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Fourth World War showing in Morgantown
by daniil Kharms
Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005 at 7:09 AM
Big Noise Films Fourth World War to Screen in Morgantown
Thursday March 3, 2005
Film: The Fourth World War
2 shows: 7 & 9 PM
$3. admission
Rosewood Theater and Cafe,
218 Walnut St., Morgantown, West Virginia
Presented by the Emiliano Zapata Film Club
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'The Fourth World War' is a stunning, controversial, partisan and very
passionate movie about the global struggles for social and economic
justice; from Argentina to Quebec to Mexico to Italy; from Palestine to
South Africa to South Korea. The filmmakers are very open about their
being a part of these movements. It is also about the endless war
promised by the most powerful governments in the world today. This
movie exposes subjects that aren't covered well, or at all, in
mainstream media and entertainment. This film will not be showing at
your local movie house in Morgantown.
The Emiliano Zapata Film Club was formerly called the Radical Film
Night club. We have been hosting movies since around '98-'99. We've
shown movies at 123 Pleasant St., the Morgantown Public Library, and
in private home parties. Most films we choose are documentaries with
a radical or progressive viewpoint. We've shown movies like 'Land and
Freedom,' 'Incident At Oglala,' 'Zapatista Women', etc. We've shown
news shorts from the many Independent Media Centers around
the planet. People from the Club will be on hand on March 3rd and
people are welcome to discuss their impressions and feelings about
the movie after the film showing.
Rosewood Theater website:
http://www.rosewoodtheatre.com/
[More info. on 4WW below from Big Noise Films' website.]
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http://www.bignoisefilms.com/home.htm
Big Noise Tactical is a not-for-profit, all-volunteer collective of
media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating beautiful,
passionate, revolutionary images.
We are not filmmakers producing and distributing our work. We are
rebels, crystallizating radical community and weaving a network of skin
and images, of dreams and bone, of solidarity and connection against
the isolation, alienation and cynicism of capitalist decomposition.
We are tactical because our media is a part of movements, imbedded
in a history of struggle. Tactical because we are provisional, plural,
polyvocal. Tactical because it would be the worst kind of arrogance to
believe that our media had some ahistorical power to change the world
- its only life is inside of movements - and they will hang our images on
the walls of their banks if our movements do not tear their banks down.
Contact us on the ground at:
Big Noise Tactical Media
P.O. Box 72
New York, NY 10013
noise@bignoisetactical.org
[...]
In 2004, against a war that shatters and divides, join a global web of
images and dreams, of blood and bone, of men and women who will
stop this war.
Big Noise Films invites you to join the worldwide network of
screenings/organizing events around The Fourth World War - a
powerful, passionate new film that weaves together the stories of
movements and communities on the ground in Chiapas, Argentina,
South Africa, Palestine, South Korea, Iraq, New York, Quebec City and
Genova.
After 7 years as part of a growing underground distribution network, it is
time to take the struggle downtown and take our films out of the
warehouses and into the theaters. Activists and movements around the
world are planning theatrical runs, parties and organizing events
around the Fourth World War beginning in February.
Help bring the film to your community:
Films like this will never be carried on the shelves of Blockbuster,
images like these will never be seen on FOX or CNN, stories like these
will never be told in SONY multiplexes. We do not have a media
machine behind us, but we have something much more powerful - we
have a movement and that movement is you.
Check our screening guidelines to help bring the film home to your
community.
[...]
