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International - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Beyond TV political film festival Dec 1-2![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Undercurrents host the 8th Annual BeyondTV int'l documentary festival December 1st-2nd Includes December 1st Session *1 2pm On the Push- a new series about surfing and how climate change is affecting the waves. Banksy- Graffiti artist whose work now sells for £500,000. See the artist in action. Cheat Nuetral (13mins) Those who have cheated on their partners can have their cheating 'offset' by a global network of fidelity. Land Matters (30min) Living in Yurts near Totnes in South West England. An insight into the vibrant community of people living close to nature. Session *2 5pm EcoVillage Pioneers- (50mins) Discovering new ways of living in harmony with our natural environment. Focused mainly upon the uphill challenge in obtaining planning permission to establish a low impact community in Pembrokeshire. (Dir: Helen iles) Session *3 7.30pm Shock Doctrine (7min)-Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades (Dir Alfonso Curon) Beyond The Forest (28min) Can an action movie save the Indian Tiger from extinction? (Dir: Indivision Films) Burma and new media (Guy Horton) - films and discussion about how new technology is enabling campaigners to tell stories from repressive regimes. Big Noise Films- New York based video activists. Excerpts of their latest movie,‘Deserter’ and '4th World War' plus discussion with co-founder Rick Rowley. Coca Zero- (45mins)How the coca leaves of Bolivia has been turned into a criminal commodity through cocaine abuse in the West. (Dir: Martha Gutierrez Flores) December 2nd Sunday Session *4 Black Gold (95mins) - The bitter taste of injustice behind high street lattes and cappuccinos. How impoverished coffee growers suffer in this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price for Coffee. (Dir: Marc & Nick Francis) BeyondTv festival December 1-2 Swansea, South Wales.UK http://beyondtvfestival.info/ |