From: alvamel (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2006 - 19:12:28 PDT
MadCat continues with the best films from around the world. Next week is jam packed. You should not miss our 3D and Viewmasters series, animation from around the world as well as upcoming live music shows. Check out our program for details. Please note we have a special screening of MAQUILAPOLIS on September 21 at the Grand Lake Theater. This event is a fundraiser for Global Exchange and Wellstone Democratic Club. Be there.
10th Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Presents
MAQUILAPOLIS by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
Thurs, Sept 21 Grand Lake 7:30 pm
Advance tickets available by calling (415) 255-7296
Also screening Sept 24 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 7:30pm
Advance tickets available by calling (415) 978-2700
Maquilapolis, Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre
US/Mexico & Northern California Premiere - Filmmakers and Film Subjects in Person
This intimate documentary shares the lives of some members a tightly knit community that sits in the shadow of one of Tijuana’s 800 maquiladoras, multinational factories that thrive off Mexico’s cheap labor force. Carmen, a single mother and one of the more than one million Mexicans employed at the maquiladoras, works making television components six nights a week for six dollars a day. She comes home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. At 29, she already suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. However, Carmen is far from a victim—she is a dynamic young woman, busy making a life for herself and her children.
Carmen and her friends, some of whom become promotoras (community-based activists), reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to fight for workers’ rights. They take a major television manufacturer to task for violating labor rights and pressure the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing factory. The women, armed with the video cameras Funari and De La Torre provide, also document their lives, their city and their hopes for the future. As they work for change, the world changes too: a global economic crisis and the availability of cheaper labor in China begin to pull the factories away from Tijuana, leaving an entire community with an uncertain future.
Preceded by
South of Ten Liza Johnson
Produced by Anne Etheridge
2006 - 10 min - Color - 35mm - US - West Coast Premiere
Using the decimated landscape of the Mississippi Gulf Coast as its backdrop, South of Ten restages the extraordinary routines of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone amidst the rubble. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten vignettes, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out scenes of their everyday lives and the relentlessness of labor now required in their extreme terrain.
The 10th Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
Screening the Best films by women directors from around the world
For the entire program www.madcatfilmfesival.org
Maquilapolis VENUES
Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland
Thurs, Sept 21, 7:30 pm Tix: $10. Cash or Debit at the door.
Advance tickets available by calling (415) 255-7296
Mastercard and visa accepted only in advance of the screening.
(510) 452-3556, www.grandlaketheater.com <http://www.grandlaketheater.com/>
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. @ Third in San Francisco
Sat, Sept 23 € Sun, Sept 24, 7:30 pm Tix: $9. Cash or Credit Cards.
Tix available in advance or at the door.
(415) 978-2700, www.ybca.org
For more information call 415 436-9523 or go to www.madcatfilmfestival.org
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The 10th Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
Screening the Best films by women directors from around the world
When: September 12-27 in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.
ALL VENUES
El Rio
3158 Mission St. @ Precita in San Francisco
Tues and Weds, Sept 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 & 27
Movies 8:30 pm; FREE BBQ at 6:30 pm
Rain or Shine
Tix: $7–20. Cash Only. 21 and over.
(415) 282-3325, www.elriosf.com
Artists’ Television Access (ATA)
992 Valencia St. @ 21st in San Francisco
Fri, Sept 15 & 22. Movies 7:30 pm
Tix: $7–20. Cash Only.
(415) 824-3890, www.atasite.org
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. @ Third in San Francisco
Sun and Mon Sept 23 and 24
Tix: $9. Cash or Credit Cards
(415) 978-2700, www.ybca.org
Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland
Thurs, Sept 21, 7:30 pm Tix: $10. Advance tickets available by calling (415) 255-7296
Mastercard and visa accepted only in advance of the screening. Cash or Debit at the door.
(510) 452-3556, www.grandlaketheater.com
Pacific Film Archive (PFA)
2575 Bancroft Way in Berkeley
Sept 26, 7:30pm
Tix: $8. Cash or Credit Cards
(510) 642-5249, http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street Unit C
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
Ph. 415 436-9523
Fax. 415 934-0642
E. email suppressed
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.