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OCTO= BER 3-5, 2003

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

CLASSROOM BUILDING, ROOM 304

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FOR INFORMATION CALL:

(307) 399-1723

OR VISIT:

Thanks to the generous support of ASUW, the departments = of Philosophy, English and International Studies and the University of Wyomi= ng Amnesty International, all screenings are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Seats will be made available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

FESTIVAL PROGRAM:

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Friday, OCTOBER 3

4.30= pm ANONYMOUSLY YOURS

Director: Gayle Ferraro

2002. Burma/USA. 87 min. Burmese with English subtitles<= o:p>

Four Burmese women’s strikingly different life experiences come together to reveal= an institution that enslaves them and as many as forty million women worldwide= in the fastest growing industry on earth: human sales. Clandestinely shot deep= in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex trafficking, the film chronicles= the merchandising of women that is commonplace in a land afflicted with stagger= ing poverty and widespread corruption.

6.05pm = DROWNED OUT

Director: Franny Armstrong

2002. United Kingdom. 75 min. English and various languages with English subtitles

Three choices: move to the slums in the city, accept a p= lace at a resettlement site, or stay at home and drown. The people of Jalsindhi = in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their village will disapp= ear underwater as the giant Narmada Dam fills. Bestselling author Arundhati Roy joins the fight against the dam and asks the difficult questions. Will the water go to poor farmers or to rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 million people displaced by fifty years of dam building? Why should I care? DROWNED OUT follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality, and a six-year Supreme Court case. It stays with them as = the dam fills and the river starts to rise...

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7.25pm RESPIRE=

2003. France. 3 min.

An environmental animated music video from t= he French band Mickey 3D.

7.30pm THE COCONUT REVOLUTION<= /span>

Director: Dom Rotheroe

2002. United Kingdom. 52 min. Engli= sh

Bows and arrows against helicopter gunships – and bows won. With a bit of help from the coconut. This has been the world’s first successful ecological revolution. Bougainville is a sma= ll island off the coast of Papua New Guinea. No one really cared when the British company Rio Tinto Zinc bulldozed jungle and proceeded to dig the word’s largest open-cast mine there in the sixties. Then in 1989, the indigenous inhabitants revolted. By dodging through the shoot-to-kill gunbo= at blockade, the filmmaker and the sound recordist documented this David and Goliath story of the 21^st century.

8.30pm GIRLHOOD

Director: Liz Garbus

2003. USA. 82 min. English

GI= RLHOOD tells two coming-of-age stories from the real America: Shanae, ten years ol= d when she was gang-raped by five boys, responded by drinking and drugging, and th= en graduated to murder, with the stabbing death of a friend, at age 11. Megan, whose mother abandoned her to turn tricks to support her ravaging heroin addiction, ran away from ten different foster homes before being arrested f= or attacking another foster child with a box cutter. Both girls ended up in the Waxter Juvenile Facility, home to Maryland’s most violent juvenile offenders. With unprecedented access to the system an= d to the complex interior lives of the protagonists, GIRLHOOD follows Shanae and Megan over the next three years of their lives, as they struggle to come to terms with their crimes, their pasts, and their futures.

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Saturday, October 4

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4.30pm = JEREMY HARDY vs. THE ISRAELI ARMY

Director: Leila Sansour

2003. United Kingdom. 75 min. English

British comedian Jeremy Hardy decides to travel to Palestine in March= 2002 to become a part of an international solidarity group struggling for the right= s of Palestinians. However, he win= ds up getting more than he bargained for when he is caught in the crossfire during the invasion of Bethlehem by the Israeli army. At times humorous, at times harrowing, this documentary portrays both an individual’s perilous but enlightening journey, and the solidarity gr= oups who put their lives at risk in Palestine.

6.00= pm RESI= STENCIA: HIP= -HOP IN COLOMBIA

Director: Tom Feiling

2002. United Kingdom. 51 min. Spanish with English subtitles

RESISTENCIA is a radical and thought-provoking exploration of how young Colombians feel about the crisis afflicting their country. It chronicles a summer in the lives of some of Colombia’s finest rappe= rs, DJs and breakdancers, offering a glimpse of the countries long-running civil war through the eyes of youth directly affected by it. Its style is youthful and entertai= ning, but also angry and enlightening.

7.00pm = SEARCH FOR FREEDOM

Director: Manizae Jehangir

2003. Pakistan. 54 min. English, Pashtu, Durri and Urdu with English subtitles <= /span>

This is a documentary film that explores the personal li= ves of four Afghan women, who are based in Pakistan. Through a feminist = lens, this film portrays how the lives of these women were affected by the politi= cal and social turmoil in Afghanistan, from the 1920’s to the present day. The film features Princess Shafiqa Saroj, who is the youngest sister of the King Amanullah (1919-1929); Mairman Khadija Parveen, the fist woman to sing on Afghan Radio; Mohsina, a survivo= r of a Taliban massacre; and Sohaila, a medical student who played a key role in= the establishment of secret schools during the Taliban rule. =

7.55pm = REFUGEES

Directors: Tobias Khol, Marisa Marinho Pinto<= /span>

2000. Italy. 10 min. English

A short film produced by Colors magazine that provides a glimpse into the experiences of the refugees fleeing the fighting in East Timor.

