From: MadCat Women's Film Festival (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 14:47:14 PDT
MadCat continues... This week is jam packed! You should not miss Zoe Beloff
and her 3D films, a Premiere of Rebecca Baron's new tape, How Little We Know
of our Neighbours and silent films set to live music. Check out our program
at www.madcatfilmfestival.org. Please note we have a special screening of
MAQUILAPOLIS TONIGHT, September 21 at the Grand Lake Theater. Be there.
10th Annual MadCat Women¹s International Film Festival Presents
MAQUILAPOLIS (City of Factories) by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
Thurs € Sept 21 € Grand Lake € 7:30 pm
Also screening Sept 24 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 7:30pm
Advance tickets available by calling (415) 978-2700
Maquilapolis (City of Factories) 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 Tijuana¹s 800 maquiladoras,
multinational factories that thrive off Mexico¹s 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
workers¹ 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.
The 10th Annual MadCat Women¹s 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
HIGHLIGHTS of the 10th Annual MadCat Film Festival
Surveillance Times
Fri € Sept 22 € ATA € 7:30 pm
Video surveillance, surreptitiously recorded phone conversations, renegade
radio stations. These innovative documentaries reveal the power of modern
surveillance technologies and the incumbent whittling away of civil
liberties and upending of notions of privacy.
Charming Augustine: A 3D Film
Sat € Sept 23 € Yerba Buena € 7:30 pm
A story of love, madness and the loss of control in glorious 3D. Experience
what cinema might have been like had it been invented in the 1880s.
Filmmaker Zoe Beloff in person.
Maquilapolis
Sun € Sept 24 € Yerba Buena € 7:30 pm
A repeat screening with local filmmakers Funari and De La Torre in person.
Wishing Worlds
Tues € Sept 26 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Stories from Pakistan, The Netherlands, Germany and France follow lunatics
in search of a homeland, young lovers in a surreal musical, an underwater
struggle, and much more.
Charming Augustine: A 3D Film
Tues € Sept 26 € PFA € 7:30 pm
Repeat screening. Filmmaker in person.
CLOSING NIGHT-A Quiet Storm: Live Music Set to Silent Films
Wed € Sept 27 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Australian filmmaker Sally Golding and sound artist Joel Stern present an
improvisational three-projector performance. 16mm films by Kerry Laitala,
Courtney Hoskins and Sheri Wills set to live music by Tartufi and The
Secrets of Family Happiness.
The 10th Annual MadCat Women¹s 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
Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland
Thurs, Sept 21, 7:30 pm Tix: $10. Mastercard and visa accepted only in
advance of the screening. Cash or Debit at the door.
(510) 452-3556, www.grandlaketheater.com
El Rio
3158 Mission St. @ Precita in San Francisco
Tues and Weds, Sept 26 & 27
Movies 8:30 pm; FREE BBQ at 6:30 pm
Rain or Shine
Tix: $720. Cash Only. 21 and over.
(415) 282-3325, www.elriosf.com
Artists¹ Television Access (ATA)
992 Valencia St. @ 21st in San Francisco
Fri, Sept 22. Movies 7:30 pm
Tix: $720. 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
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 Women¹s 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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