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SUMMARY:Author Reese Erlich
DESCRIPTION:Will the United States and Iran Find Themselves at War? In The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis (Poli Point Press\, 2007)\, author and journalist Reese Erlich shows how the U.S. government is planning to subvert the Iranian government and lie about it to the American people. He traces the troubled history between the two countries that has led to the current showdown over nuclear technology and he reports from Iran and northern Iraq to uncover details of how the U.S. has funded ethnic minorities to carry out guerrilla raids and terrorist bombings inside Iran. Potluck at 6 pm and talk at 7 pm. \n\n\n\nIn his previous book\, the best-selling Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You (co-authored with Norman Solomon\, 2003)\, Erlich presciently exposes the harsh realities and consequences of the run-up to the Iraq War and the media’s failure to present the full spectrum of the facts to the public.  \n\n\n\nReese Erlich has been a working journalist for 40 years– starting as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts\, an investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco from 1963 to 1975. Today he works as a freelance reporter\, regularly filing print and broadcast stories for the Canadian and Australian Broadcasting Corporations\, Radio Deutsche Welle and National Public Radio. His articles appear in the San Francisco Chronicle\, St. Petersburg Times and the Dallas Morning News. His television documentaries have aired on PBS stations nationwide.  \n\n\n\nProduced by the Iran Working Group of Upper Hudson Peace Action and co-sponsored by Women Against War and Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/author-reese-erlich/
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071020T210000
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SUMMARY:Journalists Dahr Jamail
DESCRIPTION:Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years.  He has reported extensively from inside Iraq for eight months and has also reported from Syria\, Turkey\, Lebanon\, and Jordan. Jamail has filed indispensable reports from Iraq that have made him this generation’s chronicler of the unfolding disaster there. In Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Haymarket Books\, 2007). Jamail brings us inside the Iraq we never see\, presenting never-before-published details of the first two years of the occupation.  \n\n\n\nNow\, as popular sentiment has turned against an occupation that has all but unraveled entirely\, demand for independent reports has grown. Jamail’s consistent visits to occupied Iraq and courageous record of reportage from Iraq\, Lebanon\, and Syria make him an invaluable voice of dissent\, bringing us inside Iraq inside the Iraq and Middle East we never see. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service\, The Asia Times\, and many other outlets. His reports have been published in The Nation\, The Sunday Herald\, The Guardian\, Foreign Policy in Focus\, and The Independent\, among other publications. On radio as well as television\, Jamail has reported for Democracy Now!\, and numerous other stations around the globe. Jamail is also a special correspondent for “Flashpoints” (KPFK Radio/Pacifica). He lives in California.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Women Against War. Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace and the Chatham Peace Initiative.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/journalists-dahr-jamail/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071108T210000
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SUMMARY:"Unmarketable: Brandalism\, Copyfighting\, Mocketing\, and Erosion of Integrity" with Author Anne Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Writer and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore investigates corporate America’s inroads into– and alliance with– the cultural underground in her just- published book\, Unmarketable: Brandalism\, Copyfighting\, Mocketing\, and Erosion of Integrity (The New Press\, 2007).  \n\n\n\nFor years the do-it-yourself (DIY)/punk underground has worked against the logic of mass production and creative uniformity\, disseminating radical ideals and directly making and trading goods and services. But what happens when the underground becomes just another market? What happens when the very tools that the artists and activists have used to build word of mouth are co-opted by corporate America? What happens to cultural resistance when it becomes just another marketing platform?  \n\n\n\nMoore is the co-editor of Punk Planet\, the Best American Comics series editor\, and the author of Hey Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People (Soft. Skull Press\, 2004). She has written for Bitch\, the Chicago Reader\, In These Times\, The Onion\, The Progressive\, and Chicago Public Radio WBEZ’s radio program 848. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/unmarketable-brandalism-copyfighting-mocketing-and-erosion-of-integrity-with-author-anne-elizabeth-moore/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071114T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071114T210000
