Deep Dish Television announces special Bay Area screenings of an installment of their recently completed series "Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War": The Real Face of Occupation, featuring rarely seen footage of the war in Iraq shot in Iraq from March 2003 to April 2004 by videographers David Martinez and Urban Hamid. From civilian testimony of a US military attack on a clearly marked ambulance to the destruction of sewage systems, the daily struggle of Iraqis to meet their basic human needs is the focus of this installment of the series. It is one of thirteen programs in the Shocking and Awful series that comprises the work of over 100 independent video activists from around the world.

Also screening at the benefit: Mandate?, a half-hour documentary by Indymedia Video and the Glass Bead Collective, shows resistance at the January 20th inauguration of George W. Bush. The film shows the issues behind the re-election of Bush and the reaction from protestors to the most expensive inauguration in US history. The screening will conclude with footage from a new film by Deep Dish producers Brandon Jourdan and Brian Drolet, including rare, never-before seen footage from the US military offensive in November and December 2004. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Deep Dish producer and filmmaker Brandon Jourdan.

$5 suggested donation benefits the SF Bay Area IMC. Wednesday, March 30th at 8pm, Artists' Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, and Friday, April 1st at 8pm, AK Press Warehouse, 674 23rd st., Oakland. More info