A free screening of a documentary about sexism and gender bias in our media and culture. To be followed by a discussion led by Michele Landsberg, writer, social activist, feminist, and author of Writing the Revolution.

GENERATION M : Misogyny in Media & Culture

Cinema Politica was started as a small screening series in 2001 at Langara College in British Colombia. Founder Ezra Winton teamed up with Svetla Turnin in 2003 at Concordia University in Montreal and revamped the screenings into a media arts non-profit network. Now, Cinema Politica has more than 100 locals across Canada and abroad, hosting grassroots screenings of documentaries and politically conscious Canadian films through donation. They are now the largest volunteer run campus and community screening network in the world.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal, America's best-known class war prisoner, has been on death row for 28 years for a murder he did not commit. A former Black Panther and renowned author whose writings have appeared in publications ranging from the Yale Law Review to street papers for the homeless, Mumia is hailed as "the voice of the voiceless." Justice on Trial exposes many aspects of his legal lynching - judicial bias, prosecutorial misconduct, racism, police corruption and evidence tampering. This hard-hitting indictment of the U.S. "justice" system was produced on a shoe-string budget, and money collected at the door will go directly to "Big Noise" to help defray the cost of creating this powerful film.

Canadian Premiere: Living Downstream

A documentary film by Chanda Chevannes based on the acclaimed book by Sandra Steingraber.

A Co-Presentation of:

Planet in Focus and Women's Healthy Environments Network

Q&A session with Sandra Steingraber and Chanda Chevannes to follow the screening.

A book signing of the newly released second edition of Living Downstream will be hosted by Book City.*

About the documentary "Ghosts":

This documentary was awarded the "Prix du Public" at the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival 2010.  This will be the first showing in Ottawa.

Three Canadian men; Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin were detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and, in Ahmad El Maati's case, Egypt. Upon their release, they return to Canada and try to find answers to why they were detained in the first place.

The camera team follows the lives and cases of the men for one-and-a-half years as they, with the help of lawyers, organizations and regular Canadians, do what they can to understand the reasons behind their horrific experiences.

Join us for an evening of discussion and debate on a rich cross section of short films including excerpts from Media Education Foundation films Tough Guise and Killing Us Softly 3, screenings of Runaway, Neighbours, and Very Nice, Very Nice from the National Film Board, and of experimental films Dangling Participle and New Improved Institutional Quality, selected by Michael Zyrd, associate professor of Film at York University.

The world rarely sees the challenges and dangers faced by native reporters reporting from conflict regions such as Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Pakistan and Uganda.

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), Sheridan College and Willing Mind Productions present "So Far From Home" an OMNI Television documentary film that offers a unique window in to the world of five journalists who did report from these dangerous places.

From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international
medical students in Cuba - now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA.

There will be a speaker from Haiti Solidarity B.C. followed by a discussion and reflections on the film.

This is a pay what you can event.

All funds raised will go to the Canada Haiti Medical Project.

The Canada Haiti Action Network and the Rotary World Help Network
have founded an aid project to ship vitally-needed medical supplies to
Haiti.