[opirgyork] Rebels With A Cause Film Festival needs your help!

[aruna at opirgyork.ca]

Hey all,

We are so excited for the upcoming REBELS WITH A CAUSE film festival -
starting next week, monday October 24th to 28th 2011, all free and on the
York campus.

We need volunteers!!! We are looking for people to poster and flyer all
this week, if you are able to help out - please stop by the office in the
student centre RM 449C to grab the materials! :)

Check out the full program below!
- OPIRG York

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*REBELS WITH A CAUSE** Film Festival*

October 24th to 28th, 2011
York University Campus

REBELS WITH A CAUSE is a free film festival organized for and by York
community members. In screening films that are artistically,
politically, and socially critical, combined with artist's talks, panel
discussions, and Q&A's, REBELS WITH A CAUSE aims to (re)introduce its
audience to the political and social spheres at York and its community
while inciting action & education through the avenue of film.
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***Monday October 24th 2011****

2:30PM – 4:30PM

Artist’s Talk: Bear Witness
Bear Witness will open Rebels With A Cause with an artist's talk on his
works as video artist and experimental filmmaker.

Bear Witness is an Ottawa-based media artist who has been producing
short experimental videos for over eight years. His award-winning works
that have been exhibited nationally and internationally include The
Story of Apinachie and her Redheaded Wrestler, BrokeDickDog, Drive By: A
Road Trip with Jeff Thomas, In the Cut: A Video Mix-Tape. Bear also
produces live audio-visual performances and co-founded A Tribe Called
Red, a native DJ collective who produce music internationally known as
Pow Wow-step, and hosts a monthly event called Electric Pow Wow.

6:00PM – 8:00PM

REact:G20, Co-presented by Parkdale Film + Video Showcase

Victory Salute – Trevor Tureski
Dear Stephen Harper – Alison Taylor & Sabine LeBel
(3days before) G20 “Fence” – Lauren Satok
1 Question – Liz Knox
Packin’ – John Greyson
Left to Eat Cake – Ananya Ohri
Afganimation – Allyson Mitchell
Raw Memory – Jorge Lozano
Like a Nice Rubber Gas Mask – Malcolm Rogge
Cut – Julieta Maria

7:30PM - 8PM

Political Filmmaking Panel

Panelists: Sabine LeBel, Jorge Lozano, Ananya Ohri, Alison Taylor

****Tuesday October 25th, 2011****

2:30PM – 4:30PM

York Focus: Films by, for and of York community

Banana Bruises – Joyce Wong
The Golden Pin – Cuong Ngo
MataDanze – Amil Shivji
Remember the Disremembered – Victoria Moufawad-Paul
Homophony – Jorge Lozano
Motet for Amplified Voices – John Greyson

Vari Hall Preservation Panel
Panelists: Clare O’Connor, Imran Kaderdina, Laila Rashidie

6:00PM – 8:00PM

Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas
A conversation with Ali Kazimi and Jeff Thomas

****Wednesday October 26th 2011****

2:30PM – 5:30PM

Dis(Orient)ation, Curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul

Like Twenty Impossibles – Annemarie Jacir
Chronicle of a Disappearance – Elia Suleiman
For Cultural Purpose Only – Sarah Wood

Q&A with Vicky Moufawad-Paul

6:00PM – 8:00PM

Arna’s Children – Juliano Mer Khamis & Danniel Danniel
Students Against Israeli Apartheid Panel

****Thursday October 27th 2011****

2:30PM – 4:30PM

Queer & Trans Activism

Invisible - Xavier Hogue
Seeking Single White Male - Vivek Shraya
Ache in My Name - Vivek Shraya
The Decadence of Your Starvation - Julia Rivera
Red Lips [Cages for Black Girls] – Kyisha Williams
CAMP – Alexis Mitchell
Land(E)scaping – Jorge Lozano

Queer & Trans Activism Panel

Panelists: Alexis Mitchell, Julia Rivera, Vivek Shraya, Kyisha Williams

6:00PM – 8:00PM

Indigenous Struggles

 From Nomad to Nobody – Michael Buckley
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside
– Alejandro Zuluaga & Harsha Walia
As Long As the Rivers Flow: the Story of the Grassy Narrows – Dave Clement

Indigenous Struggles Panel
Panelists: to be confirmed

****Friday October 28th 2011****

6:00PM – 7:00PM: Closing Event TBA

7:00PM – 10:00PM
The Personal & the Political Story of Activism

Black Womyn Griots: D’bi Young & Helen Yohannes Speak – Helen Yohannes
Mountains That Take Wings – C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan

Personal & Political Story of Activism Panel
Panelists: to be confirmed