Just ahead of the culmination of the Paris COP21 conference on 11 Dec 2015Manchester Film Co-op, in partnership with Manchester A Certain Future, Global Justice Now & Manchester Friends of the Earth, are delighted to announce our screening of This Changes Everything, the 2015 documentary conveying Naomi Klein’s positive visionary call to climate action.
The post-screening discussion will be led by MFC’s three screening partners. It is one of a series of MACF events that have been happening in Manchester since September 2015, in the run up to and in parallel with the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Paris (November 30 to December 11).
Date: Monday the 7th of December.
Doors: Doors at 19:00, screening to begin at 19:30.
Manchester Film Co-op invites you to join us for a screening of Lee Salter’s new documentary film, The Fourth Estate.
In the wake of the Leveson report the media’s focus has quickly diverted from a brief period of self-examination to business as usual. This opportunity for serious consideration of the true, entrenched causes and effects of the UK’s inadequate media must not go unexplored, and the recent press scandals must not be framed in terms of the “bad apple” soundbites we’re so often fed.
Examining the people and practices of the media industries, The Fourth Estate illuminates not only specific incidences of corruption by press groups, but how the wider business as a whole, including the film and entertainment industries, has a huge amount to answer for in the state of the political economy of the west. There’s no business like show business…
Manchester Film Co-op invites you to join us for a double bill on the privatisation of water. Each film focuses on a strong community, resisting governments and multi-nationals to keep the most precious life-giving element, water, free to all.
The documentary Weaving Resistance looks at life in a Munduruku village, where traditional skills are practised and children are brought up with remarkable freedom. The video documents the growth of resistance against the series of hydroelectric dams, including among the women, who have a crucial role in this struggle, and that are now also emerging as guerreiras (woman warriors) in the light against these plans.
Our second film is the 2010 drama Even the Rain, in which a Spanish film crew helmed by idealistic director Sebastian (Gael García Bernal) and his cynical producer Costa (Luis Tosar) come to Bolivia to make a revisionist epic about the conquest of Latin America – on the cheap. Carlos Aduviri is dynamic as “Daniel,” a local cast as a 16th century native in the film within a film.
While the shoot progresses in and around the city of Cochabamba, civil and political unrest simmer, as the entire water supply of the city is privatized and sold to a British/American multinational. Violence increases daily until the entire city explodes in the now infamous Bolivian Water War – a war which actually took place in April 2000. 500 years after Columbus, sticks and stones once again confront the high-tech weaponry of a modern army. David against Goliath. Only this time the fight is not over gold, but the simplest of life-giving elements – water.
Just ahead of the culmination of the Paris COP21 conference on 11 Dec 2015 Manchester Film Co-op, in partnership with Manchester A Certain Future, Global Justice Now & Manchester Friends of the Earth, are delighted to announce our screening of This Changes Everything, the 2015 documentary conveying Naomi Klein’s positive visionary call to climate action.
