Montana Peace & Justice Film Series, Fall 2010

<BODY BACKGROUND="images/autumn_background.jpg"> <P>Note: This web site is designed to be viewed by a web browser that supports "Frames." If you see this message it means that your browser does not. Soon, this site will be updated so that those with older browsers that don't support frames may use it too. Until then, here is a simple listing of the films to be displayed in Peace & Justice Film Series:</P> <h1 align="center"> <strong></strong><strong><br> Welcome to the Fall 2010 Peace & Justice Film Series!</strong></h1> <p align="left" class="list-description">It is not often that Missoula, Montana finds itself at the crossroads of world issues. This year, we find ourselves facing the possibility of “Big Rigs,” trucks that are 24 feet wide, 30 feet tall and 210 feet long moving through Missoula carrying mining equipment to the Alberta tar sands in Canada. We open the series this season with <strong>H2Oil</strong>, a film about the tar sands and the effects that mining has on the native people, their environment and the global climate. We continue the theme of energy with the films <strong>Crude</strong> and <strong>Kilowatt Ours</strong>. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description">Of equal importance, we will show <strong>The Most Dangerous Man in America</strong>, the story of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. That history is very timely as the information that WikiLeaks.org gives us evidence of recent US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. <strong>Taxi to the Dark Side</strong> is an Oscar winning documentary about torture in Afghanistan, and <strong>Breaking the Silence</strong> is a film about torture survivers worldwide. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description">And we are showing the controversial documentary <strong>The Price of Sugar</strong>, originally scheduled for last March, but pulled at the last minute because of the controversy. Rounding out the season are <strong>Un Poquito de un Tanto Verdad, Salt of the Earth</strong> and the shorts <strong>The Story of Cap and Trade, Nourish</strong> and <strong>The Story of Bottle Water</strong>. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>Schedule: </strong>We will be showing documentary and historical films most Thursdays from September 2nd through December 9th, 2010. The films examine many important questions of our time from a variety of perspectives. <strong>All events start at 7:00pm</strong>. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>Location:</strong> All films will be screened on the University of Montana campus. Some will be in the U.C. Theater and others will be in the Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Please carefully note the location listed with each film. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong><strong><a name="discussion"></a></strong>Admission:</strong> Donations Appreciated! No one is turned away. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>There will be a lively and respectful discussion after each screening of every film.</strong> 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.</p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><strong>In Canada's richest province, the war for water has already begun</strong><br> <span class="list-title"><a href="h2oil.html" target="Main_Frame">H<sub>2</sub>Oil</a></span><a href="Afghanistan.html" target="Main_Frame"></a><span class="list-year"><br> (Canada: 2009, 76 min.)<br> </span><span class="list-credits">Written & Directed by Shannon Walsh </span><span class="list-year"><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday September 2, 2010, 7:00pm<br> <span class="list-location">U.C. Theater</span></span></p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><span class="description">The United States imports more oil from Canada than from any other country. Of that, the majority comes from the Alberta Tar Sands. Mining the tar sands is destroying the Athabasca River andthe health of the native people there. It's also a major source of greenhouse gases. It is controversial here in Missoula because of the "Big Rig" trucks </span>bringing mining equipment to Alberta. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>Special Guest Speakers: Mike Phelps</strong>, Northern Rockies Rising Tide; <strong>Zack Porter</strong>, No Shipments Missoula.</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="description"><strong>A $27 billion lawsuit pits 30,000 rainforest dwellers <br> against the US oil giant Chevron</strong></span><a href="crude.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Crude</span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 2009, 104 min.) <br> <span class="list-awards">A Film by Joe Berlinger </span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday September 9, 2010, 7:00pm<br> </span><span class="list-location">Urey Underground Lecture Hall</span></p> <p class="list-description"><em>Crude</em> tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet: the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” lawsuit pitting 30,000 rainforest dwellers in Ecuador against the U.S. oil giant Chevron. Winner of 19 international awards, <em>Crude</em> takes you inside a riveting, high stakes drama steeped in global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures.</p> <p class="list-description"><strong>Special Guest Speaker: Larry Evans</strong>, <span class="description">Missoula‘s Mushroom Guru. Larry worked with local groups near the Lago Agrio petrol lagoons, the subject of Crude, to use oyster mushrooms for remediation.</span> </p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-description"><strong>An Act of Conscience that Shocked the World </strong></span><a href="dangerous.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">The Most Dangerous Man<br> in AMeriaca<br> </span><span class="list-subtitle">Daniel Ellsber and the Pentagon Papers</span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 2009, 94 min.) <br> <span class="list-awards">Directed by Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday September 16, 2010, 7:00pm<br> </span><span class="list-location">U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">A riveting story of how one man’s profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America’s newspapers, president and Supreme Court—a political thriller whose events led directly to Watergate, Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.  Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world.</p> <p class="list-description"><strong>Special Guest Speakers: Dr. Clem Work</strong>, UM Dept. of Journalism;<strong> Prof. Larry Howell</strong> UM School of Law. </p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><strong class="list-description">When the people of Oaxaca decided they’d had enough of bad government,<br /> they didn’t take their story to the media… They TOOK the media!</strong><a href="poquito.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad</span><br /> <span class="list-subtitle">(A Little Bit of Too Much Truth)</span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (Mexico: 2008, 90 min.) <br> <span class="list-awards">Produced, Directed, Written, and Edited by Jill Irene Freidberg</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday September 23, 2010, 7:00pm<br> </span><span class="list-location">Urey Underground Lecture Hall</span> </p> <p class="list-description"><em>A Little Bit of So Much Truth</em> captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-description"><strong>In 2002, a young cab driver picked up a few passengers <br /> near his home in Afghanistan... He never returned. </strong></span><a href="dark_side.