Projects & Campaigns
The Coca Cola Case Film Tour
January - March, 2010
Film screenings and panels throughout the CP Network
In January, February and March of 2010 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Cinema Politica are teaming up to organize a tour of the documentary THE COCA-COLA CASE, a film about the legal case against Coca-Cola and their operations in Colombia. Below are the tour dates, the film's synopsis, trailer and other information.
On January 11, 2010, lawyers representing Coca-Cola sent Cinema Politica a letter implying that by showing THE COCA COLA CASE throughout our network we were violating the law. As far as we have been told, this is not the case, and we are continuing with our plans to screen this critical and controversial documentary throughout
our network. For more on the legal letter, visit the Tour's page.
Haiti Fundraising screenings of Aristide and the Endless Revolution
January and February, 2010
Film screenings of Aristide documentary throughout the CP Network, all proceeds go to relief efforts for survivors of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti
Over $4,000 was raised across the Network by the beginning of February. More info to come soon...
Challenge for Change Book Tour
February - May, 2010
Screenings and book launches throughout the CP Network of the book Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada edited by Cinema Politica founder Ezra Winton, with Thomas Waugh and Michael Brendan Baker and published by McGill-Queen's University Press in February/March 2010.
POV Magazine Special Education Issue
Winter 2010
For the Winter 2010 issue of Canada's independent documentary magazine, POV, Cinema Politica's programmer Ezra Winton wrote an article and Cinema Politica provided co-sponsorship. We're proud to promote this excellent Canadian magazine and hope you check out their special issue on education and documentary.
Sex, Labour, Smut Film and Video Festival
Friday, October 16 - Monday, October 19, 2009
Concordia University
Cinema Politica and the Concordia Documentary Centre present a selection of film and video, new and classic, Canadian and international, about sex. Nine programs of documentary and experimental/nonfiction focus on two of today's most politicized topics, sexwork and pornography. Connecting and contextualizing bodies, genders, identities, desires and difference, this anti-sexist,
anti-phobic festival confronts morality and obscenity with performance, pleasure, and politics. The festival was curated by Shannon Harris, Svetla Turnin, Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton.