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
DESCRIPTION:A Map With Gaps (2006)\, directed by Alice Nelson\, uses a combination of archive audio recordings\, still photographs\, drama reconstruction\, and animation. This surreal and comic tale is an account of a journey made by the director’s father through Soviet Russia in the early 1970s in a van he built and named “Supervan.” Truth can indeed be stranger then fiction\, and sometimes the area between the two is the most interesting place to explore.  \n\n\n\nIn Today’s Man (2006)\, directed by Lizzie Gottlieb\, Nicky Gottlieb is  a young man struggling to leave the comfort and safety of his parents’ home and find his place in the world.  While he can calculate the square root of any number in the blink of an eye\, he has trouble reading the simplest of facial expressions\, making social interaction difficult.  At the age of 21\, he is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome\, a high-functioning form of autism. This loving portrait by his filmmaker sister is both a personal exploration of one family’s journey and a broader effort to understand this mysterious disorder.  \n\n\n\nPart of iEAR Presents!\, co-sponsored by the Department of the Arts at RPI and funded in part by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts\, a state agency.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-3/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071116T210000
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SUMMARY:"Meeting Resistance" with Filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors
DESCRIPTION:Meeting Resistance (2007) is set in the streets\, alleyways and ubiquitous teashops of the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad.  It enters the physical and psychological heart of the “insurgency” against the American occupation.  Presented by photojournalist/directors Steve Connors and Molly Bingham\, who spent ten months among the insurgents there to create the exclusive\, unique\, and at once compelling and insightful film about their lives\, motivation\, and goals.  \n\n\n\nMeeting Resistance focuses on eight “insurgents\,” each with his or her own take and reasons for opposing the American-led occupation. All are people who\, within days of the fall of Baghdad\, were arranging themselves into resistance cells\, finding the money and weapons to fight against the American military.  The film witnesses how they began to organize themselves\, reveals why they have decided to violently oppose the occupation of the country\, and hears in their words the underlying ideological foundations to their fight and how and why those have changed over time.  \n\n\n\nThe directors’ unsurpassed access and visually stunning cinematography makes this film a one-of-a-kind; essential viewing for audiences around the world concerned with a deeper understanding of the current situation in Iraq\, and with the human condition of resistance.   \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Women Against War\, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace\, and the Chatham Peace Initiative.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/meeting-resistance-with-filmmakers-molly-bingham-and-steve-connors/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071119T190000
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SUMMARY:"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War" with Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson
DESCRIPTION:Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion\, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way\, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America’s military triumph as looting and score settling convulsed Iraqi cities.  Just twenty-five years old at the time\, Gilbertson soon landed a contract with The New York Times\, and his extraordinary images of life in occupied Iraq and of American troops in action began appearing in the paper regularly.   \n\n\n\nWhiskey Tango Foxtrot (The University of Chicago Press\, 2007) gathers the best of his photographs\, chronicling America’s early battles in Iraq\, the initial occupation of Baghdad\, the insurgency that erupted shortly afterward\, the dramatic battle to over take Fallujah\, and ultimately\, the country’s first national elections.  This wide-ranging treatment of the war from the viewpoint of a photographer is the first of its kind.  In it he grapples with the reality that Iraq – despite the sacrifice in Iraq and American lives – has descended into a civil war with no end in sight.   \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Women Against War and Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-a-photographers-chronicle-of-the-iraq-war-with-photojournalist-ashley-gilbertson/
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260814T142430Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
