MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL IN THE BAY AREA, OCTOBER 9-12TH, 2010
KORET AUDITORIUM, San Francisco Public Library
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010 - 11:00 am
ADMISSION: no charge (free)
100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA, 94102
- All Roads Film Festival
National Geographic All Roads Film Festival
”Dedicated to providing a platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers around the world, showcasing their works to promote knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader, global audience.”
Owners of the Water: Conflict and Collaboration over Rivers (35 minutes)
A central Brazilian Xavante, a Wayuu from Venezuela and an anthropologist explore an indigenous campaign to protect a river from the devastating effects of controlled Amazonian soy cultivation. In person: Filmmaker Laura R. Graham with writer Joseph Jon Lanthier from Slant Magazine and Bright Lights Film.
Daughters of the Revolution (32 minutes)
Portrait of prominent Iranian lawyer, Mehrangiz Kar, one of the most celebrated activists in the history of the women’s movement in Iran, told through the eyes of her daughter.
Earth Day in Attawapiskat (15 minutes)
A brief look at the development of ancestral lands and environmental degradation.
Weaving the Wisdom (20 minutes)
20 minute excerpt from a feature film in development about the struggle to control strategic territory, contested by the guerrilla, paramilitary and state forces, that fuels the 60 year old Colombian armed conflict.
KORET AUDITORIUM, San Francisco Public Library
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010 - 1:30-4:30 pm
ADMISSION: no charge (free)
100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA, 94102
- FUTURESTATES
FUTURESTATES
What will become of America in five, 25, or even 50 years from today?
Shown at the prestigious SXSW Film Festival, FUTURESTATES is a series of 11 fictional mini-features exploring possible future scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities as independent filmmakers project a future of their own imagining. Series includes:
- Plastic Bag: A discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America.
- Fallout: A young man’s search for his girlfriend after L.A. has fallen victim in a nuclear attack.
- Mister Green: A jaded government undersecretary becomes the unwitting test subject for an experimental program to curb global warming.
- The Other Side: A man immigrates illegally to a new land of opportunity.
- Pia: When a woman in mourning encounters a mysterious wandering service android, she is forced to redefine its conceptions of humanity, relationships, and family.
- Play: Society’s obsession with video and online gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are indistinguishable from physical ones.
- The Rise: In the radically altered housing market of the future, an older couple must forgo their dreams of retirement and adapt to the ever-evolving definition of the American dream.
- Seed: In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders. Sling -In the near future, corporations offer incentives to their high-ranking female employees to pay for surrogate pregnancies and chemically accelerated births.
- Tent City: A father who makes his in the housing market living evicting the powerless, he must choose between his responsibilities and his moral principles.
- Tia and Marco: A pregnant border patrol agent is forced to question her loyalty to a system when she discovers an illegal immigrant child hiding in her home.
Special Guests: Karim Ahmad and Jorge Trelles, Series and Production Managers. Facilitated by Steve Silberman, writer for Wired, Shambhala Sun and other national magazines.
RED VIC
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010 - 1:45 pm
ADMISSION: $10-Cash or check only
1727 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Special Screening: An Ecology of Mind (58 minutes)
An Ecology of the Mind is the first film about Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, systems theorist, and filmmaker, produced and directed by his daughter, Nora Bateson. The film includes Bateson’s own films shot in the 1930s in Bali (with Margaret Mead) and New Guinea, along with photographs, filmed lectures, and interviews. Through contemporary interviews, along with his own words, Bateson’s way of thinking reveals practical approaches to the enormous challenges confronting the human race and the natural world.
Special Guests: Nora Bateson, Stewart Brand, and Fritjof Capra with Sara Vizcarrando from Box Office Magazine
Shown with:
Circle of Stories (28 minutes)
Circle of Stories uses documentary film, photography, artwork and music to honor and explore Native American storytelling.
Special Guests: Melissa Nelson from The Cultural Conservancy
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE, UC Berkeley
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2010 - 5:00 pm
ADMISSION:
$5.50-$9.50
Cash or check only
2625 Durant Avenue #2250, Berkeley, CA 94720-2250
- Freedom Riders
FREEDOM RIDERS
Website
In 1961, an integrated band of college students called the Freedom Riders boarded a Greyhound bus headed for the Deep South. By doing so, they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face to face with the issue of segregation that plagued the nation. Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists that includes remarkable interviews with influential figures on both sides of the issue. Premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Special Guest: Dr. Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Professor of History, Stanford University, with writer Joseph Jon Lanthier from Slant Magazine and Bright Lights Film.
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE, UC Berkeley
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2010 - 7:45 pm
ADMISSION:
$5.50-$9.50
Cash or check only
2625 Durant Avenue #2250, Berkeley, CA 94720-2250
SHORT FILMS FROM THE QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR MEDIA ARTS PROJECT
(QWOCMAP) promotes the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films/videos that address the vital social justice issues that concern queer women of color to build community through art and activism.
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- Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
- The generations born after 1932 know that TO BE SALVADORIAN IS TO BE HALF-DEAD.
- Ascending prayer vibrates with the pitch of earth in RENACIMIENTO DE UNA BRUJA. SAGRADO echoes the balance and harmony found in nature.
- Encounters with European Christians change the measure of Two-Spirit ambassadors in TWO EMBRACE.
- Spiritual connections in TWO SPIRITS: BELONGING frames the Bay Area urban reservation.
- KILLING THE 7th GENERATION strikes a powerful lament against the history of forced sterilization.
- TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS VALUES counter the dissonant frequencies of colonization and Prop 8.
- Added short; HARVEY MILK DAY by student Gunita Singh.
Special Guests: Filmmakers Carrie House, Margareth Ramos, Zemaya Martinez, Ruth Villasenor, Rope Wolfe, and Melinda Micco, with Madeleine Lim from QWOCMAP.
DAVID BROWER CENTER
TUESDAY, October 12, 2010 - 5:30 pm
SUGGESTED DONATION: $15.00 plus reception (cash or check only)
2150 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704
SPECIAL SCREENING: URBAN ROOTS (92 minutes)
From the creator of the Leonardo DiCaprio documentary The 11th Hour, URBAN ROOTS deals with a small group of dedicated citizens, allied with environmental and academic groups, who have started an urban environmental movement with the potential to transform not just a city after its collapse, but also a country after the end of its industrial age. Urban Roots is the story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a city where real food for most people is thousands of miles away.
Special Guests: Producer Leila Conners and Director Mark McInnis with Bioneers Food and Farming Director Arty Mangan
Reception in between the two screenings catered by Epicurean Group with beer provided by New Belgium Brewery.
DAVID BROWER CENTER
TUESDAY, October 12, 2010 - 8:00 pm
SUGGESTED DONATION: $15.00 for each film plus reception (cash or check only)
2150 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704
- Confessions of an Eco Terrorist
SPECIAL SCREENING: CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO TERRORIST
This feature documentary shows Peter Jay Brown (from Animal Planet’s Whale Wars) in his shipboard life with self-proclaimed animal saviors and sea rebels who shaped the green movement as it is today by performing extraordinary feats of daring on the high seas. Their fleet of ramming vessels inflicts damage to whalers, illegal drift-netters, & seal hunters that operate illegally world-wide while engaging in action packed conflict including sinkings, boardings, arrests, and rammings. These activists have dedicated their lives to a series of inspiring campaigns to halt the atrocities committed worldwide against sea mammals.
Not suitable for children.
Special Guests: Peter Jay Brown with writer Joseph Jon Lanthier from Slant Magazine and Bright Lights Film.
