Festival | Events

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2009

57th annual Columbus International

Film + Video Festival

SCREENINGS and EVENTS

OCTOBER 09

Not Yet Rain

Thursday October 15, 2009

6:30pm – 8:30pm
Studio 35 Cinema & Draft House (here)
3055 Indianola Ave, Columbus, OH

Join us after the film for a reception
with the director, Lisa Russell!

Not Yet Rain, a short film by Lisa Russell,
is a powerful film charting the course
of reproductive freedom in Ethiopia,
told through the voices of women who
have faced the challenge of finding safe
health care. Through their stories, we see
the important role that safe health care
plays in the overall wellbeing of women
and their families.
www.notyetrain.org/

FREE Admission!
This screening is co-sponsored by Population Connection and the Central Ohio Sierra Club.

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Strong Coffee: The Story of Cafe Femenino

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

7:00pm – 8:30pm
Studio 35 Cinema & Draft House (here)
3055 Indianola Ave, Columbus, OH

(OH!film Review)

STRONG COFFEE tells the story of Café Femenino—a revolutionary idea that is helping people in need all over the world. Café Femenino beans are the first coffee beans grown entirely by women farmers.

Remarkably, the Café Femenino project is helping to change long-established attitudes and weaken the grip of machismo in remote farming communities. In response, a cultural shift is taking place. There is more equality between women and men, abuse and violence towards women are decreasing, and the quality of life in these regions is improving.

To better understand this phenomenon, a small group of coffee roasters travel to Northern Peru to meet some of the impoverished women farmers who grow this high quality, certified organic, fair trade coffee. The film follows the roasters as they travel to remote villages to see how coffee beans are grown, picked, processed, and sold. We learn about the Peruvian women’s struggles, their courage and incredible achievements, and meet some of the remarkable people involved in the formation of the Café Femenino project.

STRONG COFFEE also shows how Café Femenino helps women in our own communities. The documentary takes a peek at the billion dollar coffee industry from the perspective of Café Femenino and provides an interesting look at the power of the consumer dollar. STRONG COFFEE: The Story of Café Femenino is an uplifting, motivating, and inspiring film.

This film screening has been co-sponsored by Stauf’s.
Admission is just $5.

We All Fall Down: the American Mortgage Crisis

Tuesday, October 27

7:30pm – 9:00pm
Drexel Theater (here)
2254 E Main St., Columbus, OH 43209-2319

Written and Produced by Kevin Stocklin
Directed by Gary Gasgarth

Filmed over a twelve-month period, from Rochester, NY and Cleveland, to Seattle, Los Angeles and San Diego, WE ALL FALL DOWN also shows how an out-of-control “mortgage machine” has today led to home foreclosures nationwide, featuring interviews with families who have been devastated, as loan defaults and evictions spread from the poor to middle-class sectors of the populace, in turn creating millions of abandoned and disintegrating properties in neighborhoods and cities throughout the U.S. Their emotionally moving stories reveal the all-too-real personal consequences for Americans caught up in this financial spiral.

This screening is co-sponsored by the Free Press.
Admission is free, donations accepted.

NOVEMBER 09

Tuesday, Nov 10:  Scientists Under Attack a German film about genetically modified food and corporate sponsored research (at Germania 11/10 at 8 pm)

Wednesday, Nov 11: My Son, The Pornographer a film about a father’s visit to Prague, where his son directs porn movies (Arena Grand 11/11 at 7 pm)

Thursday, Nov 12: An evening of Award Winning Student Works (CCAD Canzani Center 11/12 at 8 pm)

Friday, Nov 13: Zombies: When the Dead Walk, Friday the 13th means zombies of course (CCAD Canzani Center 11/13 at 8pm). Dress as a zombie and get in free!

Saturday, Nov 14 (Morning): Saturday morning is for kids of all ages with Saturday Morning Cartoons From Around The World (CCAD Canzani Center 11/14 at 10am). Children get in free.

Saturday, Nov 14 (Evening): Animation 4 Adults 2, An Evening of Movies + Mead: Saturday evening is for grown ups with  cartoons for adults that includes hometown’s Jennifer Deafenbaugh’s Strawberry Jam. Stay for the award ceremony after the films and get a chance to meet the filmmakers. (CCAD Canzani Center 11/14 at 7pm)

Sunday, Nov 15:

The Magistical, a feature length animated film for kids (Drexel Theater 11/15 at 1 pm)

One Water, Best of Festival winner, (CCAD Canzani Center 11/15 at 7pm), a stunning documentary that highlights a world where water is exquisitely abundant in some places and dangerously lacking in others, where taps flowing with fresh, clean water are contrasted with toxic, polluted waterways that have turned the blue arteries of our planet murky.

Most screenings are $5, some are free, CCAD screenings are free for CCAD students. For more information go to www.chrisawards.org