[Peace-discuss] Dangerous Docs 3 at the Art - Oct 25-31

[Austin McCann]

Hi everyone,

Wanted to give you a heads-up about Dangerous Docs 3, a community-sponsored
film festival with panels, starting on October 25 at the Art Theater Co-op.
Of particular interest to this group as a whole will be the film INEQUALITY
FOR ALL, which will feature a panel afterwards with labor organizers Pat
Simpson & Aaron Ammons, economist Michael Brun, and facilitated by Danielle
Chynoweth.

*Please forward and help support the Art's efforts in bringing challenging,
important films to the CU area. Your support is appreciated!*

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*DANGEROUS DOCS 3 brings new films and community groups together *

October 25-31, 2013
At the Art Theater Co-op

126 W. Church St.

Downtown Champaign

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DANGEROUS DOCS 3
October 25 - 31, 2013

The Dangerous Docs series shines a spotlight on contemporary nonfiction
cinema, with an eye towards films that are challenging, entertaining,
well-made, and unique. The Art Theater Co-op partners with community
organizations to host panels after each film, panels which will establish
connections between the on-screen material and work being done in our
community.

Ticket prices: $9/normal, $7/student, $/6 senior. $30 pass to all films
available.

Special Event shows with post-show panels:
Fri, Oct 25 - FIRE IN THE BLOOD
Sat, Oct 26 - INEQUALITY FOR ALL
Sun, Oct 27 - AFTER TILLER
Mon, Oct 28 - FREE THE MIND
Tues, Oct 29 - CALL ME KUCHU
Weds, Oct 30 - THE FRUIT HUNTERS

*Each film will get an encore showing at another slot during the week.*

AFTER TILLER (Presented by Women's Resources Center and NARAL Choice Action
Team) - After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009,
there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide
third-trimester abortions for women. AFTER TILLER moves between the rapidly
unfolding stories of these doctors, all of whom were close colleagues of
Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of
his death.

INEQUALITY FOR ALL - A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary
Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening
economic gap.

THE FRUIT HUNTERS (Presented by Common Ground Food Co-operative ) - THE
FRUIT HUNTERS travels across culture, history and geography to show how
intertwined we are with the fruits we eat. Our guides are devoted fruit
fanatics. Movie star Bill Pullman’s obsession leads him on a crusade to
create a community orchard in the Hollywood Hills. Adventurers Noris
Ledesma and Richard Campbell scour the jungle for rare mangos, hoping to
intervene before the plants are steamrolled by industrialization.
Pioneering scientist Juan Aguilar races to breed bananas resistant to a
deadly fungus that threatens the worldwide crop. And fruit detectives
including Isabella Dalla Ragione investigate Renaissance-era paintings for
clues, hoping to rediscover lost fruits.

FIRE IN THE BLOOD (Presented by Champaign County Health Care Consumers) -
An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", FIRE IN THE BLOOD
tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments
blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south
in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths -
and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

CALL ME KUCHU (Presented by The UP Center of Champaign County) - In Uganda,
a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato
- Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the
clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in
their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the
brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves
around the world.

FREE THE MIND - In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's
leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply
the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the
study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan
meditation practice. The results of Davidson's studies at the Center for
Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are
portrayed in Free the Mind as they are applied to treating PTSD in
returning Iraqi vets and children with ADHD.
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