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DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival opens on Thursday, May 20, at 
 the Victoria Theatre on 16th Street in San Francisco with a film on how 
 small, local/regional beer companies must fight for their daily survival 
 against the three corporate behemoths that together control 90% of the 
 market.\n\n	It's just the first of three drink-related films in a line-up 
 that includes movies about the bottled water industry (which may soon rival 
 the beer industry in sales and influence), and the grand-daddy of all 
 beverage companies, and an international symbol of American culture and 
 commerce: the Coca-Cola Corporation.\n\n	Also in the mix is a film about 
 the pharmaceutical industry's effort to sell women drugs and medical 
 treatments that don't work for a disease that doesn't exist (so-called 
 "female sexual dysfunction"), a look at the birth and growth of the Bay 
 Area organic/sustainable food movement as part of the Berkeley 
 counter-cultural politics of 1960s, and a closing night examination of 
 past, current, and future U.S. energy policy as told with distinct drawl by 
 the Texas oilmen who feed the nation's petroleum habit.\n\n	The Festival 
 kicks off on Thursday at 7:00pm with BEER WARS, a behind-the-scenes look at 
 the daily battles and all-out wars that determine what kind of beer 
 Americans get to drink. as a growing number of small, independent, and 
 regional "micro-brewers" challenge the corporate behemoths that produce 
 millions of gallons of watered down, flavorless, industrial swill. The 
 screening will be followed by a 9:00 craft brew reception at the SF Media 
 Archive .\n\n	At 9:00pm, the opening night film TAPPED is a disturbing look 
 at the bottled water industry, which goes the beer giants one better by 
 pumping millions of gallons of public water — even during a drought — 
 from taxpayer funded municipal systems, and then selling it back to the 
 same people for six times the price.\n\n	The Festival opens its second day 
 on Friday, May 21 at 7:15pm with ORGASM, INC, an expose on how the 
 pharmaceutical industry continues to define our notions of what "healthy" 
 is, in its efforts to replicate the success (and profits) of Viagra by 
 developing a similar drug for women. But first it must convince them that 
 the norms of female sexuality actually constitute an illness that can be 
 fixed by taking a drug.\n\n	At 9:15pm, the centerpiece film this year is 
 THE COCA-COLA CASE, a taut legal thriller about a court battle by two 
 crusading labor lawyers trying to bring the world's largest beverage 
 company to account for its role in the murders of union organizers in 
 violence-torn Colombia. The film will be followed by a Q&A featuring Ray 
 Rogers of the Stop Killer Coke! campaign, and other experts on the 
 situation in Colombia.\n\n	The final day of the Festival begins on Saturday 
 at 7:30pm with FOOD FIGHT, a look at birth and development of the 
 local/organic/sustainable food movement right here in the Bay Area, as an 
 outgrowth of the political upheaval of the 1960s. The film will be followed 
 by a Q&A with local chef and San Francisco Chronicle food writer Eric 
 Gower. \n\n	The Festival concludes at 9:30pm with HOUSTON, WE HAVE A 
 PROBLEM, which looks at the current state of our energy addiction through 
 the eyes (and mouths) of the Texas oilmen who ride the boom and bust cycle 
 like a bucking bronco. Like dealers of any drug, they don't see it as their 
 job to help us kick our oil habit — but they can also see the day coming 
 when we won't need their product any more.\n\n	For more information -- 
 including trailers for each of the films, the full Festival schedule, and 
 links to buy tickets online -- visit the CounterCorp website: 
 www.countercorp.org/film-festival.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/18/18648195.php
SUMMARY:"Beer Wars" (5th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival)
LOCATION:Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/18/18648195.php
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