Sunday 4th November 2012 brings us…
Reel News show reel – Remember Afghanistan and other films
(note change of film from previously announced*)
Doors 7pm . Feature 7.30pm . 10pm Close
OARC, East Oxford Community Centre, Cowley Rd, OX4 1DD
£5/£3 recommended donation (or whatever you can afford)
Replacing Even the Rain*, we’re pleased to be showing the latest reel of citizen journalism news from around the world from Reel News. The films we’ll be showing are:
15 Million Afghans – The harsh economic reality of everyday life in Kabul, and the people’s growing anger at its government and their western sponsors.
When NATO came to town – Soldiers renounce the war on terror and throw their medals back at the NATO summit protests in Chicago.
United by Love – Divided by Teresa May -Home Office protest over new restrictions on family members of British citizens entering the country.
Making Ends Meet– Barcelona: new models of organising and protesting against the politics of austerity
Asturian Miners strike – Faced with thousands of job losses, the miners in Spain go on strike using the most militant tactics seen so far in the struggle against austerity.
Miners march to Madrid – The miners march for 18 days from Asturias, to be greeted by thousands of supporters in Madrid.
Doors open at 7PM and as usual we’ll be showing a selection of citizen journalist film shorts hopefully reporting from the streets about the financial crisis in Europe until 7.30pm.
Main Reel News showing starts at 7.30PM sharp after which we shall table a discussion on the various themes raised in the films.
Evening finishes at 10PM latest, at which juncture we may ajourn to a local ale house for continued discussion and refreshment.
Do help us to promote the monthly screenings, let people know about this web site and more imporantly tell them to come along! Download the poster and stick it in your window.
* we were originally planning to show Even the Rain. We were contacted by the distributors, Dogwoof, who pointed out to us that a screening licence for the film would be £100. As a small non-profit project we are unable to cover the costs as we only take donations on the night to go towards the running of the OARC community space. Therefore we had to decline and show something else, meaning that Even the Rain doesn’t get seen. You can buy it for the normal channels of course.
