Montana Peace & Justice Film Series, Winter-Spring 2011

<BODY BACKGROUND="images/autumn_background.jpg"> <P class="description">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> Welcome to the Peace & Justice Film Series!</strong></h1> <p align="center" class="list-description"><strong> Welcome to the Winter-Spring 2011 Peace & Justice Film Series!</strong></p> <p align="left" class="list-description">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 3 to April 28, 2011. We hope you will join us in watching and discussing these films. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>Schedule: </strong>We will be showing documentary and historical films most Thursdays through April 28th, 2011. All events start at 7:00pm. Almost all films will be shown in the U.C. Theater at the University of Montana. The only exception will be Teachings of the Tree People on April 21. That will be shown in the Urey Underground Lecture Hall, also on the University campus. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>Admission:</strong> By Donation. No one is turned away. </p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong><a name="discussion"></a>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="bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-date-time"><strong class="list-description"><strong><em>“We’re stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up</em></strong></strong>”</span><br> <span class="list-title"><a href="suburbia.html" target="Main_Frame">The End of Suburbia<br> <span class="list-subtitle">Oil Depletion and the <br> Collapse of the American Dream</span> </a></span><span class="list-year"><br> (Canada: 2004, 78min.)<br> </span><span class="list-credits">Feturing Michael Klare & James Howard Kunstler </span><span class="list-year"><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday February 4, 2011, 7:00pm<br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><span class="description">Since World War II, North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all its promises, has become the American Dream.</span> In the era of “Peak Oil”, it now appears that this dream is no longer sustainable. What can be done, and what are the consequences of inaction? </p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span align="center" class="list-title"><a href="http://www.missoula-labor.info/" target="_blank" class="list-subtitle">6th Annual Missoula Labor Film Festival</a></span><br> <span class="list-date-time">A Perfect Compliment to the Peace & Justice Film Series<br> Friday & Saturday February 4 – 5, 2011<br> At the Roxy Theater, Missoula</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"><span class="list-date-time"><strong>Do you know what your rights are if you're stopped by police?</strong></span><a href="police.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">10 Rules for Dealing With Police </span></a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 2009, 40 min.) <br> <span class="credits">By Roger Sorkin and Rubin Whitmore II</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday February 10, 2011, 7:00pm</span><span class="list-date-time">, <br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">Narrated by the legendary trial lawyer William "Billy" Murphy, Jr. (from HBO’s <em>The Wire</em>), <em>10 Rules for Dealing with Police</em> depicts innocent people dealing with heavy-handed policing tactics used every day in the United States.  Do you know what your rights are if you're stopped by police? Most people don't, and the consequences can be severe. From simple misunderstandings to illegal searches and excessive force, a bad police encounter can happen to anyone. But after watching <em>10 Rules for Dealing with Police</em>, you'll be more confident and better prepared to handle every kind of police situation.</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-awards"> <a name="big_sky"></a>No Film This Week Because of the</span><br> <a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/" target="_blank"><span class="list-subtitle">Big Sky Documentary Film Festival<br> </span></a><span class="list-date-time">Thursday February 11 – 20, 2010</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"><strong>The rise of apocalyptic Christian nationalism <br /> from the fever swamps to the center of American empire</strong></span><a href="silhouette.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Silhouette City </span> </a><span class="list-year"> <br> (USA: 2006, 88 min.) <br> </span><span class="list-credits">by Michael W. Wilson & Natalie Zimmerman</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday February 24, 2011, 7:00pm</span><span class="list-date-time"><br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description"><em>Silhouette City</em> spans the evolution, commercialization, and politicization of religious extremism. Beginning with the survivalist sect called <em>The Covenant, The Sword & The Arm of the Lord</em> and ending with the advancement of the Christian Right, <em>Silhouette City</em> leaves no stone unturned.  The documentary dually functions as an informing essay and an eye-opening plummet into an unsettling realm of fundamentalist ideology and religious intolerance. It ends with a note of hope as ahorrific crime is diverted. </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 class="list-date-time">The murder that ignited the Asian American civil rights movement</strong><a href="vincent.html" target="Main_Frame"><br> <span class="list-title">Vincent Who? </span> </a><span class="list-year"> <br> (USA: 2010, 40 min.) <br> </span><span class="list-credits">Winner of the 2009 Media Award <br /> from the National Association for Multicultural Education</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 3, 2011, 7:00pm<br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">In 1982, Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers who said, "it's because of you mother** that we're out of work." When the judged fined the killers a mere $3,000 and three years of probation, Asian Americans around the country galvanized to form a real community and movement. This documentary, inspired by a series of townhalls organized by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress on the 25th Anniversary of the case, features interviews with key players at the time, as well as a whole new generation of activists. “Vincent Who?” asks how far Asian Americans have come since then and how far we have yet to go.