [3]
Description: What if 51,000 people from 131 countries put their heads together to discuss what is wrong with the world and how to work together to change it? In early 2002, public officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations, indigenous nations, farmers, and labor, including 11,000 young people, gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil for the World Social Forum. Called in response to the elite gathering of the World Economic Forum, this week of workshops, panel discussions and high-spirited demonstrations was an inspiration for those attending. This international event, covered extensively in other parts of the world, was virtually ignored by the U.S. press. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE presents a sampling of the issues and events at this enormous and creative gathering. The film has been broadcast on WYBE Philadelphia and Telesur, and shown in festivals, community and academic settings around the world. Film screening and discussion with the producers Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young of Moving Images.
Sponsors: Jubilee Northwest Coalition
Location: St. Mark's Conference Room, St. Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave. E., Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Tuesday November 7, 4:00pm - film followed by community discussion
Film: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE - Impressions of the 2002 World Social Forum [4]
Film Specs: 24 min, Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young, 2002, www.movingimages.org [5]
Description: What if 51,000 people from 131 countries put their heads together to discuss what is wrong with the world and how to work together to change it? In early 2002, public officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations, indigenous nations, farmers, and labor, including 11,000 young people, gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil for the World Social Forum. Called in response to the elite gathering of the World Economic Forum, this week of workshops, panel discussions and high-spirited demonstrations was an inspiration for those attending. This international event, covered extensively in other parts of the world, was virtually ignored by the U.S. press. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE presents a sampling of the issues and events at this enormous and creative gathering. The film has been broadcast on WYBE Philadelphia and Telesur, and shown in festivals, community and academic settings around the world.Film screening and discussion with the producers Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young of Moving Images.
Sponsors: Women’s Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Social Work
Cost: **This event is free and open to the public**
Location: Wyckoff Auditorium, Engineering Building, Seattle University, (Central District)
Metro Bus Routes: 2, 12
Wednesday, November 8, 7:00pm - film followed by community discussion
Film: THE TAKE [6]
Film Specs: 87 min, Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein, 2004, www.thetake.org [7]
Description: In the wake of Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Take documents a daring new movement of workers who are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating jobs in the ruins of the failed system. The story of the workers' struggle is set against the dramatic backdrop of a crucial presidential election, where they may lose the companies they've worked so hard to revive. The filmmakers champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century. But what shines through in the film is the simple drama of workers' lives and their struggle: the demand for dignity and the searing injustice of dignity denied.
Sponsors: The Evergreen Peace and Justice Community, Eastside Fellowship of Reconciliation
Cost: Event is FREE and open to the public ... but Donations are kindly accepted.
Location: Bradford Center, 700 108TH Ave NE, Bellevue
Metro Bus Routes:
Wednesday, November 8, 7:00pm - [5:30pm Potluck]
Film: OIL ON ICE [8]
Film Specs: 60 min, Dale Djerassi and Bo Boudart, Bullfrog Films, 2004, www.oilonice.org [9]
Description: A vivid, comprehensive and compelling documentary connecting the fate of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge to decisions America makes about energy policy, transportation matters, and other seemingly unrelated matters. Caught in the balance are the culture and livelihood of the Gwich’in people and the migratory wildlife in this fragile ecosystem. The goal of the new program is to cultivate open and safe dialogue by showing quality films that actively promote conversation on one of the four cornerstones of the Whidbey Institute mission: environmental, spiritual, social and economic issues. Community Potluck at 5:30 pm, movie at 7:00 pm with conversation to follow.
Sponsors: New Film Series! Whidbey Institute's REFLECTIVE REELS movie and conversation.
Cost:
Location: Thomas Berry Hall, Whidbey Institute's Chinook Center on Whidbey Island
Contact info: Please call 360-341-1884 or email us at info@whidbeyinstitute.org; www.whidbeyinstitute.org [10]
Friday, November 10, 7:00-9:30pm - film followed by community discussion
Film: THE GROUND TRUTH [11]
Film specs: 78 min, Patricia Foulkrod, 2006, www.thegroundtruth.org [12]
Description: “The Ground Truth” stunned filmgoers at the 2006 Sundance and Nantucket Film Festivals. Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir you to the core. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home – with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth. Join us for this powerful film.
Sponsors: Wallingford Neighbors for Peace & Justice - "Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies"
Cost: Event is FREE and open to the public ... but Donations are kindly accepted
Location: Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Place N., Seattle (Wallingford)
Metro Bus Routes: 16, 26 & 44
Friday, November 10, 7:00 PM - film followed by community discussion
Film:THE END OF SUBURBIA [13]
Description:
Sponsors: Presented by the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee (a Task Force of the Church Council of Greater Seattle) and Movie Night of Bethany.
Cost: Free, collection taken. Free professional childcare. There is a separate film showing for the older youth - to be chosen by those attending. Feel free to bring DVD's or VHS tapes.
