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Free Political Film Screenings Cinema Politica is a project organized by Montréal-based non-profit überculture, and comprises a network of several local film exhibition series across Canada, Europe and the USA.

Projects, Campaigns & Collaborations

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    Citizen Media Rendez-Vous 2010
    Date(s): 23-Aug-2010  to 23-Aug-2010

    Cinema Politica is proud to co-sponsor this amazing Montreal event and as part of our support, participants will be treated to daily screenings of CP films. About the event: The
    Citizen Media Rendez-Vous gathers bloggers, engaged filmmakers,
    photographers and citizen journalists, media experts, alternative and independent media practitioners, web entrepreneurs, as well as others from the media landscape in turmoil. The Citizen Media Rendez-Vous is a space that promotes the sharing of ideas and practices. It invites new perspectives and encourages new collaborations. Lively exchanges among panelists and  participants will touch subjects such as the creation of content, the containers within which content is placed (technology platforms) and different community organizational models.

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    Neighbourhood on the Move (Montreal)
    Date(s): 10-Jul-2010  to 31-Jul-2010

    Between July 10th and July 31 in 2010, Cinema Politica is teaming up with Eco-Quariter Peter-McGill to show four great documentaries outside, projeted against a building, in downtown Montreal for free. The screenings are part of the full days of arts, crafts, activities and public participation. So come check out our screenings under the night sky!

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    Montreal Infringement Festival screening of Grass
    Date(s): 21-Jun-2010

    Cinema Politica and Montreal's Infringement Festival present a very special screening of Grass, the acclaimed documentary on pot by Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann. Proceeds from this screening will go to local compassion clubs that have recently come under unjustified attack by Quebec authorities.

    Grass will screen on Monday, June 21 at 7:30 PM (doors at 7), @ Theatre Plaza, 6505 St. Hubert, Montreal, QC.

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    Montreal First Peoples Festival & Cinema Politica
    Date(s): 16-Jun-2010  to 27-Jun-2010

    Cinema Politica is co-presenting four powerful evenings of political documentaries at the 2010 Montreal First People's Film Festival. Follow the link here for more details.

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    Montreal on Screen
    Date(s): 29-May-2010  to 03-Jun-2010

    Cinema Politica is teaming up with the Concordia Documentary Centre in conjunction with Congress 2010 to bring you a fabulous program of five nights of excellent documentaries about Montreal at the end of May.

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    Adopt-a-Doc
    Date(s): 01-May-2010  to 01-May-2020

    In 2010 Cinema Politica initiated a program to support independent Canadian documentaries during the production stage, and before broadcasters and/or financiers have "come on board." In other words, we started Adopt-a-doc to offer our support to independent films struggling to get made in the very tough climate of documentary in Canada.

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    Haiti Fundraising screenings of Aristide and the Endless Revolution
    Date(s): 15-Feb-2010  to 28-Feb-2010

    Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed hundreds of thousands and left millions homeless, Cinema Politica locals throughout January and February, 2010, held fundraiser screenings of the excellent film Aristide and Endless Revolution. In total, over $8,000 was raised, with all proceeds having gone to relief efforts for
    survivors of the earthquake.

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    The Coca Cola Case Film Tour
    Date(s): 01-Jan-2010  to 03-Mar-2010

    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.

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    POV Magazine Special Education Issue
    Date(s): 01-Jan-2010  to 01-Mar-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.

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