A short local view on the upcoming I CAN SEE YOU

http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/25/i-can-see-you/#more-15417

Happy Halloween Week!!

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Film Festival Fundraiser!

AFRICAID’S

2009 Kisa Film Festival

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Screenings at 4:00 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.

Starz Film Center at the Tivoli

900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, Colorado

Admission is free, and parking in the Tivoli Student Union surface lot will be validated in the box office.

African Items, Books & Jewelry **** Coffee and Dessert

AfricAid will be screening several short films created by a number of Coloradans about their connections to, experiences, and work in Africa, as well as other African films. Come join us for some of the evening or for all of it, and share in the experience of personal digital storytelling and African filmmaking. We look forward to spending the evening together watching great films and supporting girls’education in Africa through the Kisa Project. For more information about the festival program, visit www.africaid.com.

The Kisa Project is an innovative AfricAid initiative that will directly link families and groups in the U.S. with some of Africa’s brightest young women – our Kisa scholars. American families and groups will raise funds for a Kisa Project scholarship, which will provide these young women with a school scholarship, entrance into a two-year leadership program, and individualized mentorship. During this period, the American sponsors will develop a meaningful relationship and forge strong bonds with their Kisa scholar, sharing in the joys and challenges of one another’s life stories through an interactive website. Upon graduation, these talented young women will return to their home communities to implement vital community projects and provide life-skills mentoring to other young women. In this way, the Kisa Project helps to uplift and support the next generation of leaders across Africa – and within your own community.

NO IMPACT MAN (Again)

As our screening of NO IMPACT MAN was so heavily impacted by technical problems we are going to show it again on:

Sunday, October 11 at 7pm only.
Sunday, October 18 at 7pm only.

Marina Goldovskaya

Marina Goldovskaya, world-famous award-winning Russian documentary filmmaker, professor (UCLA) presents:

Sunday, October 25, 3-6 pm, HUMANITIES 125

THE HOUSE ON ARBAT STREET, 1993, 59 min
The story of the people who lived in the House on Arbat Street in Moscow is the story of Russia in the 20th

century. Built in the early 1900s, this grand apartment building at first was a residence of rich and privileged families. Then, after the Revolution of 1917, it was turned into a collective housing unit. People from very different backgrounds were brought in and told to live together. Through historical footage and the reminiscences of former residents, some now 99 years old, the incredible story of the House on Arbat Street comes alive.

THE SHATTERED MIRROR, 1992, 60 min
This

film is an extraordinary personal journey through ordinary Russian life at a time of great change. The filmmaker uses her camera and familiarity with Russian society to present an intimate and piercing view of her fellow citizens and her country. At a fast-moving pace, we meet her friends and acquaintances, from the simple laborer to a newly rich entrepreneur. The filmmaker turns the camera on her own life as well, providing deeply personal revelations, through scenes of her own wedding and of her mother's death.

Monday, October 26, 3-5:30pm, ALTAS 102

A TASTE OF FREEDOM, 1991, 46 min. The film is a unique glimpse into the spring of 1990, a time of amazing change and urgency as Russia took its first steps after the fall of a 75-year old totalitarian regime. At the heart of it is a young family of journalists – Sasha Politkovsky (a prominent TV anchor), his wife Anna (who was destined to become a journalist of truly international fame for her coverage of the Chechnyan conflict and contemporary Russian issues) and their children.

THREE SONGS ABOUT MOTHERLAND, 2008, 39 min. This film gives a frank and vibrant picture of Russia today by focusing on its three different cities. In the Far East, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, older Russian citizens cling to the glorious promises of the Soviet Industrialization, and express disappointment at its ultimate failure. Then, Moscow bids farewell to Anna Politkovskaya, the fearless journalist and human rights activist who was assassinated for her political activity amid the chaotic power struggles of the post-Soviet nation. Finally, residents of Khanty-Mansijsk, one of the centers of Siberia’s budding oil industry, speak about their beloved fairy tale-like town, where the communist dream has been swept away by new aspirations for a prosperous future.

All screenings are free and open to the public

THE EVENT IS SPONSORED BY THE GCAH, DEPARTMENTS OF GSLL AND FILM STUDIES, AND THE SLAVIC DISCUSSION GROUP