8.15pm = BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN<= /o:p>

Directors: Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer

2003. USA. 84 min. English

During his 60-year career as an activist, organizer, and “troublemaker,” Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement. His passionate belief in Gandhi= 217;s philosophy of nonviolence drew Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders to= him in the 1940s and 50s; his practice of those beliefs drew the attention of t= he FBI and police. But his open homosexuality forced him to remain in the background, marking him again and again as a “brother outsider.”= BROTHER OUTSIDER combines rare archival footage – some of it n= ever before broadcast in the U.S. – with provocative interviews to illuminate the life and work of a forgotten prophet of social change and a powerful force behind the civil ri= ghts movement.

A Q&A with the filmmaker will follow.

Sunday, October 5=

4.30pm = AND ALONG CAME A SPIDER

Director: Maziar Bahari

2002. Iran. 53 min. Farsi with English subtitles

A sho=
cking portrait of the world of a recently captured serial killer, who sees =
his killing of prostitutes as according with Islamic teaching. Over the spa=
ce of a year, 16 women were murdered in the Iranian city of Mashad. Because th=
e victims were lured into the killer’s traps, the press soon called t=
hese the “spider killings.” All but one of the victims had prev=
iously been arrested for prostitution and drug-related crimes. When a 39-ye=
ar-old contractor is arrested and confesses to the crimes, he claims divine=
 support for the atrocities he has committed. His mother, wife, son, and ma=
ny neighbors agree. And Along Came a Spider visits wi=
th the families of the victims, with the perpetrator and his family, and wi=
th prostitutes in this holy city. This is a chilling film about cycles of m=
oral vengeance.leaders regarding the problems Indian people currently face =
in practicing their ceremonies.

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5.30pm TULIA, TEXAS<= b>: SCENES FROM THE DRUG WAR

Director: Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

2002. USA. 26min. English

A loo= k at the collateral consequences of the Drug War in America. A federally funded undercover anti= -drug sting is undertaken in the small agricultural town of Tulia, Texas= . The resulting fall-out is the imprisonment of more than 10 percent of Tulia's African-American community.=

6.00pm = BOMBIES

Director: Jack Silberman

2001. USA. 57 min. English

This film portrays the terrible aftermath of the droppin= g of cluster bombs during the secret air war over Laos at the end of the Vietna= m War, and the current international campaign to ban these horrific weapons. It also examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately, cluster b= ombs are still a standard part of the U.S. arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and most recently in Iraq.

7.15pm = DISCOVERING DOMINGA

Director: Patricia Flynn

2002. USA. 58 min. English, Spanish, and Mayan with English subtitles

A young Iowa mother discovers she is a survivor of one of the most horrific episodes in Guatemala<= /st1:place>’s 36-year-long civil war. Denese Becher (born Dominga Sic Ruiz) was a nine-year-old Maya Indian girl living = in a remote highland village in 1982 when soldiers and paramilitary patrollers killed her parents and more than 200 other villagers in what became know as= the Massacres at Rio Negro. The young Dominga escaped to the mountains, running from army troops and at age eleven was adopted by a coup= le from Iowa. Dominga became Denese, with a new = family and a new identity. Years lat= er, housewife and manicurist Denese Joy Becker wonders whether her nightmares a= nd scattered memories of the violence are true.

DISCOVERING DOMINGA documents Becker’s personal odyssey from the cornfields of her adoptive Iowa to the highlands of = Guatemala on a journey of self-discovery and political awakening. As she uncovers the truth of her p= ast and the atrocities committed against the Maya people, this shy young woman becomes a witness in a landmark human rights case that seeks to prosecute f= ormer military commanders responsible for the genocide.<= /p>

8.30pm = STATE OF DENIAL

Director: Elaine Epstein

2002. South Africa. 86 min. English

STATE OF D= ENIAL takes an unprecedented look at how the citizens of South Africa are living with = the AIDS epidemic in a climate of confusion and neglect. The film offers a moving account o= f a society struggling to overcome the harsh realities of illness, global healthcare, inequities, and government paralysis. Intimate conversations capture the unbreakable spirit of a people determined to conduct their lives with digni= ty, grace, and humor. Providing c= ontext to these personal stories are candid, in-depth interviews with some of the country’s most notable politicians, health-care professionals and activists. =