Event Details
Reel Justice Film Series
Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 7:00pm
Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 7:00pm
California Lutheran University, Lundring Events Center, 60 W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks
Event Description
California Lutheran University's Center for Equality and Justice and the Office of Student Leadership presents the Reel for Justice Film Series.
The annual free film series sponsored by the California Lutheran University Center for Equality and Justice returns each fall with movies on a whole different host of issues.
March 8th at 7pm
View from a Grain of Sand
Combining vérité footage, interviews and rare archival material, View From a Grain of Sand is a harrowing, thought-provoking, yet intimate portrait of Afghan women's history over the last 30 years - from the rule of King Zahir Shah in the 1960s to the current Hamid Karzai government. Told through the eyes of three Afghan women - a doctor, a teacher and women's rights activist, this documentary tells the story of how war, international interference and the rise of political Islam has stripped Afghan women of rights and freedom. Together with rarely seen archival footage, their powerful stories provide illuminating context for Afghanistan's current situation and the ongoing battle women face to gain even basic human rights.
Writer/director Meena Nanji is known for her experimental film work, which has won numerous awards and has screened at film/video festivals internationally as well as broadcast on PBS stations throughout the United States and on European television.
April 7th at 7PM
The Yes Men Fix The World
The Yes Men Fix The World is a screwball true story about two political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate excesses impact the world.
Yes Men opened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film begins with the Yes Men's famous 2004 impersonation of a Dow Chemical spokesperson taking responsibility for the largest industrial accident in history before 300 million people on BBC World News. It ends with the much-reported distribution of 100,000 copies of a fake New York Times - a "good news" edition announcing, among other things, the end of the Iraq War.
Admission is free to all Reel Justice screenings.
- Sponsored By
CLU Center for Equality and Justice and the Office of Student Leadership
- More Information
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Phone: (805) 493-3694
Email: cej@callutheran.edu
Web site: http://www.callutheran.edu
