Film Club: Archive 2006
FRIENDS OF LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - FILM - PROGRAMME 2006
The cafe-diplo programme of talks is being extended to take in a film programme of showings of independent film makers work with following discussion.
VENUE: THE HUB, 5 TORRENS ST, LONDON EC1V 1NQ
TIME: 6.30- 8.30 8 October
Terri Murray
Native Ohioan Terri Murray is an independent documentary film producer and managing director of Blacksheep DV Productions. She is a graduate of NYU film school and lives in London, where she also teaches film studies. She has produced three feature documentaries, including a two part-series on police corruption and brutality and first amendment rights abuses during the Giuliani years in New York City.
Film - Invisible Coup
If you thought hanging chads were a cause for concern, wait until you learn about invisible computer code. With the 2004 American election looming, native Ohioan Terri Murray reveals how Republican insiders have taken control of America’s transition to electronic voting. A sampling of irregularities from various states uncovers serious flaws in the technology, and deliberate attempts at a cover-up. Murray’s interviews with elections officials, journalists, computer experts and citizens in five states reveals something rotten at the heart of the American electoral process.
For further information:
Harry Levinson
telephone: 0208 348 2811
E-Mail: harry.levinson@decorart.co.uk
VENUE THE HUB, 5 TORRENS ST, LONDON EC1V 1NQ
TIME 6.30- 8.30 Sunday 12 November
David Kaplowitz
David Kaplowitz is a London-based documentary film director and head
of Third Stone Films. His current project FOOD ON EARTH, is a trip
through our global food system, the industrial giants that dominate
it, and the local and sustainable alternatives. His last documentary
film, IN WHOSE INTEREST?, is a journey through the past 50 years of
U.S foreign policy and has been shown at festivals and screenings
around the world. Other work includes HIP HOP CUBANO a short piece on
the rap scene in Havana. David's day job is IT support and consulting.
SYNOPSES:
Film - IN WHOSE INTEREST?
London based filmaker David Kaplowitz leads us on a fast moving
journey through the past fifty years of US intervention, questioning
the motives and examining the effects of US foreign policy from
Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor, El Salvador, Palestine and Israel.
Film - FOOD ON EARTH (a documentary film in progress)
FOOD ON EARTH is an innovative and essential 90-minute documentary
film on humankind’s relationship with food and the Earth. The film
will explore the starkly opposed approaches of the industrial giants
of agriculture versus small-scale, local, organic, and sustainable
agriculture.
As we stand on the verge of what some call a revolution in food
production and what some call an impending disaster, FOOD ON EARTH
will clarify the enormity of what’s at stake for the world’s people,
the planet’s health and our legacy to future generations.
VENUE THE HUB,5 TORRENS ST, LONDON EC1V 1NQ
TIME 6.30- 8.30 Sunday 10 December
Euan Donaldson
Euan Donaldson is a freelance video technician and editor working in the advertising and television sector. He trained at South Wales University in Film and Multi-Media and was awarded a Fuji Scholarship for his work on the film 'The Phone Call', in 1995.
Euan runs a non-profit organization called 'Filmmakers Against War', volunteers with indymedia, a world wide network of radical media activists, and also has been recently organizing political film screenings in West London.
Euan will show some examples of his work and discuss his experience of trying to create spaces of freedom for political and campaigning films.
