[Nettime-nl] vanavond de films Bullshit en Drowned Out

[Suzanne Hogendoorn <suzanne@vrijmediacollectief.org>]

Vanavond draaien we twee inspirerende en bijzondere documentaires in de 
Overtoom 301 te Amsterdam. Bullshit en Drowned Out spelen zich beide 
voornamelijk af in India, waar individuen en gemeenschappen strijden 
tegen onrecht, multinationals en de corrupte overheid.

De bar bij de filmzaal op de 2e verdieping gaat open om 20.00 en de 
eerste film begint om 20.30. Er is ook de mogelijkheid om vanaf 19.00 
te dineren in eetcafe De Pepper.

De films;

BULLSHIT
73 min.
Directors: PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian
2005

The film is about Vandana Shiva, Indian environmental activist and 
nuclear physicist, who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. 
It?s a film on globalisation and patenting, on genetic engineering, 
bio-piracy, indigenous knowledge.

In this documentary, filmmakers follow Vandana Shiva, an Indian 
environmentalist and nuclear physicist, over a two-year period, from 
her organic farm at the foot of the Himalayas to institutions of power 
all over the world. Vandana Shiva does battle with  Monsanto, a huge 
American biotech company, when they try to patent an ancient Indian 
strain of wheat and together with Dalits she tries to close down a 
Coca-Cola plant in Kerala, in a conflict involving groundwater 
pollution.

The filmmakers describe Monsanto from the inside and arrange what 
proves a shaking meeting between Vandana Shiva and Barun Mitra, liberal 
think-tank, lobbyist and fierce critic of Vandana Shiva ? and the man 
who gave her the 'Bullshit Prize'.

What a woman, what strength, what optimism...! It's so exhilarating to 
see this film.?
Aftonbladet, major Swedish evening paper

Drowned Out - We Can't Wish Them Away
75 minutes
Director: Franny Armstrong
2004

Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, accept a place at a 
resettlement site or stay at home and drown. The people of Jalsindhi in 
central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their 
village will disappear underwater as the giant Narmada Dam fills.
Bestselling author Arundhati Roy joins the fight against the dam and 
asks the difficult questions. Will the water go to poor farmers or to 
rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 million people displaced 
by fifty years of dam building? Why should I care?
DROWNED OUT follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, 
rallies, police brutality and a six-year Supreme Court case. It stays 
with them as the dam fills and the river starts to rise...

"An inspiring record of a quite extraordinary campaign of mass 
resistance, at once angry, compassionate, disturbing and yet 
empowering, it makes for urgent and necessary viewing...Critics Choice" 
Time Out (London)
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