Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • Honduras Resist!

    Presented by Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition

    On June 28th, 2009 a Military Coup took place in Honduras. On June 28th, 2010, Monday, BALASC will present in three acts a year of resistance against the Coup in Honduras:

    First Act: “The Coup and the Popular Resistance”
    Video 1: En Honduras no pasa nada, tudo tranquilo (Nothing is happening in Honduras, everything is ok).
    Video 2: 100 days of popular resistance against the coup.

    Second Act: “Exposing a fraudulent election”
    Video 3: Report of the violence during elections. (November 30th, 2009)
    Video 4: Exposing the fraud of the elections.

    Third Act: “A false democracy and the US complicity”
    Video 5: Report about the human rights violations after Porfirio Lobo (president ‘elected’) assumed office.(2010)
    Video 6: Report about Hillary Clinton recent tour on Latin America – with updates about countries in the region position on recongnizing or not the new government in Honduras.

  • The Female Face of AIDS: Crisis in Malawi


    Presented by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of UNIFEM

    Unifem - malawi

    The Female Face of Aids: Crisis in Malawi shines a light on the stigma and discrimination suffered by women living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi. The film follows the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School during the final weeks of a year-long study on how HIV/AIDS impacts Malawian women who comprise 58% of those infected there. Eight students and four faculty members traveled to Malawi in 2007 interviewing a broad spectrum of people from the country to understand how these conditions persist.

    The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the US National Committee for UNIFEM (UNIFEM/USNC) was launched in June of 2009. UNIFEM is the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and it works on women’s rights and development issues across the globe. We are committed to expanding support and raising funds within the United States for UNIFEM. Through our efforts we hope to encourage ourselves and others to become involved in advancing women’s rights around the world.

    About the Film Series: This monthly film series will look at women’s rights and development issues. Each month, a film that touches on one of the four themes of UNIFEM (The United Nations Development Fund for Women) will be selected. These four themes are: – enhancing women’s economic security and rights, – ending violence against women, – reducing the prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women and girls, and – advancing gender justice in democratic governance in stable and fragile states. After each film, a discussion will be held that focuses on the issue being highlighted and what local Bay Area organizations are doing to address that issue.

  • Diary of a merchant seaman

    A heartfelt documentation of the nightlife in one of San Francisco’s most beloved dive bars: Expansion Bar. With footage collected over the last ten years of the bar’s existence and including interviews with Dick Wood, John Anderson and Gary Milliman, with stories from Paul Hodge , dudley, Gary Davies and others. Film maker Martin Reade gives viewers the chance to be a part of this singular establishment.