DESCRIPTION:Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi\, 2005\, Cameroon). “Men are going to get the message now.”  The lawyers and judges in one small courthouse in Kumba\, Cameroon are helping to transform women’s and children’s lives by protecting them from domestic violence.  From the maker of Divorce Iranian Style and Gaea Girls comes this latest project celebrating dynamic women in non-traditional roles.  A testament to how a few strong women can help to make an impact on individual lives as well as traditional world-views. \n\n\n\nPart of iEAR Presents!\, cosponsored by the Department of the Arts at RPI and funded in part by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts\, a state agency.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071205T203000
DTSTAMP:20220330T185141Z
CREATED:20071205T153400Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
DESCRIPTION:Flock of Dodos (Randy Olson\, 2006). Who are the dodos in the current debate over evolution versus intelligent design?  With a Super Size Me – style good spirit\, marine biologist turned filmmaker Randy Olson travels the country in search of an answer.  He starts with his 82 year old mother who is neighbors with the top lawyer for intelligent design in Olson’s home state of Kansas\, which is the epicenter of the controversy.  This film gets beyond the tedium of the “debate” of who’s right and who’s wrong.  Instead\, it explores how those who embrace each side are “communicating” their ideas to the public.   \n\n\n\nPart of iEAR Presents!\, co-sponsored by the Department of the Arts at RPI and funded in part by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts\, a state agency.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-2/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071207T203000
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SUMMARY:"The Business of Being Born" Screening
DESCRIPTION:Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything\, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child\, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to examine and question the way American women have babies. The Business of Being Born interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical\, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director Epstein discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film\, the journey becomes even more personal. Should most births be viewed as a natural life process\, or should every delivery be treated as a potentially catastrophic medical emergency?  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by BirthNet.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-business-of-being-born-screening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071214T210000
DTSTAMP:20220614T171644Z
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SUMMARY:"What Would Jesus Buy?" Screening
DESCRIPTION:What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism\, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! From producer Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him\, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer’s jacket\, bleached his hair and became the Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping.  \n\n\n\nSince 1999\, Reverend Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit preaching on subways\, to the leader of a congregation and a movement whose numbers are well into the thousands. Through retail interventions\, corporate exorcisms\, and some good old-fashioned preaching\, Reverend Billy reminds us that we have lost the true meaning of Christmas.  \n\n\n\nWhat Would Jesus Buy? is a journey into the heart of America – from exorcising the demons at the Wal-Mart headquarters to taking over the center stage at the Mall of America and then ultimately heading to the Promised Land … Disneyland. Will we be led like Sheeple to the Christmas slaughter\, or will we find a new way to give a gift this Christmas? What Would Jesus Buy? may just be the divine intervention we’ve all been searching for. The Shopocalypse is upon us …Who will be $aved?
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/what-would-jesus-buy-screening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080201T210000
DTSTAMP:20230320T154850Z
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SUMMARY:Brian De Palma's "Redacted"
DESCRIPTION:The exclusive Capital Region release of Brian De Palma’s fictional documentary\, Redacted (2007). De Palma (Carrie\, Dressed to Kill\, The Untouchables\, Mission Impossible) won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2007 Venice Film Festival for this movie\, a fictional story inspired by true events in Iraq. “The only Iraq film I would rank alongside No End in Sight in the category of essential viewing.” (Scott Fondas\, LA Weekly). Screenings will take place on both February First and February Second\, 2008. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace\, Women Against War and Chatham Peace Initiative. \n\n\n\nRedacted Poster\n\n\n\nAbout the Film:\n\n\n\nDe Palma won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2007 Venice Film Festival for this film\, a fictional story inspired by true events. Redacted is a unique cinematic experience that pushes viewers to radically reconsider the filters through which we see and accept events in our world\, the power of the mediated image and how presentation and composition influence our ideas and beliefs. \n\n\n\nCentered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq\, Redacted alternates points of view\, balancing the experiences of these young men under duress and members of the media with those of the local Iraqi people\, illuminating how each have been deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other. The charged apotheosis of Brian De Palma’s filmmaking career\, Redacted caps off a body of work which has explored the politics of image-making and reception more fully than any living filmmaker.  \n\n\n\n“Once again a senseless war has produced a senseless tragedy\,” says De Palma. “I told this story years ago in my film ‘Casualties of War.’ But the lessons from the Vietnam War have gone unheeded. How to tell the story today? And how did it all begin? Last year at the Toronto Film Festival I was approached by a representative of HDNET films who asked if I would be interested in making a film using high definition video. I said I would if I could find a subject matter that would be best explored in the medium. Then I read about an incident in the Iraq War where members of a US army squad had reportedly raped a 14 girl\, slaughtered her family\, shot the girl in the face and set her body on fire. How could these boys have gone so wrong? In searching for the answers\, I read soldier’s blogs\, books\, watched soldier’s home made war videos\, surfed their web sites\, and their ‘YouTube’ postings. It was all there\, and all in video. “To redact is to edit\, or prepare for publishing. Frequently\, a redacted document or image has simply had personal (or possibly actionable) information deleted or blacked out; as a consequence\, redacted is often used to describe documents or images from which sensitive information has been expunged. The true story of our Iraq War has been redacted from the mainstream corporate media. If we are goings to cause such disorder then we must face the horrendous images that are the consequences of these actions. Once we saw them in Vietnam our citizens protested and brought that misguided conflict to an end. Let’s hope the images from this film have the same effect.” \n\n\n\nAbout Brian De Palma:\n\n\n\nBrian De Palma/Scott Wintrow: Getty Images\n\n\n\nWriter/director Brian De Palma has showcased his filmmaking talents in diverse films ranging from thrillers such as “Sisters\,” “Obsession\,” “Dressed to Kill\,” “Body Double” and “Snake Eyes\,” to the blockbuster action film “Mission: Impossible\,” the acclaimed police dramas “Scarface\,” “The Untouchables” and “Carlito’s Way” to the unique visions in “Carrie” and “Phantom of the Paradise. “De Palma has also directed war films\, comedies and science fiction.  \n\n\n\nBorn in Newark\, New Jersey on September 11\, 1940\, De Palma grew up in Philadelphia where his father was an orthopedic surgeon. Early on\, De Palma became fascinated by physics and went to Columbia College to study the subject. He soon changed paths and began studying first theater\, then cinema.  \n\n\n\nIn 1960\, he made his first mid-length feature\, “Icarus\,” followed by “6601224\, The Story of an IBM Card” and “Wotan’s Wake\,” for which he received several awards. De Palma undertook his first full-length feature\, “The Wedding Party\,” while studying at Sarah Lawrence College. “The Wedding Party\,” a semi-improvised comedy\, would be Robert De Niro’s and Jill Clayburgh’s film debuts. After this first film\, De Palma went on to do several documentaries and short films\, including “The Responsive Eye\,” and put on an exposition of Op Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  \n\n\n\nIn 1967\, he made his second full-length feature\, “Murder à la Mod\,” a sophisticated thriller packed with Hitchcockian references. The anti-establishment fever of the sixties led him to make the satirical comedies “Greetings” (Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival) and “Hi Mom\,” which lifted him into the ranks of young American filmmakers. The big Hollywood studios began paying attention to De Palma\, but it was his modest independent production “Sisters\,” which brought his first big success. Breaking away from the semi-improvisational style of his previous films\, he made apparent that his talent for writing\, his sense of construction\, his framing and rhythm were worthy of the best Hollywood directors.  \n\n\n\nTwo years after his success\, De Palma made the musical thriller “Phantom of the Paradise” which came away with the Grand Prize from the 1975 Avoriaz Film Festival. In 1976\, he (with Paul Schrader) wrote and directed “Obsession\,” a romantic thriller starring Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold\, followed by “Carrie\,” which triumphed worldwide and earned Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie Oscar nominations. The film\, which also featured Nancy Allen\, John Travolta and Amy Irving\, remains one of the most brilliant adaptations of a Stephen King novel. Its famous last scene\, as well as others\, has been widely imitated over the years.  \n\n\n\nIn 1977\, De Palma directed Kirk Douglas\, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving in “The Fury\,” a spy film that combined the occult with political fiction. In 1978\, he made “Home Movies\,” a semi-autobiographical comedy starring Kirk Douglas and Nancy Allen\, with the assistance of fellow film students from Sarah Lawrence.  \n\n\n\nIn 1980\, De Palma returned to suspense with “Dressed to Kill\,” starring Michael Caine\, Nancy Allen and Angie Dickinson\, then went on to write and direct “Blow Out\,” which explored two of his major themes: voyeurism and politics.  \n\n\n\nIn 1982\, Brian De Palma directed a baroque\, hyper-violent remake of “Scarface” from an Oliver Stone screenplay\, starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer.  \n\n\n\nIn 1984\, he made “Body Double\,” which gave Melanie Griffith her breakthrough role. Leaving behind the film genre which had made him famous\, Brian went on to direct “The Untouchables\,” a huge spectacular saga about prohibition which earned its star\, Sean Connery\, an Oscar\, and launched the careers of Kevin Costner and Andy Garcia.  \n\n\n\nIn 1989\, Brian directed Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn in the war film “Casualties of War” and in 1990\, he adapted Tom Wolfe’s satirical novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities\,” which starred Tom Hanks\, Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis.  \n\n\n\nIn 1992\, De Palma returned to thrillers with “Raising Cain\,” which starred John Lithgow and Lolita Davidovich\, as well as directing Al Pacino in “Carlito’s Way.” \n\n\n\n In 1996\, he brought together Tom Cruise\, Jon Voight\, Emmanuelle Beart and Jean Reno in “Mission: Impossible\,” a tribute to the cult television series.  \n\n\n\n“Mission: Impossible” became an enormous international success and was followed by “Snake Eyes\,” starring Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise\, as well as his first science fiction film\, “Mission to Mars\,” which starred Gary Sinise\, Tim Robbins\, Don Cheadle and Connie Nielsen.  \n\n\n\nMost recently\, De Palma directed Josh Hartnett\, Hilary Swank\, Aaron Eckhart and Scarlett Johansson in the 2006 film noir thriller\, “The Black Dahlia\,” an adaptation of the popular novel by James Ellroy. \n\n\n\nPress: \n\n\n\n“An amazingly vigorous work and De Palma’s strongest cinematic statement since ‘Casualities of War’” — Richard Corliss\, Time \n\n\n\n“The only Iraq film I would rank alongside ‘No End in Sight’ in the category of essential viewing” — Scott Fondas\, LA Weekly \n\n\n\n“A sensational film. De Palma’s filmmaking skills have seldom been a razor sharp” — Ray Bennett\, Hollywood Reporter \n\n\n\n“De Palma’s anger and frustration with the media course through ‘Redacted’ like an electrical current” — Stephanie Zacharek\, Salon
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/brian-de-palmas-redacted/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080215T210000
DTSTAMP:20230109T030552Z
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SUMMARY:"King Corn" Screening with Panel
DESCRIPTION:Director Aaron Woolf’s entertaining feature-length documentary about the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm. Complimentary organic popcorn and corn-free sodas for all.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Honest Weight Food Co-Op as well as Roots and Wisdom. \n\n\n\nKing Corn movie still\n\n\n\nKing Corn is a feature film documentary about the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Almost everything Americans eat contains corn: high fructose corn syrup\, corn-fed meat\, and corn-based processed foods are the staples of the modern diet. Ready for an adventure and alarmed by signs of their generation’s bulging waistlines\, college friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis know where to go to investigate. \n\n\n\nEighty years ago\, Ian and Curt’s great-grandfathers lived just a few miles apart\, in the same rural county in northern Iowa. Now their great-grandsons are returning with a mission: they will plant an acre of corn\, follow their harvest into the world\, and attempt to understand what they—and all of us—are really made of. \n\n\n\nThey move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors\, genetically modified seeds\, and powerful herbicides\, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most productive\, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system\, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. \n\n\n\nKing Corn movie poster\n\n\n\n“Genetically engineered corn can be ‘hidden’ in everyday grocery items ranging from bread\, to soda\, to the ramen noodles you had for lunch\,” Karisa Centanni\, Education Coordinator at the Honest Weight Food Co-op\, comments. “The same genes that comprise this ‘corn’ are showing up in our hair and skin\, believe it or not\, yet we have no idea about the kind of biological and environmental changes this may cause over a long period of time.” Immediately following the screening a panel comprised of two local\, organic farmers—Leslie Herd and Chris Kemnah—and Louise Maher-Johnson\, a non-GMO activist who has coordinated two statewide lobby days (2005 and 2006) to inform legislators about transgenic food\, will be available as part of a panel discussion and to answer audience questions and concerns. \n\n\n\nYouth gardeners from Roots and Wisdom will serve corn-free\, New-England-made sodas and organic popcorn during a pre-screening reception\, beginning