Screening

The award-winning feature-length documentary "Ciclovida: Lifecycle" pedals alongside a group of small farmers from Brazil who bicycle more than 6,000 miles across the South American continent.

They use the year of travel to exchange natural seeds, songs, and ideas about new ways of relating to the land. Moving stories from landless peasants, indigenous communities, and small farmers inform the travelers and viewers understanding of the struggle to survive in the face of global agribusiness incursion and the takeover of mono-crops for making biofuel.

With practically no money and no support crew, the protagonists rely entirely on their resourcefulness and the solidarity of people they meet along the way. They carry with them only the simplest of necessities, their radical ideas and philosophy, collected heirloom seeds, and a video camera.

Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace?

In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From IRAN, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to BURMA, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to BRAZIL, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in PALESTINIAN refugee camps in LEBANON, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, CULTURES OF RESISTANCE explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.

NY Shout Out! features great work by youth media makers across NY State!  NY Shout Out! - the second annual youth media film festival, is created in collaboration with Youth Media Sanctuary and Youth FX.  Come meet these young artists and celebrate their accomplishments! 

This rad film fest features:

•  Green Guerillas Youth Media Tech Collective, Ithaca

• HarlemLive, NYC  

Want to know how to derail a $100 million greenwashing campaign? Do you need to raise the ire of the US Chamber of Commerce to the point they'll sue you? How about grappling with insane Canadian climate policy. Find out how to do all this and more, as  Mike Bonanno of The Yes Men reveals all about the group's recent activities.

Come meet Mike!  Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo whose tactical media hijinks spotlight the pressing issues of our times.

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.