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DESCRIPTION:Sunday, January 30, 2011\n7 PM (note: NOT 7:30).\nAdmission: $5.00\nMovies 
 on a Big Screen at The Guild\n2828 35th St, Sacramento, 
 CA\n\nScrappers\nWith co-director Ben Kolak in attendance for a 
 Q&A.\nRecently named by Roger Ebert as one of the 10 best documentaries of 
 2010!\n\n"Scrappers" follows two Chicago families who make ends meet using 
 brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks. Shot in vérité style, the film 
 focuses on work: finding metals; raising children; understanding the city. 
 The film questions popular notions of poverty, race relations, and 
 recycling and examines dreams of personal self-sufficiency and urban 
 sustainability. \n\nArriving from Honduras, Oscar found scrapping more 
 enriching than other occupations open to undocumented immigrants. He 
 searches alleys 14 hours a day to support his undocumented wife and 
 American-born son. Yet without a driver’s license or insurance, Oscar’s 
 trucks break down or disappear to the impound lot. Police run-ins leave him 
 conflicted over which might be the lesser of two evils, deportation or 
 remaining trapped in the land of opportunity. \n\nOtis, age 73 and proud 
 father of 12, learned scrapping over 40 years ago. With help from his third 
 wife and her son, he searches out metal from appliances and garages, 
 enabling them to escape a decrepit public housing project. Even in the face 
 of slumlords and brain surgery, Otis’ wisdom and hustle light the way 
 towards stability. But when the financial collapse causes metal prices to 
 plummet, he faces near insurmountable obstacles to starting over. 
 \n\nSeasoned metal trader Mike explains the work of informal scrap laborers 
 in a global context.\n\n"Scrappers" tackles the geography of a 
 still-segregated city, the hidden lives of undocumented immigrants, and the 
 complex economics of recycling through an examination of daily life. 
 \n\n"We’ve heard a lot about how the economic collapse hit the middle 
 class, but this film is an urgent reminder that it has been far worse for 
 those who were barely holding on to begin with. The film also raises by 
 implication topics like our mind-bogglingly wasteful society, Chicago’s 
 lame approach to recycling and the mixed signals given to people on the 
 margins by the cops." - TimeOut Chicago\n\n"Goes beyond the novelty of the 
 profession to tackle tough questions of race, work, public and private 
 housing, and immigration. The film is a moving portrait of the 
 precariousness of life and work at the bottom of the American economy in 
 one of the country’s wealthiest cities" - In These Times 
 Magazine\n\n"This superior verite doc opens a wide window onto the world of 
 scrap-metal scavengers ... and directors Ben Kolak, Brian Ashby, and 
 Courtney Prokopas make the most of their subjects’ humble heroism while 
 resisting the temptation to sentimentalize them. Along the way they 
 painlessly impart a whole lot of insight into the travails of undocumented 
 immigrants, the persistence of segregation, and the workings of the 
 globalized economy." - Chicago Reader\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/17/18669445.php
SUMMARY:Screening: Scrappers w/co-director Q&A - Named 1 of 10 Best Docs of 2010 by Roger Ebert
LOCATION:Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild. 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA 95817
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/17/18669445.php
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