at 6 PM\, and following the film. They will talk with attendees about the important role they are playing to recover the local foods system through farming themselves. All sales of concessions will go directly to programming for Roots and Wisdom. \n\n\n\nRoots and Wisdom is a youth agriculture and community service program bringing together Schenectady County residents to grow organic vegetables for donation to local food pantries and for sale locally. Participants learn about sustainable agriculture\, nutrition\, hunger\, and diversity. Roots and Wisdom creates genuine change by helping county residents in need and providing youth with opportunities to work hard and grow. \n\n\n\nThe Honest Weight Food Co-op\, founded in 1976\, is open to the public seven days a week. A member-owned and -operated organization\, Honest Weight Food Co-op is committed to providing the community with affordable\, high quality natural foods and products for healthy and ecologically sustainable living. The store offers a full line of brand-name grocery products\, more than 500 domestic and imported cheeses from rBGH-free dairies\, an extensive selection of bulk foods\, and the area’s widest selection of locally produced food products. Honest Weight Food Co-op is centrally located at 484 Central Avenue\, between Partridge and Manning\, in Albany\, NY. \n\n\n\nThis presentation is made possible in part by volunteer labor and hundreds of small donations from patrons of The Sanctuary for Independent Media.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/king-corn-screening-with-panel/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T203000
DTSTAMP:20230320T154714Z
CREATED:20220331T161545Z
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SUMMARY:"A Love During the War" Screening with Filmmaker Osvalde Lewat-Hallade
DESCRIPTION:What are the consequences when rape is used as a weapon of war? Osvalde Lewar-Hallade’s moving documentary A Love During the War (2005) explores the question from the perspective of women in Africa\, where this tragedy is witnessed again and again. One of the emerging voices of feminist African filmmaking\, the Cameroonian director Osvalde Lewat-Hallade is well on her way to becoming her continent’s Kim Longinotto or Barbara Kopple\, forging direct cinema with activist power. Osvalde Lewat-Hallade will be present for audience questions at a screening of her film. Part of the African Film Festival program.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation is co-sponsored by the Arts Department at RPI and made possible by volunteer labor\, hundreds of small donations from patrons of The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and support from the Electronic Media & Film program at the NYS Council on the Arts. \n\n\n\nStill from A Love During War.\n\n\n\nAbout the Film:\n\n\n\nA Love During the War is a docudrama following the experiences of a journalist who is separated from her husband when the Democratic Republic of Congo erupts into civil war. She reunites with her husband in Kinshasa\, but the memory of the horrors suffered by other women during the war still haunts her. Despite her husband’s protests\, she returns to Eastern Congo to find that the legacy of violence continues to infect the lives of women young and old. However\, not everyone remains a victim as women have started denouncing the abuses they suffered. \n\n\n\nA Love During the War manages a remarkable feat\, telling an uplifting story of love that is utterly uncontrived\, while situating it within the context of a bloody war and the horrifying phenomenon of systematic rape committed by militias and armies in the Congo. \n\n\n\nThe two lovers in question are journalist Aziza and her husband Dedier\, who are separated by the outbreak of the Congo-Kinshasa war in 1996\, a conflict that eventually claimed the lives of three million people. Direct\, riveting interviews reveal the angst Aziza and Dedier endured throughout their six-year-long severance. \n\n\n\nThrough the actions of Aziza\, who takes an interest in the brutal experiences of a young girl who was gang-raped by several uniformed men\, director Osvalde Lewat-Hallade seamlessly synthesizes a personal story with an examination of the use of rape as a tool of war. The result is stirring and ultimately galvanizing\, as one cannot help but feel awed by the courage and resilience of women who have overcome stigma and trauma to speak out. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Director:\n\n\n\nOsvalde Lewat-Hallade started her career as a journalist. She produced her first documentary\, Upsa Yimoowin (The Pipe of Hope) in Toronto in 2001. That film denounces the sidelining of Native Americans. Her second film\, Beyond the Pains\, was made in 2003 and is based on the life of a prisoner who was sentenced to four years in jail for a minor crime and ends up being imprisoned for 33 years. Beyond the Pains was the recipient of the TV Film Prize at the Avanca City Festival and of the Human Rights Prize at the Vues d’Afrique Festival in Montreal. A Love During the War\, her latest documentary film\, won two jury mentions in Fespaco and the Montreal Film Festival. She has just completed a feature film\, “Black Business.”
