Welcome to the Fall 2008 Peace & Justice Film Series!

We will be showing documentary and historical films most Thursdays from January 31st, through May 1st, 2008. The films examine many important questions of our time from a variety of perspectives.

Admission: By Donation. No one is turned away.

There will be a lively and respectful discussion after each screening of every film. All of these movies are thought provoking, so please stay afterwards and share your thoughts with other members of the community. We encourage participants with all points of view to attend: diversity of opinion leads to richer discussions and deeper understanding.

Labor Day Special
Maquilapolis:
City of Factories
(USA: 2006, 68 mins. Spanish with English subtitles)
Thursday September 4, 2008, 5:30pm and 7:30pm

Several women workers in Tijuana's factories are given video cameras to make records of their lives, looking at issues related to when capital comes into a town and issues related to when capital leaves a town.

This event is cosponsored with the UM Students for Economic and Social Justice.

Afghanistan Unveiled
(Afghanistan: 2003 52 mins. French with English subtitles)
Thursday September 11, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm
A Film by Brigitte Brault and Aina Women Filming Group

Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film explores the effects of the Taliban's repressive rule and recent U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign on Afghani women.

Guest Speaker: Shakib Rajaieean, a Fulbright scholar from Afghanistan

Not In Our Town
(USA: 1995, 90 mins.)
Thursday September 18, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm
Produced by PBS and The Working Group

Not In Our Town tells the uplifting story of how the residents of Billings, Montana, joined together when their neighbors were threatened by white supremacists.

Libby, Montana
(USA: 2004, 115 mins.)
Thursday September 25, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm
Directed by Drury Gunn &Carr Doug Hawes-Davis
Produced in Missoula by High Plains Films
Nominated for 2008 Emmy Award, Best Documentary

Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies and along the crystal-clear Kootenai River lies the small logging town of Libby, Montana - an ironic setting for a town where many hundreds of people are sick or have already died from asbestos exposure.

Special Guest: Film Maker Doug Hawes-Davis.
Co-Sponsored by the UM Environmental Studies Department

Thursday October 2 & October 9, 2008
No Films These Weeks.

Pre-Election Special
Can Mr. Smith Get to
Washington Anymore?
(USA: 2006, 82 mins.)
Thursday October 16, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm
Written by Matt Coen & Mike Kime

Mr. Smith offers an unvarnished look at the inside of what national pundits called one of 2004's surprising campaigns. And the film asks if it is still possible in America for voters excited by a person's ideas and ability to get involved in the political process and elect a candidate who has not sold out, or bought into the existing political establishment

Pre-Election Special
American Blackout
(USA: 2006, 92 mins.)
Thursday October 23, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm
Directed by Ian Inaba

A look at the career of U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney from Georgia and the historical suppression of black voters in the United States. A rivetting look at how elections are really won and lost.

Thursday October 30, 2008
No Film This Week.

SiCKO
(USA: 2007, 123mins.)
Thursday November 6, 2008, 5:30pm and 7:45pm
Written & Directed by Michael Moore

The words "health care" and "comedy" aren't usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore's new movie SiCKO, they go together hand in (rubber) glove. SiCKO is not about those who are lacking in health insurance, rather it is about the problems faced by those who do have it.

Guest Speakers: Dr. Ned Vasquez, Family Practice physician and former president of the Western Montana Clinic, and Lee Tickell, Former Montana State Director of Medicare and Medicaid Services.

At The Death House Door
(USA: 2008, 98 mins.)
Thursday November 13, 2008, 5:30pm and 7:00pm
Directed by Steve James ("Hoop Dreams")
and Peter Gilbert ("Vietnam: Long Time Coming")

A personal and intimate look at the death penalty in the state of Texas through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous "Walls" prison unit in Huntsville.

This event is cosponsored with the Montana Abolition Coalition.

International Day Special
Well-Founded Fear
(USA: 2000, 119 mins.)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:45pm
A film by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini
Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival

This documentary film takes us to an in-depth look at the asylum process of the federal U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) knowns as USCIS today.

This event is cosponsored with the UM International Programs.

Thanksgiving!
Thursday November 27, 2008
No Film This Week.

Shorts Night
Thursday December 4, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm

SOA: Guns & Greed (USA: 2000, 22 mins.)
Narrated by Martin Sheen

The School of the Americas (SOA), though recently renamed as “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation," is still the United States' premier training school for Latin American military forces.

Between Bulls and Mosquitoes (USA: 2008, 30 mins.)
Produced here in Missoula, Montana by Emily Crawford and Solmaz Mohadjer

Mountainous, impoverished, and isolated, Tajikistan faces impediments to social progress that can turn natural phenomena into humanitarian disasters. In this region, advancements in Earth sciences hardly translate into practical geohazards awareness for a citizenry that remains largely oblivious to the scientific explanations of seismic events. A local geosciences student travels to the region to investigate how this can be changed.

Special Guests: Film makers Emily Crawford and Solmaz Mohadjer.

Rosie Revisited: (USA: 2008, 26 mins.)
A U.S. Led Solution to Global Warming

Rosie Revisited looks at global warming as being every bit as much of a threat as Nazism during World War II, and proposes concrete solutions that are not only good for the environment, but good for the economy as well.

Special Guests: Film Makers Holly Schroeder and Jane West, and Global Warming Solution.org's David Merrill.

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