</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"><strong class="list-date-time">A shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health</strong><a href="thecove.html" target="Main_Frame"><span class="list-title"><br> The Cove </span></a><span class="list-year"> <br> (USA: 2009, 90 min.) <br> </span><span class="credits">2009 Academy Award: Best Feature Documentary</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 10, 2011, 7:00pm</span><span class="list-date-time"><br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-date-time">It’s Been 50 Years Since President Eisenhower <br> Warned of the Military-Industrial Complex </span><span class="list-title"><br> <a href="war.html" target="Main_Frame">War Made Easy<br> <span class="list-subtitle">How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death</span></a></span><strong class="list-description"> <br> </strong><span class="list-description"><span class="list-year">(USA: 2009, 90 min.) </span><span class="list-date-time"><span class="list-year"><br> </span></span><span class="list-credits">2009 Academy Award: Best Feature Documentary</span><span class="list-date-time"><br> Thursday March 17, 2011 7:00pm</span></span><span class="list-date-time"><br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. </p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-date-time">You Can't Vote Them Out When The Fix Is In</span><span class="list-title"><a href="hacking.html" target="Main_Frame" class="list-title"><br> Hacking Democracy </a></span><span class="list-year"> <br> (USA: 2006, 82 min.)<span class="list-credits"><br> Directed by Simon Ardizzone, Robert Cohen & Russell Michaels</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 25, 2011, 7:00pm<br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">The shocking HBO documentary <em>Hacking Democracy</em> exposes the secrecy, cronyism, and incompetence of US elections as it captures a citizen’s movement intent on taking back elections — and democracy itself.  The film the Diebold Corporation doesn’t want you to see follows Bev Harris and her band of citizen-activists as they ask: How does America count its votes?</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"><span class="list-year"><strong class="list-date-time">The Classic Documentary about the Vietnam War </strong></span><br> <span class="list-title"><a href="hearts.html" target="Main_Frame">Hearts and Minds </a></span><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 1974, 112 min.)</span><br> <span class="list-credits">1974 Academy Award, Best Documentary</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 31, 2011, 7:00pm</span><span class="list-date-time"><br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description"> Peter Davis’s landmark documentary <em>Hearts and Minds</em> unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam. A recounting of the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as their own film and interviews. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, the film is an overwhelming emotional experience and the controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award for Best Documentary.</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"><span class="list-date-time">Thursday April 7, 2011</span><br> <em>Spring Break! No Film This Week...</em></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><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">A tragedy where children are both the weapons and the victims</span><br> <span class="list-title"><a href="children.html" target="Main_Frame">Invisible Children<br> </a></span><span class="list-subtitle"><a href="children.html" target="Main_Frame">Rough Cut</a></span> <span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 2003, 55 min.)</span><br> <span class="list-credits">Directed by Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey & Laren Poole</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday April 14, 2011, 7:00pm</span><span class="list-date-time"><br> U.C. Theater</span></p> <p class="list-description">In the spring of 2003, three young Americans traveled to Africa in search of a story. What they found was a tragedy that horrified and inspired them: children are the weapons and the victims of war. The “Invisible Children: Rough Cut” film exposes the effects of a 20 year-long war on the children of Northern Uganda. These children live in fear of abduction by rebel soldiers or are being forced to fight as a part of a violent army.</p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><strong class="list-date-time">Hear the Voice of the Natural World</strong><span class="list-title"><a href="teachings.html" target="Main_Frame" class="list-title"><br> Teachings of the Tree People<br> <span class="list-subtitle">The Work of Bruce Miller</span></a></span><span class="list-year"> <br> (USA: 2006, 58 min.) <span class="list-credits"><br> By Katie Jennings and Tracy Rector</span><br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday April 21, 2011, 7:00pm</span><span class="list-date-time"><br> <span class="style1">Location: Urey Underground Lecture Hall</span></span></p> <p class="list-description">Known to the Skokomish people of the Pacific Northwest as “subiyay,” Bruce Miller interpreted the silent teachings of the natural world for anyone who wanted to learn.  This gentle and generous film documents his race against time and ailing health to pass the knowledge of his ancestors on to those who would listen.</p> <p align="center" class="list-description"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-description"><span class="list-date-time"><strong>The life and work of Native American poet-prophet-activist John Trudell</strong></span><br> <a href="trudell.html" target="Main_Frame"><span class="list-title">Trudell</span> </a><span class="list-year"><br> (USA: 2009, 87 min.)<br> </span><span class="list-credits">Produced by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday April 28, 2011, 7:00pm<br> Urey Underground Lecture Hall</span></p> <p class="list-description">In <em>Trudell</em>, filmmaker Heather Rae presents the engaging life story of Native American poet-prophet-activist John Trudell, one of the most insightful and eloquent philosophers of our time. Trudell’s heartfelt message of active, personal responsibility to the earth, all of its inhabitants, and our descendants is clear and self-evident.  At its most basic level, Trudell is an eye-opening documentary that challenges belief systems.  At its loftiest, Trudell will inspire you to reawaken your spirit.</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>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></p> <p align="center"> </p> </BODY>