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What's *LEFT* for Cinequest?
The Raging Grannies went to the Cinequest Film Festival Opening and previewed some of what's coming up between now and March 8. Now that the premiere film is over ("Wake" received mixed reviews) Grannies are here to advise you on what's LEFT for Cinequest.
Top photo: Two Grannies debate the best films for left-wing viewers.
Top photo: Two Grannies debate the best films for left-wing viewers.
Recommended by the Raging Granny Film Review Team:
Mom's will "get" this one: Billed as a "breakthrough in Iranian cinema", *As Simple as That* portrays a Tehran mother's suffering with badgering children and oblivious husband. Raging Grannies say, we can relate!
A story worthy of indybay's "police state" page: *Witch Hunt* is narrated and produced by Sean Penn. In the early 1980's in Bakersfield, California, trial prosecution abuse was rampant. An overzealous prosecutor claimed anyone defending accused child molestors was also a child molester. Lives were ruined, and not just those of the unjustly imprisoned, but of the children who much later came forward to say their testimony had been coerced.
Musicians for social justice!: *Dia de Luz* (Day of Light) give us art and action as creative folks in a poverty stricken district of Nicaragua fight the good fight! (Spanish/English)
Grannies wish we could dance this good: *Gotta Dance* is the true story of little old ladies trying out for real gigs as hip hop artists. You go, girls!
More for indybay's police state page: *Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison*
Racial Justice: *The Least Amongst You*. Forced to live among white folks as penance for a crime he did not commit, the protagonist reaches his own personal outer limits. This serious drama takes us back to the strange days of 1965 Los Angeles.
Anti-War (Good): *Living in Emergency* shows volunteer doctors, some from the SF Bay Area, as they help victims of the war-torn countries of Liberia and Congo.
Anti-War (Better): *The Response* a short drama based on actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals.
Anti-War (Best): Duh! It's the long-awaited *Raging Grannies--the Action League* by documentary maker extraordinaire Pam Walton and those un-shy self-promoters for their causes, the SF Bay Area Raging Grannies. With cameo appearances by some of the San Jose Raging Grannies, and covering NO on Prop 8 rallies, military recruiting center action, environmental, immigrant rights issues and more....all things for lefites to love!
CLOSING NIGHT March 8. *The Nature of Experience*
Director Roger Nygard roamed the globe to produce the documentary. We look forward to hearing a scientific view of religion from Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion") and string theory co-discoverer Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind. Adding to the mix are the founder of "Ultimate Christian Wrestling" (isn't that an oxymoron?) and Indian holy man Sri Sri Ravi Shankar whose Art of Living meditation classes are enormously popular in the SF Bay Area.
Mom's will "get" this one: Billed as a "breakthrough in Iranian cinema", *As Simple as That* portrays a Tehran mother's suffering with badgering children and oblivious husband. Raging Grannies say, we can relate!
A story worthy of indybay's "police state" page: *Witch Hunt* is narrated and produced by Sean Penn. In the early 1980's in Bakersfield, California, trial prosecution abuse was rampant. An overzealous prosecutor claimed anyone defending accused child molestors was also a child molester. Lives were ruined, and not just those of the unjustly imprisoned, but of the children who much later came forward to say their testimony had been coerced.
Musicians for social justice!: *Dia de Luz* (Day of Light) give us art and action as creative folks in a poverty stricken district of Nicaragua fight the good fight! (Spanish/English)
Grannies wish we could dance this good: *Gotta Dance* is the true story of little old ladies trying out for real gigs as hip hop artists. You go, girls!
More for indybay's police state page: *Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison*
Racial Justice: *The Least Amongst You*. Forced to live among white folks as penance for a crime he did not commit, the protagonist reaches his own personal outer limits. This serious drama takes us back to the strange days of 1965 Los Angeles.
Anti-War (Good): *Living in Emergency* shows volunteer doctors, some from the SF Bay Area, as they help victims of the war-torn countries of Liberia and Congo.
Anti-War (Better): *The Response* a short drama based on actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals.
Anti-War (Best): Duh! It's the long-awaited *Raging Grannies--the Action League* by documentary maker extraordinaire Pam Walton and those un-shy self-promoters for their causes, the SF Bay Area Raging Grannies. With cameo appearances by some of the San Jose Raging Grannies, and covering NO on Prop 8 rallies, military recruiting center action, environmental, immigrant rights issues and more....all things for lefites to love!
CLOSING NIGHT March 8. *The Nature of Experience*
Director Roger Nygard roamed the globe to produce the documentary. We look forward to hearing a scientific view of religion from Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion") and string theory co-discoverer Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind. Adding to the mix are the founder of "Ultimate Christian Wrestling" (isn't that an oxymoron?) and Indian holy man Sri Sri Ravi Shankar whose Art of Living meditation classes are enormously popular in the SF Bay Area.
For more information:
http://www.cinequest.org
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