Screening

Community media centers throughout New York State are empowering young people to take back the media. Come see the best of their work, and join us for a "meet the youth media makers" potluck at 6 PM!

Co-sponsored by YouthFX and Grand Street Community Arts.

Screening cosponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop and the Troy Farmers Market

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.

Polished and informative, this is a must see for anyone with the slightest grain of environmental concern. Director Ian Connacher packs a real punch as director-narrator. Say "NO!" to plastic today. After seeing this film, you will too. Click here to read more about the film.

*Community tables before the screening, discussion afterwards.

AWARDS

Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, A Coruña,Galicia, Spain
- Winner - Youth Award

FICMA 2009 International Environmental Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
- Winner - Golden Sun Award - Best International Documentary

Sarajevo’s Eko-Oko Environmental Film Festival
- Runner up- Silver Snow Flake Award

A dark, romantic comedy about an isolated high school geek, who becomes the most popular kid in the school when he announces he's going to kill himself on camera for his final video class project. "Daddyless" will also be screened, with co-directors Chelsea and Victoria Kereszi.

What began as kids selling t-shirts out of a backpack has become one of the most respected DIY bicycle companies in the world. "I Love My Bicycle" follows the history of FBM Bike Company.

A Bike!Bike! party with live music will follow. Details TBA.

A portrait of Glendora Folsom Buell—a physicist, philosopher, and self-made television personality, still making weekly public access TV programs at age 81—and her search for God, Justice, and Happiness while preparing for death and the preservation of a legacy.

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!

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.