[CounterCorp] 2008 Anti-Corporate Film Festival program

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Dear CounterCorp supporter,

	Well, it's that time again: time for the annual CounterCorp  
International Anti-Corporate Film Festival!

	This year's Festival, our third consecutive year, takes place at a  
new venue, but picks up where last year’s Festival left off, with a  
program of films that explore the already unprecedented and still  
growing influence that corporations have on our daily lives, local  
communities, the global environment, and human culture and psychology.

       The 2008 CounterCorp Festival features three nights of  
documentary and "narrative" (fictional) features, short films, panel  
discussions, audience Q&As, and post-screening events. The Festival  
program is listed below, and on the CounterCorp website (www.countercorp.org 
).

	We will be adding details such as the exact times of the films, the  
names and affiliations of our panel speakers, trailers for most of the  
films, and links to buy tickets online to the website in the coming  
week.

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Festival and other CounterCorp events and programs automatically  
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       Here's the film program for this year’s Anti-Corporate Film  
Festival. Please note that the first "block" each day begins at  
7:00pm, and the second block begins at 9:00pm (the actual film times  
will be listed on the website):

Wednesday, Oct. 15 -- Theme: Food

  "Growing Awareness" -- Critiques the corporate-controlled and  
government-subsidized global food system, and examines a more  
sustainable alternative: small, organic, local farms.

  Opening night film: "The World According to Monsanto" -- Documents  
the devastating cost of Monsanto’s efforts to genetically engineer and  
patent the world’s crops.

Thursday, Oct. 16: Theme: Oil

  "The True Cost of Oil" -- A program of short films dealing with the  
costs in human lives, suffering, and systemic poverty from Western  
corporate oil exploitation in Africa and beyond.

  "Justicia Now!" (Justice Now) -- Documents ChevronTexaco’s toxic  
legacy in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, and the courageous group of  
people called Los Afectados ("The Affected Ones") who seek justice for  
the ensuing cancer, sickness, and death in the largest environmental  
class action lawsuit in history.

Friday, Oct. 16: Theme: Corporate Culture

  "The Big Sellout" -- Reveals the reality of the worldwide  
privatization of basic public services such as water, electricity,  
transportation, and healthcare in South America, Asia, Africa, and  
also in Europe and the United States.

  Closing Night Film: "Visioneers" (pending confirmation) -- A black  
comedy about a man struggling to maintain his sanity amidst the absurd  
conformity and blissful comfort of the largest and most profitable  
corporation in the history of mankind: the Jeffers Corporation.  
There's only one drawback: Unhappy Jeffers employees seem to be  
spontaneously exploding ... Starring rising comic star Zach  
Galifianakis (Comedy Central, "Into the Wild", and many other TV shows  
and films).

	We hope you can make it to at least one of the films at this year's  
Festival, but even if you can't (or in the meantime) we need your help  
to get the word out and help promote the CounterCorp Festival and --  
more importantly -- the issues and perspectives the Festival is all  
about.

	So please help us spread the word by telling your friends, family,  
colleagues, acquaintances, and people you don't know (but might like  
to) about, as well as posting information about it on e-mail lists,  
blogs, and social networking websites you visit.

	Without a huge outreach budget, CounterCorp depends on YOU to be our  
"vectors of change" ...

	Thanks as always for all your help and support -- we couldn't do ANY  
of this without you!

See you at the Festival,

John Wilner
Director


	CounterCorp: Putting An End to Business as Usual
	3rd Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, Oct. 15-17
		Brava Theater Center, San Francisco
				www.countercorp.org


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