LOS ANGELES SCHEDULE NewFilmmakers  opens at The  Arclight NEXT WEEK Mitch McCabe  THIS CORROSION   XXI CENTURY Jury Special Mention as an OUTSTANDING FILM in the Long Documentary Film Competition at the 8th ISMAILIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Ismailia, Egypt 2004 AUDIENCE AWARD for the BEST TV SERIES at DOCUMENTA MADRID - Madrid, Spain 2004 "POWERFUL TESTIMONIES! THIS CERTAINLY DESERVES TO BE SEEN BY A BROAD AUDIENCE." - HOWARD ZINN - Historian - Author of "A People's History of the United States" NOAM CHOMSKY, HOWARD ZINN, GORE VIDAL, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR, AMY GOODMAN, HARRY BELAFONTE, THE NATION, ACLU, SUSAN SARANDON, ANGELA DAVIS, PETE SEEGER, JESSE JACKSON, AL SHARPTON, DANNY GLOVER, PACIFICA FOUNDATION, UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE, NOT IN OUR NAME, INTERNATIONAL ANSWER, SEPTEMBER 11th FAMILIES FOR PEACEFUL TOMORROWS, GREG PALAST, DANNY SCHECHTER AND MANY OTHER VOICES OF DISSENT IN BUSH'S AMERICA More Information at http://thecatsdream.com

Winter  2004 NewFilmmakers Series Wednesday, October 13th    Special Political Evening Starts 6PM  SPECIAL POLITICAL NIGHT WITH THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL and a Special XXI CENTURY Documentary Screening. Schlock 'N Awe Directed by Robert Lyons Based on the cartoon by Ward Sutton (3 min./Color/2004) Bush/Cheney 2004? Based on a cartoon by Ward Sutton, this campaign parody asks the question - can this country survive four more years? Daastar: Defending Sikh Identity Kevin Lee  (14min/color/2004) Sikh Americans rise to defend their civil rights in the wake of post-9/11 discrimination against the dastaar (turban), a symbol of Sikh identity. B.E.S. (Bangla East Side) Sarita Khurana & Fariba Alam / The Educational Alliance (45 min/color/2004) B.E.S. (Bangla East Side) is a documentary portrait of four Bangladeshi teenagers growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City. Initially started as an after school workshop at a local high school, the film follows Mahfuja, Jemi, Saleh and Maroofa as they travel between home and school, and as they negotiate their lives as young immigrant teens in post 9-11 America. and Gabriele Zamparini XXI CENTURY (2003, 56 minutes, video)  Part 1 A real independent documentary film by Gabriele Zamparini & Lorenzo Meccoli featuring: Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Arno Mayer, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Scott Ritter, Susan Sarandon, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Nelson Mandela, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, The Nation, Ramsey Clark, Danny Glover, Angela Davis, Jessica Lange, Greg Palast, Ossie Davis, American Civil Liberties Union, Indymedia, Al Sharpton, Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte, Democracy Now!, Veterans for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, FAIR, Pacifica Foundation, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, MediaChannel, Not in Our Name, International ANSWER and many other voices of dissent. There are years when nothing happens and then days that change the course of History. From September 2002 to May 2003 we met with intellectuals, journalists, university professors, writers, historians, political analysts, international observers, human rights organizations, civil rights fighters, religious leaders, peace and anti war activists, asking questions to understand these years in which we are living and try to put together the many pieces of a complicated puzzle. The picture that comes alive is – to paraphrase James Baldwin – “longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it”. 2000 Presidential Elections and September 11, 2001. Afghanistan, Iraq, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The first Gulf War and the UN sanctions against Iraq. Saddam Hussein and the inspections. The axis of evil, the coalition of the willing and collateral damages. News, media, concentrations of power and censorship. The Middle East and the old and new colonialism. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, civil liberties and human rights. United Nations, International Criminal Court and the Old Europe. War, peace and patriotism. The anti war movement, oil, blood and the voices of dissent. Is it possible to find interconnecting links?

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