Media Coverage
CINEMA POLITICA IN THE NEWS - GENERAL
+ Montreal-Based Cinema Politica Steadily Increases its Reach, Art with Impact, 16 April 2013.
+ Cinema Politica: Politically Active with a Side of Popcorn, Gradlife, 26 February 2013.
+ Conditions Dropped in Security Certificate Case, Toronto Media Co-op, 9 January 2013.
+ Inside Sweet Crude, Sun News, 11 June 2012.
+ Film for Thought, The Daily, April 5 2012.
+ Seven years of Cinema Politica—The lives of nannies—Refugees and their rights—Roller derby funds, Montreal Mirror, 31 March 2011.
+ Cinema Politica: How a Montreal grassroots documentary initiative is making a global impact, Nightlife Magazine, 25 March 2011.
+ Cinema Politica is a hive of social activism, The Gazette, 19 March 2011.
+ Cinema Politica: Artists Against apartheid, Tadamon!, 5 November 2010.
+ Cultural Crossroads: Cinema Politica: Activist projections, Hour Community, 8 April 2010.
+ Killer Coke is no joke, The Sheaf, 11 February 2010.
+ Coke under examination in new doc, The Lance, 10 February 2010.
+ Killer Coke? Film courts controversy, The Windsor Star, 8 February 2010.
+ The Coca-Cola Case: first film to be screened as a result of the new NFB-Cinema Politica partnership, National Film Board of Canada, 2 February 2010.
+ Film aimed at Coca-Cola draws icey response, ajc.com, 26 January 2010.
+ Coca-Cola threatens Cinema Politica documentary screening, The McGill Daily, 21 January 2010.
+ Film group says plans to screen Coca-Cola doc, The People's United Community, 20 January 2010.
+ L'affaire Coca-Cola Un film au gout amer, selon l'entreprise, Radio-Canada, 20 January 2010.
+ Coca-Cola documentary draws company's ire, CTV British Columbia, 19 January 2010.
+ Coke discourages screenings of labour documentary, CBC News, 18 January 2010.
+ Sickly Sweet Censorship, NB Media Co-op, 17 January 2010.
+ Coca-Cola intimidates student group over film screening, Art Threat, 15 January 2010.
+ The NFB joins forces with Cinema Politica, NFB.ca Blog, 11 January 2010.
+ Cinema Politica Screens, Streams NFB Content, Mediacaster Magazine, 8 January 2010.
+ Cinema Politica: a grassroots cinema distribution network, The Warehouse, 2010.
+ Cinema Politica faces funding crisis, Socialdoc.net, April 2008.
+ From Grassroots to Global Networks: Cinema Politica and the Cultural Reprise of Political Documentary, Art Threat, 12 May 2007.
CINEMA POLITICA IN THE NEWS - LOCALS
+ Popular documentary film series to launch in St. John's, The Independent News, 15 April 2013.
+ Depictions of Aboriginals in cinema focus of film to be shown in Timmins, Timmins Press, 17 March 2013.
+ The disease that demolishes porn stars, The Concordian, 29 January 2013.
+ Inside Lara Roxx: former Montreal adult-film star on the deadly price of porn fame, The Gazette, 25 January 2013.
+ No house to call home, The Concordian, 22 January 2013.
+ Cinema Politica s'amène à l'Université Laval, L'Appel, 21 January 2013.
+ A Quick Study on Social Issues: Packed Schedule of Free Screenings this Season for Cinema Politica, The Link, 20 January 2013.
+ Desensitization to suffering: A harrowing look into the shady organizational relief efforts in post-earthquake Haiti, The Concordian, 15 January 2013.
+ Cinema Politica screens anti-plastic film, draws local MLA to UFV, The Cascade, 31 October 2012.
+ Arts – Education: SUS Partners With Cinema Politica, Chilliwack Today, 17 October 2012.
+ FTB & BFF present: Cinema Politica Fall 2012, CUTV Montreal, 11 October 2012.
+ Popcorn and intellectual discussion form the basis of Cinema Politica, The Cascade, 3 October 2012.
+ Cinema Politica Review: Blood in the Mobile, The Brunswickan, 3 October 2012.
+ 'Mine to Mobile': The Bloody Journey, The New Brunswick Beacon, 2 October 2012.
+ Cinema Politica Truth = Power, Hilker Berlin, 2 October 2012.
+ Cinema Politica screens tuth to power at the Bloor Cinema this Fall, Toronto Film Scene, 1 October 2012.
