[opirgyork] Rebels With A Cause Film Festival Starts TODAY!

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REBELS WITH A CAUSE
Film Festival

October 24th to 28th, 2011
York University Campus

REBELS WITH A CAUSE is a 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
Nat Taylor Cinema - Ross 102
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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
Nat Taylor Cinema - Ross 102
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REact commemorates the G20 standoff in Parkdale one year ago. Some 
videos are interpreting and reacting to the events of Toronto’s G20, 
while other works are testaments to resistance movements nationally and 
internationally. The humorous nature of some works divulges a strategy 
of dissent to authority. Other works directly address trauma. All the 
works are presented with sensitivity and in a spirit of solidarity with 
Parkdale as a global community concerned with equity and human rights 
worldwide.

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

2:30PM – 4:30PM
York Focus: Films by, for and of York community
Student Centre RM 313
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York Focus features films by York student filmmakers and faculty. The 
themes span the intersection of dance and social activism, reconciling 
the social pressure to be closeted and Asian stereotyping within 
interracial dating. Other shorts examine the memorialization, loss and 
salvage of diasporic identity, struggles with the administration during 
the recent York strike and the marginalization of student voice in Vari 
Hall.

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
Student Centre RM 313
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Synopsis: The filmmaker’s stereotypical image of North American Indians 
begins to change when he meets Jeffrey Thomas, an Iroquois photographer, 
who documents contemporary Aboriginal experience. His images bear little 
resemblance to those of turn-of-the-century photographers, exemplified 
by Edward Curtis. Using archival material to contrast the work of these 
two photographers, the filmmaker demonstrates the role that visual 
images have played in shaping views of Aboriginal people.

 >>>A conversation with Ali Kazimi and Jeff Thomas: filmmaker and artist 
revisit their collaboration of almost 15 years ago. Facilitated by 
Richard Hill
A conversation with Ali Kazimi and Jeff Thomas
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***Wednesday October 26th 2011****

2:30PM – 5:30PM
Dis(Orient)ation, Curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul
Nat Taylor Cinema - 102 Ross
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Comprising several approaches to radical aesthetics, each of the films 
in this programme have perhaps found ways to cause dis(orient)ation. 
They defy what Susan Sontag argues conventional images of zones of 
conflict do: “They reiterate. They simplify. They agitate. They create 
the illusion of consensus.” Elia Suileman’s first feature film breaks 
from so-called “Pallywood” conventions and evokes the unexpected by 
calling upon what viewers already know about the situation to transform 
the image. Annemarie Jacir’s first widely circulated short film breaks 
apart on a formal level to focus attention on the power imbalances 
inherent in political filmmaking. Sarah’s Wood’s archival film made 
without an archive serves as an exploration into the uncertainty of the 
documentary mode.

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
Nat Taylor Cinema - 102 Ross
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Synopsis: Arna's Children is a 2003 Israeli/Dutch documentary film 
directed by Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel about a children's 
theater group in Jenin in the Palestinian territories established by 
Arna Mer-Khamis, the director's mother, an Israeli Jewish political and 
human rights activist.

Students Against Israeli Apartheid Panel

****Thursday October 27th 2011****
2:30PM – 4:30PM
Queer & Trans Activism
Vari Hall 3005
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This programme examines themes which confront racism within the queer 
community, the silence surrounding trans identity, rigid gender norms, 
and the criminalization of racialized and trans identities. Other shorts 
include an epic queer retelling of Jewish history which transgresses 
boundaries and a testimony on migrating through territories whilst 
fighting discrimination.

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
Vari Hall 3003
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 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: Rinchen Dolma, Monique Woolnough

****Friday October 28th 2011****
6:00PM – 7:00PM: Closing Event

7:00PM – 10:00PM
The Personal & the Political Story of Activism
Nat Taylor Cinema - 102 Ross
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This program opens with a short which focuses on black women and 
examines the issues of race, representation and the role of the spoken 
word in strengthening communities. This will be followed by the 
documentary "Mountains That Take Wing" which features conversations 
between activists Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama. The film explores the 
suppression of Women within the civil rights movement and activism, and 
deconstructs the prison industrial complex and the role of education in 
the struggle for social liberation.

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