Audience Award - San Francisco Indiefest
Jurors' Gold Prize - Big Muddy Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary - Doc Side
1st Place for Documentaries - CineFestival
1st Place for Documentaries- NEXTFRAME
Best of Festival - Latin American Studies Association Festival
Special Merit Award - Super 8 and Digital Film Festival
Overall Production Excellence - Women in Film
Best of Festival - Smithsonian Latino Film Series
Best Latino Documentary- Deep Ellum Film Festival
Best Documentary - Dahlonega Film Festival
Official Selection:
Rotterdam International
IDFA - Amsterdam
London Latino
MIT Digital Media Festival
D.FILM
CineAccion
BERLINBETA
Lost Film Festival
Dallas Video Fest
Bogota Indie Media Symposium
Chicago Latino
New York Latino
Flaherty Film Festival
Santa Barbara International
Human Rights Watch Film Fest
Cork International
Korean Labor Film Festival
Margaret Mead Film Festival
Gijon Festival of World Cinema
New York Underground
Amnesty International Film Fest
Maine International
Vermont International
DocLands, Dublin
L'Alternativa, Barcelona
Athens International
Austin Film Fest
VISTAS
Grass Roots Media Fest
Black Panther Film Fest
Festival of Resistence
Mottovun Film Fest
One World Film Festival
Black Maria
Seattle Underground
Hazel Wolfe
OVNI, Barcelona
Heartlannd Feminist Film Festival
16th World Festival of Students and Youth
by Karl Belain
Wednesday, Mar. 02, 2005 at 9:33 AM
solidarity@handsoffvenezuela.org
Hands Off Venezuela Campaign- http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org
The 16th World Festival of Youth and Students - An Historic Event in the
Making
By Karl Belin
This August, Caracas, Venezuela will be home to the 16th World Festival of
Youth and Students, a festival of politics, art, and culture. The meeting
will be held from the 7th to the 15th and will be a convergence of young
students and workers from across the globe, united behind the slogan "For
peace and solidarity, we struggle against war and imperialism!" This is a
chance for people to see the revolutionary process first hand, on the
grass-roots levels with the revolutionaries of the Venezuelan Bolivarian
Republic.
It is a great event to look forward to, but the work towards building the
festival begins here at home.It is the job of progressive youth in America
to take the initiative into their own hands and form their delegation. We
have already elected a national steering committee and formed a nation-wide
network of Local Organizing Committees (LOCs). We must now expand this
network and make it a broad basis on which to form our national delegation.
There are steps that we must take to ensure a successful festival and a
successful alliance with young workers and students around the world. We
must continue to build broad and democratic LOCs, keep up public promotion
of the WFYS, and look at the festival itself not as the final event, but as
the spring board to the promotion of revolution across Latin America and the
world.
The process of creating a broad, democratic LOC is easy. In many cases, it
is the job with the most instant gratification. For example, the LOC in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania began with four people. They quickly began
promoting the festival among friends and their own political circles and the
LOC began to expand. As the committee began to amass more and more
individuals, the membership chose to take the route of getting support from
groups on the local campuses. They began making regular appearances at the
many political events taking place in the city sponsored by these groups,
and flyering among the rank and file. They also got involved with helping
others build delegation committees, by making road trips to various campuses
around the state and working with students there directly to help build an
LOC.
Now, there are two consolidated committees in Western and Central
Pennsylvania because of this work, and many more fledgling delegations in
the making. This is a prime example of how to build an LOC and to promote
the festival.
Local organizing committees and promotion of the festival are great things
to get involved with, yes, but what happens after the festival in September?
What about a year from now? What will we do with the bonds we forge at the
WFYS, what will we do to really fight against war and imperialism when we
get back home? We must actively get involved with defending the revolution
in Venezuela, Latin America, and the world! The Hands Off Venezuela campaign
has been analyzing the revolution for years now and is working on the
ground with the participants.
This festival is only the beginning. It is an
opportunity to open the door to a broader democratic forum for the
revolutionary youth and workers of the world. Let's take the slogan of the
WFYS one step further. Let our rallying cry be "In solidarity with the
Venezuelan and world revolutions, we struggle against war and imperialism!"
This is the time for building. This is the time of constructing the basis
for our World Revolution, building our forces, and opening channels of
communications. This August, the first brick is laid. It will take active
participation and careful attention to detail to build for the festival and
beyond. See you all in Caracas!
For more information on the WFSY and the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign, visit
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org
Huh?
by Gus
Sunday, Mar. 06, 2005 at 4:35 AM
What does this post about the meeting in Venezuela have to do with our film showing in Morgantown, may I ask? (Hands Off Venezuela Campaign- http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org )
Certainly, we oppose U$ intrusion, economic or military, into Venezuela. This doesn’t mean we support Chavez or any other authoritarian bureaucracy. Your event in Caracas sounds like a Pro-Chavez, Castroist sort of front. We in the E.Z. Film Club are anarchists or libertarian socialists.
The 4WW event was a success, by the way. About 50 showed up for each show = 100. Not bad for a small city.
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