| In celebrating their recent return to campus, running counterpart to the Epcor screenings, Movies that Matter has scheduled a mini-festival March 14 to the 16 at the University of Calgary.
The festival kicks off with a double-bill about issues of terrorism specific to Peru. State of Fear tells the story of what can happen to a society when its country engages in war on terror through a combination of individual experiences, history and archival footage. The Fall of Fujimori charts the same story, but from a different angle. Director Ellen Perry shows personal interviews with now exiled leader Alberto Fujimori, as well as rarely seen video recordings from his regime.
The next evening features two films connected to music and media. Kurt Cobain About a Son is based on several hours of audio interviews between Kurt Cobain and journalist Michael Azerrad. From childhood to his discovery of music, from obscurity to fame, Cobain’s words are set against Washington visuals to create an incredible portrait. Pirate Radio USA, recently dubbed the Supersize Me of the communications world, is essentially a tour of the world of illegal broadcasting in the United States, and shows the price of America’s other favourite F-word – freedom.
The festival closes with a screening and panel discussion. The Empire in Africa is a documentary that looks at the retaliation the world took on Sierra Leone after the rebels tried to regain the country’s wealth from foreign corporations and stop the abuse of their own country’s population.
Schedule for the festival is as follows:
Wednesday, March 14
State of Fear, 6 p.m. (ST 148)
The Fall of Fujimori, 8 p.m. (ST 148)
Thursday, March 15
Kurt Cobain About a Son, 6 p.m. (MFH 162)
Pirate Radio USA, 8 p.m. (MFH 162)
Friday, March 16
The Empire in Africa, 6 p.m. (MFH 162)
Admission is by donation. |
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