Sunday, March 28

Pittsburgh Filmmakers-Melwood Screening Room

8:00PM
THE COCONUT REVOLUTION

RESPIRE

CHEVRON-TEXACO: ECUADOR'S BLACK PLAGUE

THE COCONUT REVOLUTION

Director: Dom Rotheroe
2002. United Kingdom. 52 min. English
8.00pm

Bows and arrows against helicopter gunships, and bows win - with a little help from the coconut. This is Bougainville, a small island off the coast of Papua New Guinea and the site of the world's first successful ecological revolution. The world paid no attention when in the sixties the British company Rio Tinto Zinc bulldozed jungle in Bougainville and proceeded to dig the word's largest open-cast mine. Then in 1989 the indigenous inhabitants launched a remarkable and ultimately victorious revolt. Dodging bullets and evading the gunboat blockade that encircled the small island, filmmaker Dom Rotheroe documented this David and Goliath story of the 21st century.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Mike Chamberlain
mike@stampede.co.uk

Plays with Respire and ChevronTexaco: Ecuador's Black Plague

RESPIRE

Director: Jerome Combe, Stéphane Hamache & André Bessy
2003. France. 3 min. French.

An environmental animated music video from the French band Mickey 3D.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
www.respire-leclip.com

CHEVRON-TEXACO: ECUADOR'S BLACK PLAGUE

Produced by Amazon Watch
2002. USA. 10min. English and Spanish with English voiceover.

This short film examines the impact that oil giant ChevronTexaco has had on the environment of Ecuador.

Followed by remarks and Q&A with Dr. Ellen Dorsey, founding director, Human Rights and Environment program, Amnesty Int'l USA

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
www.amazonwatch.org