Introducing a new group to Newcastle University and the wider community – Cinema Politica Newcastle will be bringing you an engaging series of evening documentaries covering a host of socio-political and environmental issues.
Cinema Politica is a grassroots media arts organization committed to disseminating cinema that explores stories of under-represented issues and oppressed people of the world. The Newcastle branch was started by Newcastle University students and staff and awarded and initial start up grant by ncl+. The films and events will be screened on campus, in our very own Culture Lab, who very kindly donated their facilities in support of our project. There will be talks by experts on the topic following each film facilitating debate and providing both an informative and stimulating evening.
As members, we all enjoyed the public lectures put on by the University and other local community groups so we decided that we wanted to organize our own film nights with the focus on independent documentaries coupled with participative discussion. After some internet browsing Cinema Politica was discovered and we realised that it was the perfect platform to present these events. We think this venture is particularly significant as very few of these films have been publicly screened in the UK hence creating a very exciting opportunity.
At our first event we will be showing the fantastic yet tragic documentary H2Oil, a film about the Canadian Tar Sands. “H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion.” See the trailer here http://www.h2oildoc.com.
When: 24/02/2011 18.30-20.30
Where: Culture Lab, King’s Walk, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU.
Our events are free to all.
Next month we will be showing a documentary about water wars in order to mark world water day.
For more information on the group, see www.cinemapolitica.org/newcastle and click join to receive further news. Otherwise send an email to sympa@ncl.ac.uk with the text “SUBSCRIBE cinemapolitica [your name]” or join us on Facebook!