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/a-love-during-the-war-screening-with-filmmaker-osvalde-lewat-hallade/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T213000
DTSTAMP:20230626T145254Z
CREATED:20080530T162100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T145254Z
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SUMMARY:Termite TV Collective Talk and Screening
DESCRIPTION:Termite TV is a video collective with members based in Philadelphia\, Baltimore and Buffalo. Founded in 1992 with a mission to create experimental and activist work to challenge the status quo and provide an alternative to corporate media. Termite TV has produced more than 40 programs broadcast nationally on television and screened at festivals and museums worldwide. The presentation will take place at Digital Artist Space\, 27 2nd Street in downtown Troy.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/termite-tv-collective-talk-and-screening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T220000
DTSTAMP:20230626T153438Z
CREATED:20080531T144300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T153438Z
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SUMMARY:"Venezuela Rising" screening with Filmmaker Jennifer Wager
DESCRIPTION:As seen through the eyes of grandmother and community organizer Gladys Bolivar\, the documentary Venezuela Rising follows her and her compatriots five days before it is to be decided by popular referendum whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will continue in office or step down. The entire nation has been mobilized–will it be SI–yes he will be recalled\, or NO–he will remain in office. Most in Venezuela feel that no less than the entire future of their country is at stake. \n\n\n\nIssues of democracy and politics are addressed–what constitutes a free and fair election–and is that enough to ensure citizen participation? How are elections the ultimate measure of a thriving democracy? \n\n\n\nVenezuela Rising gets behind the headlines and into the neighborhoods of Caracas to find out how participatory democracy works on the ground.Jennifer Wager is a NYC media educator and director of the film. She currently teaches video production and post-production at Manhattan Neighborhood Network\, the flagship community TV station in the U.S. \n\n\n\nShe also serves on the board of the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops\, with whom she has facilitated a community video oral history project\, producing a DVD and Web-based series of short films on the lives of immigrant and working class women from the Lower East Side. Since 1995\, Ms. Wager has created several online experimental education projects\, including the Smithsonian-award winning W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University. Ms. Wager holds a M.A. in African Studies from Ohio State University and a M.A. in Communication and Technology from Georgetown University. This is her second documentary on Venezuela. Her first\, Hij@s de Bolivar\, was shot in the months immediately following the 2002 coup.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/venezuela-rising-screening-with-filmmaker-jennifer-wager/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080606T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080606T213000
DTSTAMP:20230626T154227Z
CREATED:20080606T145500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T154227Z
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SUMMARY:"The Lost Generation" with Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
DESCRIPTION:Internationally-celebrated filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will speak at a screening of her new film The Lost Generation at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Friday\, June 6\, 2008 at 7 PM. Admission is by donation ($10 suggested\, $5 student/low income). \n\n\n\nLocal presentation of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace\, made possible by volunteer labor and small financial contributions from hundreds of patrons of The Sanctuary For Independent Media. \n\n\n\nSharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is the first non-American journalist to be awarded the prestigious Livingston Award and the youngest recipient of the One World Media broadcast journalist of the year award in the United Kingdom. \n\n\n\nOver the past seven years she has produced and reported on 13 films for major networks in the United States and Britain including CNN\, PBS\, Channel 4 (U.K.) and the Discovery channel. Her work has earned her major awards in broadcast journalism including the Overseas Press Club Award\, The American women and Radio and Television award\, The Cine Golden Eagle Award\, The Banff TV Rockie award and the South Asian Journalist Award. \n\n\n\nIn her latest film–The Lost Generation (2008)–filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates the biggest and most catastrophic refugee crisis in the Middle East since the Palestinian diaspora of 1948. \n\n\n\nIn the past five years more than four million Iraqis–20 per cent of the entire population–have been driven from their homes as a result of the war and sectarian bloodshed. Two million have become exiles\, living desperate lives across the border in Syria and Jordan. \n\n\n\nThe film travels to Syria and Jordan to investigate the plight of Iraqi refugees. These are the very people on whom the new\, democratic Iraq was to be built–the professional middle classes–nearly half of whom now live as desperate refugees\, driven out by the violence and civil breakdown. \n\n\n\nSharmeen’s work has taken her to more than ten countries around the world. Her career in documentary filmmaking began when she examined the plight of Afghani refugee children in Pakistan for one of her articles. Their situation was so dire\, and their stories so compelling\, that Sharmeen decided to return to Pakistan and create a film about them. She petitioned Smith College and New York Times Television production division for the grants that would allow her to accomplish her goals. Intrigued by her story\, both organizations gave her the funds as well as production equipment and training. \n\n\n\nBorn in Karachi\, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was the first woman in her Pakistani family to receive a Western education. Obaid graduated from Smith College with a bachelor of arts in economics and government and then went to complete two master’s degrees from Stanford University in International Policy Studies and Communication.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-lost-generation-with-filmmaker-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T210000
