Thursday, November 6
911 Media Arts Center

7:00PM
DEATH ON A FRIENDLY BORDER
with
BROTHERS AND OTHERS

9:00PM
THE NEW RULERS OF THE WORLD
with
IN WHOSE INTEREST

DEATH ON A FRIENDLY BORDER

Director: Rachel Antell
2001. Mexico/USA. 26 min. English and Spanish with English subtitles
7:00 PM

Since the mid-1990s, when the United States began militarizing its southern border, an average of one person a day has died crossing into our country. DEATH ON A FRIENDLY BORDER puts a human face on this international tragedy. We hear the story of one woman's journey from her impoverished village in Mexico into the US desert with her 18-month-old baby. And we hear the stories of the migrants, the Border Patrol agents, and the activists for whom the militarization of the border has become the governing reality of their lives.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Rachel Antell
rachelantell@earthlink.net

Plays with:

BROTHERS AND OTHERS

Director: Nicolas Rossier
2002. USA. 54 min. English
7:00 pm

BROTHERS AND OTHERS is a documentary on the impact of the September 11th tragedy on Muslims and Arabs living in America. This documentary follows a number of immigrants and American families as they struggle in the heightened climate of suspicion, FBI and INS investigations, and economic hardships that erupted in America following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In interviews with Arab and Muslim immigrants, government representatives, and a select group of legal and historical experts including Ghazi Khankan, Noam Chomsky and James Zogby, this film explores how America's fear of terrorism has negatively impacted a substantial portion of the American population.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Nicolas Rossier
nicolas@barakaproductions.com
www.barakaproductions.com

THE NEW RULERS OF THE WORLD

Director: Alan Lowery
2001. UK. 53 min. English
9:00 pm

In order to examine the true effects of globalization, acclaimed British journalist John Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalized economy collapsed in 1998. The film examines the use of sweatshop factories by famous brand names, and asks who really benefits from the globalized economy. John Pilger goes behind the hype of the new global economy and looks at the new rulers of the world-the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Bullfrog Films
video@bullfrogfilms.com

Plays with:

IN WHOSE INTEREST

Director: David Kaplowitz
2002. USA. 27 min. English
9:00 pm

Filmmaker David Kaplowitz takes an eye-opening journey, questioning the effects of U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years. Revealing a pattern of intervention, the film focuses on Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor, El Salvador, and Palestine/Israel. Archival footage, photographs and media tidbits are dynamically interwoven with personal eye-witness accounts and commentary from academics - such as Noam Chomsky - religious leaders and politicians. IN WHOSE INTEREST is informative and disturbingly honest, yet upbeat, with twists of irony and humor.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
David Kaplowitz
inwhoseinterest@yahoo.com
www.inwhoseinterest.org