Screening

Community media groups in the Capital Region and surrounding regions are empowering young people to take back the media. Media offers a megaphone to the hearts and minds of young people. Come see the best of their work!

This youth media festival features the voices of youth active in organizations, including:

Please join us for a reception and information-sharing session at 7pm. The film will begin at 8pm, and will be followed by a group discussion on plastic reduction and reuse facilitated by Steve Davis.

Screening cosponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop and the Capital District Community Gardens.

Representatives from local plastic-alternative groups Ecovative Design, Ecolibrium, and Sonrise Diaper Service will be sharing information and demonstrating plastic-reduction strategies, at tables in the Sanctuary from 7 to 8pm.

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No ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. What eventually happens to all the plastic in water bottles, packaging, and hundreds of other everyday uses? This documentary offers a visually compelling, entertaining, ultimately frightening explanation.

5:30pm Potluck: meet & greet the filmmakers, plus "Daddyless," an installation by Chelsea and Victoria Kereszi

7pm Screening

"MY SUICIDE is unlike anything you have ever seen ... A visual stream of consciousness."
—Mike Goodridge, Screen International

Veer explores America’s fast-growing bicycling culture by profiling five people whose lives are inextricably tied to bicycling and the bike-centric social groups they belong to. The film follows these characters over the course of a year, offering a behind-the-scenes look at their personal struggles and triumphs. Veer examines what it means to be part of a community, and how social movements are formed.

Check out www.veerthemovie.com

At 9pm, the stage will welcome Blister Pack (Worcester, MA), and BEWARE! The Other Head of Science for the Bike!Bike! Northeast party.  The Bike!Bike Northeast gathering of bicycle motivators from all throughout the Northeast will be taking place during the day of April 24th.  Interested?  Join us!

6:00pm Vegan Potluck,
Come early to eat and chat with Glendora before the screening!
Since Glendora is Vegan, please bring a non-dairy and/or non-meat dish to share.

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A Chat With Glendora  (2010, 58 minutes, digital video)
Glendora Folsom Buell is a physicist, philosopher, and self-made
television personality who continues to create weekly public access
television programs at age 81.  In this feature documentary portrait,
Glendora describes the early days of local broadcast and cable TV and its
connection to her search for God, justice, and happiness.  As she prepares
for her death and plans her funeral throughout the course of the film she
attempts to preserve the legacy of community television and the everyday
local voices that she has captured in her six-decade career.  The film seeks
to uncover the unique power in Glendora's self-representation and
solidifies the importance to preserve all of our stories and to write our
collective histories.

A dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure, by a New York-based media artist whose work strives to address concerns of the Latino community through a highly stylized cinematic language of genre, satire, digital imaging, and anything else that might serve the cause.

Co-sponsored by the Arts Department at Rensselaer. Part of iEAR Presents!

See the trailer and read more reviews here.

About Alex Rivera

Alex Rivera is a New York City based digital media artist and filmmaker.  Rivera's first feature film, SLEEP DEALER premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Award. His work has been screened at The Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, The Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues.

The screening will be preceded (from 7-8pm) by a reception sponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop and information tables from local organizations.

The Climate Crisis Film That Focuses on the Big, Moral, Human Stuff

In the year 2055 - now a ravaged, war-torn, flooded world - an unnamed archivist, played by Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite, is entrusted with the safekeeping of humanity's surviving store of art and knowledge. Alone in his offshore repository, he reviews archive footage from back "when we could have saved ourselves," trying to discern where it all went wrong. Amid news reports of the gathering effects of climate change and global civilization teetering towards destruction, he alights on the stories of seven individuals whose lives in the early years of the 21st century seem to illustrate aspects of the impending catastrophe. These stories take the form of interweaving documentary segments that report on the lives of real people in the present, and switch the film's narrative from fiction to fact.

Screening co-sponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop, and The Community Renewable Energy (CoRE) Project, Capital District Local First

A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity.

We never see the bomb; we only see the backpack and headphones that disguise the detonator as a young woman prepares to become a suicide bomber.

A story of the courage, resolve, creativity, and solidarity of the workers at Republic Windows and Doors who stood up for their rights after being thrown out of work three weeks before Christmas 2008.

Click here to view the trailer.

Co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace and the Troy Area Labor Council.

Workers’ Republic
(Filmmaker: Andrew Freund, 2009, 62 min)
"When the economy fell, they stood up."
http://www.workersrepublic.tv

Three weeks before Christmas 2008, in the depths of the economic crisis, Chicago company Republic Windows and Doors told their workforce that the factory was closing shop. Republic executives complained about dwindling sales due to the crash of the housing market. Three days later, when the Republic employees came in to pick up their final paychecks, they were informed that they would not be paid for their final week or receive their accrued vacation pay. Their insurance benefits were cut immediately, and they were denied the 60-day severance guaranteed under the federal WARN Act.

A new Academy Award-nominated drama about Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still fragile German democracy.

The radicalised children of the Nazi generation led by Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past.

Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold (Bruno Ganz). And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he’s only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.