2012 ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
TONIGHT April 19, 2012 $6 FILMS ABOUT POLITICAL CHANGE
#whilewewatch
Kevin Breslin, USA, 2011, 39 min.
Largely downplayed by mainstream media, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement reached out to the public on its own. Using social media and video streaming, the #OWS media team made live, unexpurgated coverage of OWS available to the world. Hailed for ushering in a media revolution, the team’s contributions to information sharing continue to challenge conventional assumptions about what constitutes reliable reporting.
Chaotic and passionate, participant reflections and police conduct are captured by citizen reporters. Recording events on cell phones, these reporters are undaunted by hostile weather or society’s objections.
In #whilewewatch, #OWS media team members share their process. Even though public officials and mainstream media have leveled criticism, the #OWS media approach may yet spark new ways of exercising effective citizenship.
preceded by WE WIN OR WE DIE
Matthew Millan, USA/Libya, 2011, 21 min.
In 2011, Libyans protested Gaddafi’s brutal regime and laid siege to the impregnable Katiba fortress. One man’s heroic act breaches Katiba’s walls and liberates Benghazi.
TONIGHT Thursday, April 19, 2012 6:00pm
The Screening Room, 127 East Congress
Admission $6
This program is sponsored by our community partner ACCESS TUCSON
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Horror Double Feature $10 This Friday at The Screening Room
Friday, April 20, 2012
8:00pm
IT’S IN THE BLOOD
Two men (Lance Henriksen and Sean Elliot) with conflicting personalities find themselves stranded in an unforgiving wilderness with nothing but their instincts and the emotional baggage they carry. Through a set of strange and terrifying events, their past is slowly uncovered layer by layer. (Scooter Downey, USA, 2012, 81 min.)
10:00pm
BELOW ZERO
Desperate for creative inspiration after his first and only film, horror screenwriter “Jack the Hack” (Edward Furlong) makes a deal with his agent to sequester himself inside a meat locker in order to avoid worldly distractions and to induce ideas for his next big project. Equipped with nothing but a laptop, Jack creates a story about a writer in his exact situation who begins to experience strange and frightening things. (Justin Thomas Ostensen, Canada, 2012, 98 min.)
SINGLE FEATURE ADMISSION $8 DOUBLE HORROR ADMISSION $10
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