New College Media Studies Film Festival

New College Media Studies Film Festival

Roxie Theatre (3117 16th Street, SF)

Saturday, January 26 from 12-5pm

Free!



This festival highlights the important documentary work of New College Media Studies students, alumni and faculty.

All of these films capture working people organizing, making a change and not simply suffering the consequences of capitalism,

but creating a new society.



Part I

12:00 Introductions and opening remarks



12:30 Union Town (1979) by Mary Ellen Churchill (30 min.) A documentary about the Rank and file workers in Local 2 organizing

to take their union back from corrupt union bureaucrats and union busting bosses in San Francisco.



1:15 El Salvador: In the Name of Democracy (1984) by Kevin Pina (30 min.) reveals the human face of members and supporters of the Frente Farabundo Marti

para la Liberacion Nationale (FMLN) who the Reagan administration sought to dehumanize at the time.

2:00 1990 Elections: A Vote Under War (1990) by Adrian Carrasco Zanini (30 min). A film about the 1990 Nicaraguan presidential election in which the Sandinistas lost due largely to the effects of the U.S sponsored Contra War.

2:40 Panel discussion How does it work creating change through film & video?

Part II New College Media Studies students' productions:

3:10 Uncommon Knowledge by Eliza Hemenway (26 min.) This compelling and poetic documentary takes place inside the University of California Extension as plans unfold to shut down its historic San Francisco campus in favor of a lucrative private development.

3:40 La Revolucion Comunicativa by Greg Miller (24 min.) A documentary about community radio and TV on the rise in Venezuela.



…and more!