Saturday, November 8
911 Media Arts Center

5:00PM
TOO FLAWED TO FIX: THE ILLINOIS DEATH PENALTY EXPERIENCE
with
TULIA, TEXAS: SCENES FROM THE DRUG WAR

7:00PM
RESISTENCIA: HIP-HOP IN COLOMBIA
with
STRONG ROOTS: THE LANDLESS WORKERS MOVEMENT IN BRAZIL

9:00PM
AFGHAN MASSACRE
with
SEARCH FOR FREEDOM

TOO FLAWED TO FIX: THE ILLINOIS DEATH PENALTY EXPERIENCE

Directors: Jackie River and John Lyons
2003. USA. 57 min. English
5:00 PM

TOO FLAWED TO FIX explores and exposes the irreparable flaws in the criminal justice system that wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death13 people in Illinois. This documentary puts before the people, not only of the United States but of the world, the stories of the injustices at the heart of American capital punishment.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
John Lyons
tooflawedtofix@hotmail.com

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TULIA, TEXAS: SCENES FROM THE DRUG WAR

Director: Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler
2002. USA. 26 min. English
5:00 PM

TULIA, TEXAS takes a look at the collateral consequences of the Drug War in America. A federally funded undercover anti-drug sting is undertaken in the small agricultural town of Tulia, Texas. The resulting fallout is the imprisonment of more than 10 percent of Tulia's African-American community.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice
tulia@kunstler.org

RESISTENCIA: HIP-HOP IN COLOMBIA

Director: Tom Feiling
2002. United Kingdom. 51 min. Spanish with English subtitles
7:00PM

RESISTENCIA is a radical and thought-provoking exploration of how young Colombians feel about the crisis afflicting their country. It chronicles a summer in the lives of some of Colombia's finest rappers, DJs and breakdancers, offering a glimpse of the countries long-running civil war through the eyes of youth directly affected by it. Its style is youthful and entertaining, but also angry and enlightening.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Faction Films
faction@factionfilms.co.uk

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STRONG ROOTS: THE LANDLESS WORKERS MOVEMENT IN BRAZIL

Directors: Aline Sasahara and Maria Luisa Mendoça
2001. Brazil. 41 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
7:00PM

In Brazil 1% of the population controls 46% of the agricultural land, leaving nearly five million families landless and poor. To battle this injustice, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) was founded in 1985 and has since become the most important social movement in the country. STRONG ROOTS documents the growth of the Landless Workers Movement, the courageous tactics it employs, and the brave peasants at its heart who risk their lives struggling for land and dignity.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Maria Luisa
marialuisa1@uol.com.br

AFGHAN MASSACRE

Director: Jamie Doran
2002. United Kingdom. 50 min. English
9:00 PM

Afghan Massacre tells of the horrific forced journey undertaken by thousands of prisoners who surrendered to Afghan allies of the U.S. military after the siege of Kunduz. Up to 3,000 are said to now lie buried in a mass grave. But was this a simple matter of Afghans killing Afghans? The film presents evidence to argue that American Special Forces may have taken control of the operation, re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert, and stood by as survivors were shot and buried.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Jeff Healey
acftv
jeff@acftv.net
www.acftv.net

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SEARCH FOR FREEDOM

Dir: Manizae Jehangir
2003. Pakistan. 54 min. English, Pashtu, Durri and Urdu with English subtitles
9:00 PM

This is a documentary film that explores the personal lives of four Afghan women who are based in Pakistan. Through a feminist lens, SEARCH FOR FREEDOM portrays how the lives of these women were affected by the political and social turmoil in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the present day. The film features Princess Shafiqa Saroj, the youngest sister of the King Amanullah (1919-1929); Mairman Khadija Parveen, who was the first woman to sing on Afghan Radio; Mohsina, a survivor of a Taliban massacre; and Sohaila, a medical student who played a key role in the establishment of secret schools during the Taliban rule.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Munizae Jahangir
Munizae-j@hotmail.com