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TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007 http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm Online Media Partner: http://www.goanet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Moving Images and International Centre Goa are organizing the TRI Continental Film Festival in Dona Paula, Goa from Friday September 28 to Tuesday October 2, 2007 Initiated in Argentina in 2002, South Africa in 2003 and India in 2004, the TRI Continental Film Festival has since become an annual platform for narrative, documentary, feature and short-length films from the three continents that form part of the global South. Throughout the year, the Festival's Travelling Screen also tours various cities across India, taking these award-winning and critically-acclaimed films to universities, cultural institutions and citizens' groups, and sparking discussions, diatribes and debates around human rights and social justice. Here are the movies that will be screened on Day 5. The Take (Canada, 2004, Dir. Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein, 87 min) Tuesday, 2 October, 2007 - 10:30 am In the wake of Argentina's spectacular economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy. Thirst (USA, 2004, Dir. Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow, 62 min) Tuesday, 2 October, 2007 - 12:15 pm WIDTH=200 align='left' hspace='8' BORDER=0 alt='Thirst'>Is water part of a shared commons, a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought and sold in the global marketplace? Filmed in Bolivia, India and the USA, Thirst depicts communities struggling with these questions as water becomes the world's most valuable resource. This groundbreaking new film exposes how a global corporate drive to commodify the world's water inspires new movements against globalisation. Venezuela Rising (Venezuela Crece) (USA & Venezuela, 2006, Dir. Jennifer Wager, 65 min) Tuesday, 2 October, 2007 - 3:00 pm Venezuela Rising follows grandmother and community organizer Gladys Bolivar and her compatriots over four days before, during and after a huge public referendum where it will be decided whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will continue in office or step down. The entire nation has been mobilized - will it be SI - yes, he will be recalled; or NO - he will remain in office. Hugo Chavez has been an extremely popular president to most Venezuelans, but his revolutionary politics of the nationalization of the country's oil resources has drawn the ire of some in the Latin American country. Most in Venezuela feel that no less than the entire future of their country is at stake. Issues of democracy and politics are addressed - what constitutes a free and fair election - and is that enough to ensure citizen participation. How are elections the ultimate measure of a thriving democracy? Venezuela Rising gets behind the headlines and into the neighborhoods of Caracas to find out just how Venezuelan participatory democracy works on the ground. John & Jane (India, 2005, Dir. Ashim Ahluwalia, 83 min) Tuesday, 2 October, 2007 - 6:00 pm A blend of observational documentary and tropical science-fiction, John & Jane follows the stories of six 'call agents' who answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call centre. After a heady mix of American 'culture training' and 14-hour night shifts, the job soon starts to take its toll. Counter pointing the fluorescent interiors of late night offices and hyper-malls with the uneasy currents swirling around the characters, John & Jane discovers a young generation of urban Indians that are beginning to live between the real and the virtual. However, this futuristic world of American aliases and simulated reality is not science fiction. These are the times in which we live. John & Jane raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity and what it means to be 'Indian' in a 21st century globalised world. Registration information at: http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm Article and Photos at: http://www.goanet.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=948 Goanet A&E - http://www.goanet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007 http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------