Expanded Bay Area Screenings
The Moving Image Festival has expanded to a week of screenings in the Bay area right before the conference. See below for a complete schedule.
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 uncontrolled 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
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
- An Ecology of Mind
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.
- 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.
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.