+ Doc Days Ahead: Cinema Politica Returns to Concordia, The Link, 1 October 2012.
+ Movement, memory and mobilization, The Concordian, 25 September 2012.
+ Freedom to squat: The Concordian reviews Cinema Politica's first film of the year, The Concordian, 18 September 2012.
+ Executive Director Svetla Turnin interviewed by CKUT Radio, CKUT Radio, 12 September 2012.
+ Sweet Crude Director Sandy Cioffi at Q&A @ Bloor Hot Docs Theatre, FILMbutton, 13 June 2012.
+ Sweet Crude: Interview with Sandy Cioffi, Scene Creek, 11 June 2012.
+ Day of films focus on First Nations, The Sun Times, April 29 2012.
+ Film for Thought, Washington Bus, 24 April 2012.
+ Film for Thought New Seattle chapter of nonprofit organization looks to raise awareness through documentaries, The Daily, 5 April 2012.
+ Cinema Politica and Bloor Hot Docs Unite!, Docspace, 14 March 2012.
+ Cinema Politica: Anthropology under fire in Secrets of the Tribe, Montreal Gazette, 23 January 2012.
+ NDP campaigning in our schools?, Maple Ridge News, 17 January 2012.
+ CBC NEWS, Clip on Cinema Politica New Brunswick at 11:20 min, CBC news, 6 January 2012.
+ Cinema Politica screening next week, Maple Ridge News, 8 June 2011.
+ Cinema Politica Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Presents, New Westminster & District Labour Council, June 2011.
+ Israel vs. Israel: A Cinema Politica review, The Brunswickan, 28 September 2011.
+ The Return of Cinema Politica: Fall '11 Lineup Includes G20, Chicago Street Violence Docs, The Link, 13 September 2011.
+ Campus film series looks at Palestine wall struggle, Nexus Newspaper, 17 April 2011.
+ It's All Your Fault: Cinema Politica 'Just Stop Breathing', The Link, 29 March 2011.
+ Cinema Politica presents Earthlings, Whistler Question, 16 March 2011.
+ Cinema Politica Tackles Issues of Homelessness, The Cord, 15 March 2011.
+ John Greyson accepts inaugural Alanis Obamsawin Award, Playbackonline.ca, 7 March 2011.
+ Cinema Politica Screens "The Garden" on Monday, Medecine Hat Media, 28 February 2011.
+ Cinema Politica honouring filmmaker John Greyson, The Montreal Gazette, 14 February 2011.
+ Cinema Politica Finds Its Home, Patch, 13 February 2011.
+ Cinema Politica Launch, RCE North East News, February 2011.
+ Corporate iinks to fed gov't revealed, The Record-Gazette, February 2011.
+ Alternative documentaries: Cinema Politica Victoria gives room for thought, Playinvictoria.net, 19 January 2011.
+ Water on the Table at Cinema Politica, Whistler Question, 19 January 2011.
+ Cinema Politica film explores free market system, The Record-Gazette, January 2011.
+ Cinema Politica offers funny and informative pot film, Whistler Question, 15 December 2010.
+ Camosun presents year-round film series, Nexus Newspaper, 9 December 2010.
+ Les Yes Men, activistes par le canular, Radio-Canada, 7 December 2010.
+ The Yes Men bring down the house, Socialdoc.net, December 2010.
+ Mt. A students critical of Coke face censorship, NB Media Co-op, 2 December 2010.
+ Cinema Politica bringing the real Yes Men to Concordia screening, Montreal Gazette, 26 November, 2010.
+ Bananas Comes to Medicine Hat, Medecine Hat Media, 26 November 2010.
+ Film series sheds light on oil industry, The Cord, 17 November 2010.
+ Political film series continues at WLU, The Cord, 27 October 2010.
+ Gasland spurs discussion about natural gas development, The Argosy, 30 September 2010.
+ Political films find home at Laurier, The Cord, 29 September 2010.
+ Cinema Politica engages college community, Nexus Newspaper, 26 September 2010.
+ Activist film group cries censorship, Cape Cod Times, 22 September 2010.
+ Cinema Politica and Woods Hole Community Association Part Ways Over Censorship, Z Blogs, 17 September 2010.
+ Mount Allison Cinema Politica kicks off new year, The Argosy, 16 September 2010.
+ Cinema Politica Fresh Screening, Freshthemovie.com, 16 September 2010.
+ Cinema Politica is Back at Concordia, The Link, 14 september 2010.
+ The Woods Hole Cinema Politica Saga Continues, Z Blogs, 17 July 2010.
