[Peace] "Egypt: The Story behind the Revolution" Tue @ 6:30pm; others on Wed & Thu - films on Global Protest Movements

[Stuart Levy]

*(sorry for short notice)*


**

Several films this week, 6:30PM every day through Thursday in GSLIS, as 
part of an

    International Summer Institute on Global Protest Movements
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2594?eventId=15942498


For *tonight*'s film, "Egypt: The Story behind the Revolution,"
we'll get to hear (via skype) from the filmmaker himself.


GSLIS (Grad. School of Library & Information Sciences) is near 5th and 
Daniel.
Enter by the *east-side door*, a few steps up from the parking lot on 
that side,
along Daniel between 5th and 6th St.  The auditorium, room 126, is just 
inside the door.



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*June 19, 2012*

*Egypt: The Story behind the Revolution*

6:30 pm

Room 126, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences

501 E. Daniel St, Champaign

The feature length documentary "Egypt the Story Behind the Revolution," 
directed by Khaled Sayed and produced by M. David Green, introduces 
Egyptian activists to the American audience, and gives them a voice. 
Hear them tell the story of their struggle during the 18 days standoff 
with the Egyptian state police, and how they finally succeed to remove 
Mubarak after 30 years as a sitting president.

The film won the Visionary Award at the Awareness Film Festival in West 
Hollywood. Read more here 
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001_wnsxaBy2hDKxornmOcV_C5OP6cTDuVR2fbOv0xsLwvvNIgN-RJonmrwXyzG1G72BQvb1XjSUMcM3rptdLzUfe7sKUm7OJcs9BxkxTgijw-mptmLx1M2j57VDK83-LgTaB3VPctYbpw9Py7zt7dgaBhkMtd4dcvYbACQY0HD6zBfpm9bJq9qJbpG2rEB_76t-xOnhW-PSwlMzy-gLvSwYw3aVwFqnv4j>.

Discussant: Khaled Sayed, Film Director (via Skype)

*June 20, 2012*

*Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!*

6:30 pm

Room 126, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences

501 E. Daniel St, Champaign

Over sixty million Indians belong to communities imprisoned by the 
British as "criminals by birth." The Chhara of Ahmedabad, in Western 
India, are one of 198 such "Criminal Tribes." Declaring that they are 
"born actors," not "born criminals," a group of Chhara youth have turned 
to street theater in their fight against police brutality, corruption, 
and the stigma of criminality ' a stigma internalized by their own 
grandparents. Please Don't Beat Me, Sir! follows the lives of these 
young actors and their families as they take their struggle to the 
streets, hoping their plays will spark a revolution.

Not only does the film show the power of art as a tool for resistance 
and social change, it also takes us inside Chhara society to reveal a 
community in transition. Made over a five year period, during which the 
filmmakers worked in close collaboration with their subjects, Please 
Don't Beat Me, Sir! exposes the tensions that exist between an older 
generation who did whatever it took to make ends meet and young people 
for whom theater offers a new world of opportunity.

Discussant: Mara Thacker, Visiting Assistant Professor, Library 
Administration

*June 21, 2012*

*Putin's Kiss*

6:30 pm

Room 126, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences

501 E. Daniel St, Champaign

Nashi is an increasingly popular political youth organization in Russia 
with direct ties to the Kremlin. Officially, its goal is to support the 
current political system by creating a future elite among the brightest 
and most loyal Russian teenagers. But the organization also works to 
prevent the political opposition from spreading their views among young 
people.

Masha Drokova, a 16-year-old Nashi commissar and spokesperson, is an 
ambitious middle-class student from the outskirts of Moscow. After 
joining Nashi at the age of 15, she moves to the very top of the 
organization, and is rewarded for her dedication with a university 
scholarship, an apartment, and even a pro-Putin talk show. Everything 
changes when Drokova becomes acquainted with a group of liberal 
journalists, including popular anti-Putin reporter Oleg Kashin. At 
first, she remains devoted to Nashi while pursuing tentative friendships 
with its left-wing critics ' but when Kashin is brutally beaten by 
"unknown perpetrators," she has a genuine change of heart and decides to 
take a stand.

Discussant: Alisha Kirchoff, Associate Director, Russian, East European 
and Eurasian Center

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/For more information about the film screenings:/

/Angela Williams (aswillms at illinois.edu) /

*Co-sponsors**:* Center for African Studies; Center for East Asian and 
Pacific Studies; European Union Center; Center for Global Studies; 
Center for International Business and Education Research; Center for 
Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Russian, East European and 
Eurasian Center; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; and 
funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Program.

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