Global Peace Film Festival 2008

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Short Documentaries
An adventure in sea kayaking reveals the magnificent seascape of the Sea of Cortez, and the immense threat to the region that occurs with the worldwide problem of over-fishing. This film emphasizes how people are creating solutions and what each of us can do to support sustainable relations with the oceans.
Short Narratives
The Lake Mack tornadoes slaughtered thirteen residents in one night. This documentary, filmed two weeks later, shows the destruction, the need for stronger mobile home building codes, and subsidies for residents. Perhaps most importantly, this film documents a community which, despite the killer twisters, remained stronger than its walls.
Short Documentaries
"Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the new South Africa" chronicles the lives of four young people in Nyanga township, South Africa, as they work toward their crucial Matric exams, which one student calls, ‘the decider.’ Beginning school in 1994, the same year apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela became president, this film follows the students as they prepare for the exams which they believe will determine their future. While this is the new South Africa, many vestiges of apartheid persist. What hangs in the balance if students pass Matric, and what awaits those who do not? How do they achieve their dreams in a country where so many obstacles remain?
Feature Documentaries
This is the story of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, through the perspectives of twelve Amtrak passengers during a three-day, cross-country train trip. Filmmaker Brecke's photographic images of desolation, death, and human suffering in the burned out villages of Darfur and refugee camps of Chad, along with moving accounts of his experiences, illuminate the full dimensions of the crisis and raise serious questions about the world's willful indifference to it. For the twelve passengers, and thus the film's audience, this cross-country train trip becomes an enlightening and emotional journey through an indifferent American media landscape into the heart of the Darfur tragedy.
Short Documentaries
Four college students from Rollins College, Florida, researched and tracked the products sold in their campus bookstore, discovering that almost every brand carried was a user of sweatshop labor. Taking matters into their own hands, the film is a captivating and refreshing reminder that we are all part of one world.
Feature Documentaries
This explosive new documentary shows how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 -- and now looms as an unbridled threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. This controversial feature length film by Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how easy it is to change election outcomes and undermine election integrity across the U.S. A wakeup call to all Americans, this film inspires greater citizen involvement in fixing a broken electoral system. As we approach the decisive election of 2008, Uncounted will change how you feel about the way votes are counted in America.
Short Documentaries
Join a young engineering student, Callie Blackwood, on her journey to Kenya with Engineers Without Borders as they try to bring clean drinking water to over 1,000 school children.
Short Documentaries
Don't call them 'Gen X.' Don't call them 'Gen Y.' They're the 'Millennials' and two experts in generational theory say they'll be the 'next great generation.' Find out why they're so sure, and meet four Millennials who exemplify American citizens coming of age right now. Can they resolve the political, cultural and social issues that Gen Xers and Boomers leave behind? You can decide for yourself.
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