Location: Bethany UCC Church, 6230 Beacon Ave S. at Graham St, Seattle (Beacon Hill)
For more information: 206-523-1720 or mail@drruhland.com or warner@scn.org
Friday, November 10, 7:00 PM - film followed by community discussion
Film:DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE [15]
Description: This is a tale about humans between the North and the South, about globalization, and about fish. Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. The once spell-binding natural beauty of the landscape around the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania stands today in sharp contrast to the wretchedness of the inhabitants and their fly-infested, horrendous surroundings. Today, the people live mainly on fishing and the fish processing industry all along the shores of these lakes. The film brings out graphically all the horrors of utter destitution—the continuing impoverishment (half of Tanzania’s population live on less than a dollar a day) and exploitation of the country and its people under the domination of the great powers of the day—making the viewer seethe with anger.
Sponsors: Presented by Revolution Books
Location: 1833 Nagle Place Seattle, WA 98122 (On Capitol Hill, off Denny, one short block east of Broadway)
For more information: (206) 325-7415 rbsea@yahoo.com
Saturday, November 11, 7:00 - film followed by refreshments and community discussion
Film: THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil [17]
Film Specs: 53 min, Faith Morgan, Pat Murphy, and Megan Quinn, 2006, www.communitysolution.org/cuba [18]
Description:THE POWER OF COMMUNITY is a must-see documentary film that offers an intriguing look at the collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge: an energy/food famine caused by the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1990. The documentary is drawing rave reviews with such comments as, “…The most uplifting portrayal of a success story coming out of chaos,” and “A must see for survival in the next energy age beyond oil.” Viewer Joshua Lockyer, of Atlanta said, “If we want to know how we as a nation are going to survive the peak oil crisis we need to have models...This film begins to show us how.”
Sponsors: Queen Anne Movie Guild's Second Saturday at the Movies
Cost: Event is FREE and open to the public.
Location: Queen Anne Manor, 100 Crockett St, Seattle (Queen Anne)
Additional info: www.queenannemovieguild.org [19]
Saturday, November 11, 7:00 (doors open 6:30pm)
Film: WRITERS ON THE BORDERS [20]
Film Specs: 80 min, Samir Abdallah and Jose Reynes, 2004www.palestinefilm.org [21]
Description: In 2002, eight internationally renowned writers, poets and intellectuals - including American novelist Russell Banks and Nobel laureates Jose Saramago and Wole Soyinka - traveled to the West Bank and Gaza to visit poet Mahmoud Darwish and observe the state of the Palestinians living there. Documentary filmmakers Samir Abdallah and Jose Reynes alternate scenes from the writers' journey with testimonials from the Palestinian people, readings by Darwish and reflections from the concerned authors as they bear witness to what they see. Followed by related presentation and discussion.
Sponsors: Palestine Solidarity Committee's "Palestine Film Festival"
Cost: Event is FREE and open to the public.
Location: Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Place N, Seattle (Wallingford)
Metro Bus Routes:16, 26 & 44
Additional info: 206-633-1086 or info@palestineinformation.org
Friday, November 17, 7:00-9:30pm - film followed by community discussion
Film: A SILENT FOREST [22]
Film Specs: 46 min, Ed Schehl, Global Justice Ecology Project, 2005, www.globaljusticeecology.org [23]
Description: “A Silent Forest” is a point of view documentary about the unknown dangers to human health, and the environmental health of our planet, posed by the planned introduction of genetically engineered trees. GE trees are the timber industry's next step for pulp and paper production; genetically engineered fruit trees are on the horizon and have the potential to transfer pollen for hundreds of miles carrying genes for traits including insect resistance, herbicide resistance, sterility and reduced lignin. They have the potential to impact wildlife as well as rural and indigenous communities that depend on intact forests for their food, shelter, water, livelihood and cultural practices. With heartfelt commentary by Dr. David Suzuki, and interviews with both scientists and activists, “A Silent Forest” makes a strong case for much more research and testing, before these test tube trees can even be seriously considered for introduction into our environment.
Sponsors: Wallingford Neighbors for Peace & Justice - "Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies"
Cost: Event is FREE and open to the public ... but Donations are kindly accepted
Location: Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Place N., Seattle (Wallingford)
Metro Bus Routes: 16, 26 & 44
Friday, November 24, 7:00-9:30pm - film followed by community discussion
Film: BIG BUCKS, BIG PHARMA [24]
Film Specs: 45 min, Ronit Ridberg, Media Education Foundation, 2005, www.mediaed.org [25]
Description: BIG BUCKS, BIG PHARMA pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Media scholars and health professionals help us understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with both industry-sponsored medical education/research and promotion to doctors. BIG BUCKS, BIG PHARMA challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being. From the Media Education Foundation.
Sponsors: Wallingford Neighbors for Peace & Justice - "Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies"
Cost: Event is FREE and open to the public ... but Donations are kindly accepted
Location: Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Place N., Seattle (Wallingford neighborhood)
Metro Bus Routes: 16, 26 & 44
Friday, December 1, 7:00-9:30pm - film followed by community discussion
Film: SOPHIE SCHOLL [26]
Film Specs: 117 min, Marc Rothemund, 2005, www.sophieschollmovie.com [27]
Description: The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of 2005, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence. In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.
Sponsors: Wallingford Neighbors for Peace & Justice - "Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies"
Cost: Event is FREE and open to the public ... but Donations are kindly accepted
Location: Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Place N., Seattle (Wallingford neighborhood)
Metro Bus Routes: 16, 26 & 44