DTSTAMP:20230626T155906Z
CREATED:20080611T150600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T155906Z
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SUMMARY:"Energy Reality Check: A CoRE Project Special Event"
DESCRIPTION:So the cost of a gallon of gas has reached $4.00. Yet our nation is consuming imported oil and natural gas at a steadily increasing rate. Meanwhile\, we may now have passed through the pivotal point of “Peak Oil\,” leaving the world with an inexorably diminishing supply of oil in the face on continuously growing demand. When we look to our leaders for solutions\, the best they can come up with is a “Gas Tax Holiday”!!  \n\n\n\nThe folks at the CoRE Project think it’s time for an “Energy Reality Check.” There is mounting evidence that high energy prices are here to stay and that still higher prices are on the way. Prices for gasoline are already $8/gal in Ireland and $12 in England. Retired University of New Hampshire professor Clifford Wirth will be in Troy will present his analysis of just how serious is the predicament that we are facing\, followed by a panel discussion. Event includes a community potluck. \n\n\n\nClifford Wirth leads a group of professionals with diverse backgroundsin academics\, energy policy\, oil industry\, engineering\, electricutilities\, economic development\, applied policy analysis\,environmental science\, and local\, state\, and federal government. Thegroup is experienced in practical problem-solving\, contingencyplanning\, and risk management. They are dedicated to advisingindividuals and organizations on how to best handle the challenges ofPeak Oil. \n\n\n\nThe Community Renewable Energy (CoRE) Project is a loosely constitutedgroup of concerned citizens from the Hudson-Mohawk region who work toraise awareness of energy issues and advocate for conservation and amigration to less energy intensive public infrastructure.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/energy-reality-check-a-core-project-special-event/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080909T213000
DTSTAMP:20230626T153005Z
CREATED:20090909T153200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T153005Z
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SUMMARY:Doug Blackmon on "Slavery by Another Name"
DESCRIPTION:Filled with archival photographs\, Doug Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name is the true account of the re-enslavement of African Americans from the end of the Civil War until World War II.   \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Christ Church United Methodist in Troy. \n\n\n\nContrary to public understanding\, emancipation did not end slavery for hundreds of thousands of people in the southern U.S.   African Americans were arrested for minor offenses\, often for no offense at all\, and sentenced to hard labor in coal mines\, lumber camps\, farms\, and mills across the South.  Most were never released from deplorable working and living conditions.  This system\, which Blackmon calls Neo-Slavery\, did not end until the coming of World War II.  \n\n\n\nThe book is a sad story of a dark period in American history\, but it is a history that we all should know.  Doug has been a journalist for more than 20 years. He was editor of the Daily Record in Little Rock\, Arkansas\, and a reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before joining the Wall Street Journal in 1995. As a young journalist\, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the civil war in Yugoslavia. His work has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written extensively about race in America\, religion\, the economy\, and numerous other social issues. In fact\, he has been writing and speaking about race since he was in the seventh grade in the Mississippi Delta. Douglas Blackmon lives in Atlanta with his wife\, Michelle\, and their children\, Michael and Colette.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/doug-blackmon-on-slavery-by-another-name/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T210000
DTSTAMP:20220404T163046Z
CREATED:20080921T154700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T163046Z
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SUMMARY:"Body of War" with Filmmaker Dee Dee Halleck
DESCRIPTION:Tomas Young\, 25 years old\, was paralyzed by a bullet to his spine after serving in Iraq for less than a week. Body of War (2007) follows Tomas as he comes to terms with his disability and finds his own unique and passionate voice against the war. This documentary was produced and directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro. Legendary community media activist Dee Dee Halleck\, who played a major role in bringing this story to film\, will speak about the film. Iraq War vet Tyler Boudreau will sign copies of his new book Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Independent Living Center of the Hudson Valley\, Women Against War and Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/body-of-war-with-filmmaker-dee-dee-halleck/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T210000
DTSTAMP:20220607T151603Z
CREATED:20080915T165000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T151603Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Carlson and "Nowtopia": Practical Rebellion & A New Politics of Work
DESCRIPTION:How do the Open Source software movement\, bicycle subculture\, guerilla gardening\, and the Burning Man Festival fit together? Nowtopia (2008) author and Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson connects these dots as he profiles the social networks that are cooperating outside of economic regulation and laying the foundation for a genuine movement of liberation from market life. The event will feature an installation by the Rhizome Collective. Valet bike parking available. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Troy Bike Rescue and the New York Bicycling Coalition.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/chris-carlson-and-nowtopia-practical-rebellion-a-new-politics-of-work/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Performance
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