+ Propaganda, racism and censorship at play over the Woods Hole Cinema Politica fracas, Art Threat, 15 July 2010.
+ Resume the Film Series, Cape Cod Times, 14 July 2010.
+ Ending Cinema Politica suppresses free speech, Cape Cod Times, 10 July 2010.
+ Keep Cinema Politica in woods Hole!, Petition Spot, 22 June 2010.
+ Woods Hole & Palestine, Z Blogs, 7 June 2010.
+ Montreal on film documentary series at Concordia, DocSpace, May 2010.
+ Live Nude Girls Banned in Sweden, Art Threat, 8 March 2010.
+ Cinema Politica in Fundy, NB Media Co-op, 26 February 2010.
+ Kitchener-Waterloo to get local chapter of Cinema Politica, Daily Exchange, 26 February 2010.
+ L'Affaire Coca-Cola - Cineastes utopiques, Rue Frontenac, 26 February 2010.
+ Assassination of Trade Unionists in columbia: it's the "Real Thing" Cinema Politica Cape Breton Hosts Screening of the Coca Cola Case, Caper Times, 24 February 2010.
+ Documentary series launches, Telegraph-Journal, 23 February 2010.
+ International Headaches for Coke, The Canadian Union of Public Employees, 7 February 2010.
+ Cinema Politica brings independent documentary films to Montreal in weekly screening, The Examiner, 7 February 2010.
+ Cinema Politica London puts Coca-Cola in hot seat, London Free Press, 5 February 2010.
+ Controverse autour de la projection du documentaire "L'Affaire Coca-cola", L'Etoile, 28 January 2010.
+ Carleton vs Coca-Cola vs Cinema, Charlatan.ca, 28 January 2010.
+ Cinema Politica's Campus Screening of Coca-Cola Documentary Stirs Controversy, DocSpace, 17 January 2010.
+ New Film "The Coca-Cola Case" Opens with Attempts by Coke Lawyers to Censor, Killer Coke, 15 January 2010.
+ The Coca-Cola Case: Sickly sweet, Hour Community, 14 January 2010.
+ Cinema Politica and a case of Coke, Montreal Gazette, 12 January 2010.
+ Coca-Cola lawyers threaten Cinema-Politica, The Link- Volume 30 Issue 18, 12 January 2010.
+ Corruption Classic, The Link- Volume 30 Issue 18, 12 January 2010.
+ Cinema Politica Presents: Krzysztof Wodiczko: Projections, Fredericton Film Calendar, 8 January 2010.
+ Press Releases The Coca-Cola Case Tour: NFB Partners with Cinema Politica, National Film Board of Canada, 8 January 2010.
+ Cola flick fizzes, Montreal Mirror, January 2010.
+ Cinema Politica returns, Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune, 2010.
+ Controversial film screened in Peace River despite legal threat, The Record-Gazette, 2010.
+ 2009 Montreal in Review: Rewind the 09 Cinema Paradiso, Hour Community, 17 December 2009.
+ RIDM 2009: H2Oil's Montreal Premiere, Montreal Gazette Blogs, 13 November 2009.
+ Sex Labour Smut film festival: Bush & porn, Hour Community, 15 October 2009.
+ Work All Hot and Steamy The Sex, Labour, Smut film festival peeks under the covers of the skin trade, Montreal Mirror, October 2009.
+ Cinema with awareness opens, The Windsor Star, 11 September 2009.
+ Heroes of cinema, Montreal Mirror, September 2009.
+ Death to Cinema Politica: A Question of Academic Freedom?, (Cult)ure Magazine, October 2008.
+ Celluloid Politics Cinema Politica Celebrates Five Years of Free, Weekly and Controversial Screenings, Montreal Mirror, 17 September 2008.
+ Cinema Politica screening ignites controversy: Sugar shock, Hour Community, 28 February 2008.
+ Con U film paranoia, Montreal Mirror, 17 October 2007.
+ Films with a Purpose, The Concordian, 2 October 2007.
+ Politics on film, Montreal Mirror, 19 September 2007.
+ Teen-vangelicals, Montreal Mirror, 28 February 2007.
+ Patwardhan screenings, Montreal Mirror, 19 April 2006.
+ Cinema Politica asks students for support, The Concordian, 15 March 2006.
+ Doc indoctrination, Montreal Mirror, 23 February 2005.
+ Chomsky screening offers fresh perspective, The Concordian, 15 November 2003.
+ Cinema Politica at ConU, The Concordian, 8 October 2003.
