Welcome to the Winter-Spring 2010 Peace & Justice Film Series!

This season we will show a variety of films to capture all interests. Most films will address current and pressing issues of our time, and we hope to provide a place for education and for people to speak out their opinions and learn their options for action. These films will be showing almost every Thursday from February 4 to May 6, 2010. We hope you will join us in watching and discussing these films.

Schedule: We will be showing documentary and historical films most Thursdays from February 4th through May 6th, 2010. The films examine many important questions of our time from a variety of perspectives. All events start at 7:00pm.

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.

Change of Time: In the past we screened each film twice in an evening, and showed all of them in the U.C. Theater. Due to budget cuts, we can only afford to screen each fim once. All events will start at 7:00pm. Also, there are two evenings this season that we are showing these films in the Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Please note the correct location on your way here.

What will Military Escalation Achieve in Afghanistan?
Rethink Afghanistan
(USA: 2009, 75mins.)
Directed by Robert Greenwald
Thursday February 4, 2010, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

What will military escalation achieve in Afghanistan? Can the war further destabilize a nuclear-armed Pakistan? The staggering costs of the war could easily exceed $1 trillion! The civilian casualties caused by recent U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan are extensive. Rethink Afghanistan questions the assumption that war can liberate Afghan women, and shows three former high-ranking CIA agents explaining why there is no "victory" to be won in Afghanistan.

A Transgender Family Story From Here in Missoula
Red Without Blue
(USA: 2007, 77 mins.)
Directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, and Todd Sills
Thursday February 11, 2010, 7:00pm,
U.C. Theater

Red Without Blue follows a pair of identical twins over a period of three years as one transitions from male to female in an artistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship. Through the power of the Farleys' voices, we hear the story of a family's redemption from a dark past, and ultimately, its revival to the present.

Guest Speaker Bree Stephany Sutherland of Montana Transgender Day of Recognition

No Film This Week Because of the
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Thursday February 12 – 21, 2010

A Guilty New York Liberal Decides to Practice What He Preaches
No Impact Man
(USA: 2009, 93 mins.)
Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein
Thursday February 25, 2010, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.  This film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a media sensation, while examining the familial strains and bonds that result from their radical lifestyle change.

5th Annual Missoula Labor Film Festival
A Perfect Compliment to the Peace & Justice Film Series
Friday & Saturday February 26 & 27 , 2010

Thursday March 4, 2010
No Film This Week.

What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You!
Split Estate
(USA: 2009, 90 mins.)
Directed by David Redmon
Thursday March 11, 2010, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

Split Estate tells the story of citizens fighting back against the oil and gas industry that is aggressively buying up new leases for the mineral rights to land in Garfield County, Colorado, and as many as 32 other states.  These residents have little or no recourse as the gas companies that own the mineral rights to their land drill for oil — even when feet from their front doors.

Shorts Night
Thursday March 18, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

In the Background of The Iraq War Is an Invisible Army
Someone Else's War (USA: 2007, 25 mins.)
Produced & Directed by Lee Wang

In the background of the war in Iraq is an invisible army made up of more than 30,000 low-wage workers from South and Southeast Asia. Working for a fraction of what American contractors earn, without health or life insurance, and living in segregated camps comparable to indentured servitude, these Asian workers do the dirty work on U.S. military bases—cleaning toilets, serving food and driving some of the most dangerous roads in the country.

Why the US Government Spends Millions Prosecuting Two Shoshone Elders
American Outrage (USA: 2008, 33 mins.)
Directed by George and Beth Gage

American Outrage follows Carrie and Mary Dann, feisty Western Shoshone sisters who have endured five terrifying livestock roundups by armed federal marshals in a dispute over the grazing rights on gold-producing, Western Shoshone land that swept to the United States Supreme Court and eventually to the Organization of American States and the United Nations. 

What Does The World Think of America?
The Listening Project
(USA: 20009, 93 mins.)
Directed by Dominic Howes & Joel Weber
Thursday March 25, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

The Listening Project is a captivating cinematic journey around the world in search of the meaning of America. The film follows four unique Americans through fourteen countries – from a Shanghai hip-hop club to a war-ravaged Kabul neighborhood to a village at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro – in each place asking “what do you think of America?”

Thursday April 1, 2010
Spring Break! No Film This Week...

A Documentary About the First Victims of Global Warming
The Last Days of Shishmaref
An Inupiaq Community Swallowed by the Sea
(The Netherlands: 2008, 90 mins.)
Directed by Jan Louter
Thursday April 8, 2010, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

An astounding documentary on the first victims of global warming, The Last Days of Shishmaref travels to a small village in northwest Alaska, home to an Inupiaq Eskimo community, where homes are literally falling into the sea. The entire village is expected to disappear within 10 years.

Tag Line Needed
Tax Day Shorts
Thursday April 15, 2010, 7:00pm
Urey Underground Lecture Hall

France's Fishing Communities Show the Path to Sustainability
Weather The Storm: (Canada: 2008, 36 min)
The Fight to Stay Local in the Global Fishery
Directed by Charles Menzies and Jennifer Rashleigh

Globalization has been hard on the ocean resources. Small local fishing communities have been trying to stay sustainable in the face of this competition. This film shows small-scale artisanal fishers explaining the benefits for staying local.

Tax Resisters and their Motivations
Death & Taxes (USA: 2009, 30 min)
Produced by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

Twenty-eight people offer their motivations for, and methods of, resisting the war machine with their tax money. This tightly paced 30-minute film introduces viewers to war tax refusal and redirecting tax dollars to peace. Is anything worth a tangle with the IRS?

Holding the Patents to Much of the Planet's Food Supply
The World According to MonsanTO
(USA: 2008, 109 mins.)
Directed by Marie-Monique Robin
Thursday April 22, 2010, 7:00pm
Urey Underground Lecture Hall

The World According to Monsanto is an in-depth documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural and food industry by one of the world’s most powerful and dominating corporations, holding the keys and patents to much of the worlds food supply.

Alaska to Chile in a Biodiesel Fire Truck. Without a Drop of Petroleum!
Oil + Water
(USA: 2007, 55 mins.)
Produced by Seth Warren and Nick Franczyk
Thursday April 29, 2010, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

Oil + Water tells the story of two world-class kayakers and good friends who embark on the longest-ever petroleum-free road trip, traveling over 21,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina in a retro-fitted Japanese fire truck named Baby. 

Two Guys Who Can't Take “No” For An Answer
The Yes Men Fix the World
(USA: 2009, 87 mins.)
Produced by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno
Thursday May 6, 2010, 7:00pm
Urey Underground Lecture Hall

The Yes Men Fix The World is a screwball true story that follows two daring and imaginative political activists — Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno — as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight how corporate greed is destroying the planet. Hope explodes at the end of this film with a power that may take audiences straight out of the theater and into the barricades.

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