A Place Called Cinema PIRG

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:37:00 -0400
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>From: dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca (Dave Caulfield)
>Subject: A Place Called Cinema PIRG
>
>Hello and a happy thanksgiving to everyone.
>
>Apologies for the lateness of this send out, but there seems to have been a
>network snafu at the Internet wing of Sympatico. I've been unable to log on
>to send this message out for some time but, opting for the
>Better-Late-Than-Never stance, I'm sending her out anyways.
>
>This week's film, which airs Oct.10 in the McMechan Room at 8 pm, is A
>PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS. What's more, I'm happy to announce that the newest
>working group of  NSPIRG (the Dal student-group that funds and allows
>cinema PIRG to exist), Students Taking Action in Chiapas aka STAC will be
>there to talk about Chiapas. Chris Arsenault, for example, was in Chiapas
>this summer building a school. He'll introduce the film and speak
>afterwards.
>
>A little about the film...
>On January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement came
>into force, the indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army took over
>five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. Three years later, the
>Zapatistas and their charismatic leaders, guerrilla poet Subcomandante
>Marcos, are trapped in the Locandon jungle. Surrounded by 30,000 Mexican
>troops, they struggle to maintain a nervous ceasefire.
>
>Despite on-going peace talks, hundreds have been killed. Director Nettie
>Wild travels throughout the jungle canyons of Chiapas to capture the
>elusive and fragile life of a revolution threatened by right-wing
>paramilitary death squads. On camera, the death squads accuse the
>Zapatistas of violence. Off camera, they threaten to kill the film crew.
>
>A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS provides chilling insight into President Zedillo's
>"modern" Mexico. Through eight months of filming, Nettie Wild takes the
>audience with her on a personal journey through fear, hope and illusion. A
>PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS captures the beauty and drama of a story that is as
>surreal as it is powerful.
>
>Admission as always is free, though a donation jar is set up awaiting
>pocket change. The pocket change is used to buy more films for cinema
>PIRGatory, films like, say, for example, A Place Called Chiapas.
>
>I hope to see you all there and spread the word.
>Dave.
>

nspirg
nova scotia public interest research group
6136 university ave
halifax, ns
b3h 4j2
902-494-6662
nspirg@is2.dal.ca
executive director : linda pannozzo


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