[Reellife] Eleven year-olds speak!

[dave olsen]

/I am Eleven/ <http://viff.org/theatre/films/fc8554-i-am-eleven> is a 
documentary about a few 11 year-olds scattered around the planet.  The 
filmmaker, Genevieve Bailey, describes how she wanted to travel but not lie on a 
beach and that a recent car crash and loss of her father had depressed her.  So 
she recalled that when she was eleven, she had the time of her life...

I really appreciated her attempt at diversity in this film; rich and poor, girl 
and boy, north and south, indigenous and migrant.

What struck me most was how globalization/civilization has affected virtually 
everyone in this film.  She went far and wide and yet most, if not all, of these 
eleven year-olds could speak for each other very easily.  More scary was the 
universal desire to get a job, at least for those in school.

More importantly to me, it also shows how rich and poor are extremes in more 
than one way: economically rich are usually socially poor, and the socially rich 
are often economically poor...the wishes spoken speak louder than these words 
could ever try.

/I am Eleven/ <http://viff.org/theatre/films/fc8554-i-am-eleven> is scheduled to 
maximize eleven year-old audience members (it seems), by playing the next 3 
Saturday mornings at the Vancity Theatre <http://viff.org/theatre> in downtown 
Vancouver:

Sat Jul 11 @ 11:00am
Sat Jul 18 @ 12:15PM
Sat Jul 25 @ 11:30am and
Mon Jul 27 @ 4:30PM

PS. The Vancity Theatre <http://viff.org/theatre> has quite a lineup of films in 
the coming weeks, so I suggest that you follow my review blog 
<https://reellife.wordpress.com/> to stay on top of their offerings; I don't 
want to overwhelm this list!
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Warmly,
dave/
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