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Taxi to the Dark Side </span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 2009, 94 min.) <br> <span class="list-awards">Winner 2008 Academy Award: Best Documentary Feature</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday September 30, 2010, 7:00pm, <br> </span><span class="list-location">U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><strong class="list-description">Ever wonder what it would be like to be tortured?</strong><a href="breaking.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Breaking the Silence </span><br /> <span class="list-subtitle">Torture Survivors Speak out </span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 2007) <br> <span class="list-awards">Produced by Valliere Richard Auzenne and Terry Coonan</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday October 7, 2010, 7:00pm<br> </span><span class="list-location">Urey Underground Lecture Hall</span> </p> <p class="list-description">Interviews with torture survivors from Africa, The Philippines, South America, The Middle East and the U.S. It also examines the political issues and current US legislation regarding the use of torture.</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><span class="list-date-time"></span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday October 14 & 21, 2010 </span><br> <em>No Films These Weeks.</em></p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-description"><strong>The bitter truth about sugar production</strong></span><a href="sugar.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">The Price of Sugar </span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA/Dominican Republic: 2007, 90 min.) <br> <span class="list-awards">Directed by Bill Haney, Narrated by Paul Newman</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday October 28, 2010, 7:00pm, <br> </span><span class="list-location">Urey Underground Lecture Hall </span></p> <p class="list-description">Thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane for U.S. kitchens. <em>The Price of Sugar</em> follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. </p> <p class="list-description">This is the controversial film that was cancelled just before it was scheduled to be screened last March on the UM Campus. Come find out why. <span class="description"><strong>Legal Notice:</strong> UM Students for Peace & Justice and the UM Peace & Justice Film Series neither endorse the contents of <em>The Price of Sugar</em> nor assume the veracity of its contents.</span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><span class="list-date-time"></span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday November 4 & 11, 2010 </span><br> <em>No Films These Weeks.</em></p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-description"><strong>Chicano Miners Striking in New Mexico in the 1950s </strong></span><a href="salt.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Salt of the Earth </span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 1953, 94 min.) <br> <span class="list-awards">Directed by Herbert Biberman</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday November 18, 2010, 7:00pm<br> </span><span class="list-location">U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">A dramatization of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><br> <span class="list-subtitle">Thanskgiving Break</span><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/" target="_blank"><span class="list-subtitle"> <br> </span></a><span class="list-date-time">Thursday November 25, 2010</span><span class="list-awards"><br> No Film This Week</span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><strong>A Solutions-oriented Look at <br> America’s most Pressing Environmental Challenges</strong><a href="kilowatt_ours.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Kilowatt Ours </span> </a><span class="list-year"> <br> (USA: 2008, 56 mins.) <br> </span><span class="list-awards">Produced by Jeff Barrie and Southern Energy Conservation Initiative</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday December 2, 2010, 7:00pm<br> </span><span class="list-location">U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">Filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself and asks, “How can I make a difference?” In his journey Barrie explores the source of our electricity and the problems caused by energy production including mountain top removal, childhood asthma and global warming. Along the way he encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities who are leading the way, using energy conservation, efficiency and renewable, green power all while saving money and the environment. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, “You can easily make a difference and here’s how!”</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="shorts.html" target="Main_Frame">Shorts Night</a></span><strong class="list-description"> <br> </strong><span class="list-description"><span class="list-date-time">Thursday December 9, 2010, 7:00pm</span></span><span class="list-date-time"><br> </span><span class="list-location">U.C. Theater</span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-description"><strong>Cap and trade for dummies</strong></span> <br> </a><a href="shorts.html" target="Main_Frame" class="list-subtitle">The Story of Cap & Trade</a><span class="list-year"> (USA: 2009, 10 min.)</span><span class="list-credits"><br> <span class="list-awards">Written by Annie Leanord, Louis Fox and Jonah Sachs</span></span></p> <p class="list-description"><span class="description">A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill.</span> But, the "devil's in the details..." </p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><strong>Telling the real story of food</strong><a href="shorts.html" target="Main_Frame" class="list-subtitle"> <br> Nourish</a> <span class="list-year">(USA: 2009, 26 min.)<span class="list-credits"><br> <span class="credits">Hosted by Cameron Diaz, Interviews include Michael Pollan</span></span></span></p> <p class="list-description"><span class="description"><em>Nourish</em> aims to open a broad public conversation about our food system that encourages citizen engagement, particularly among young people and families.</span></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><strong class="list-description">Ever Wonder Why We Buy Water When We Can Get It Free From the Tap?</strong><a href="shorts.html" target="Main_Frame" class="list-subtitle"><br> The Story of Bottled Water</a><span class="list-year"> (USA: 2010, 9 min.)<span class="list-credits"><br> <span class="list-awards">Written by Annie Leanord, Louis Fox and Jonah Sachs</span></span></span></p> <p class="list-description">The story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. </p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><strong>Contact Us! We Want to Know What You Want to See</strong>.</p> <p class="description">To be on our mailing list, please send your e-mail address:  <a href="mailto:Info@PeaceAndJusticeFilms.org">Info@PeaceAndJusticeFilms.org</a></p> <p class="description">To send requests for next season's films, please mail us at  <a href="mailto:Info@PeaceAndJusticeFilms.org">Info@PeaceAndJusticeFilms.org</a></p> <p align="right"><strong><em>Web Design by Robbie Liben</em></strong></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> </BODY>