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  • Letters From the Other Side

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    LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE is a a much-needed examination of the collateral damage of immigration. The film interweaves video letters carried across the U.S.-Mexico border by the film’s director with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico. LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE provides the human context that has been missing from the immigration debate and offers a fresh perspective, painting a complex portrait of families torn apart by economics, communities dying at the hands of globalization, and governments unwilling to do anything about it. 2006, 73min.

  • Anxiety and Apple Seeds—

    The debut San Francisco screening of director Claude Cardenas’ new film titled “B.” starring Mary Van Note. Live performances by Foxtails Brigade and others TBA.

    In this Fantasy, Horror, Two girls, bored by everyday life seek an escape through colorful daydreams. Until one day when one of them swallows an apple seed, which sends them on a journey to find someone who can remove it before it grows into a baby tree inside her belly, eventually killing her. Director: Claude Cardenas, Screenwriter: Jessica Sinema, Producer: Brian Melesky, Studio: No Dice Films
    Starring: Paisley Fried, Janet Sanchez, Mary Van Note, Lynnae Yvette, Sharona Ovrahim, Kristen Takako, Steve Eddy, and Krystle Ann Poovey

  • Through the Eyes of Children

    Adapting to Scarcity (www.adaptingtoscarcity.org) and IMDEC (www.imdec.net) invite you to come look at the world through the eyes of children from the neighborhood of La Huizachera located outside of Guadalajara, MX. These children live along a polluted canal that carries untreated human and industrial waste away from Guadalajara. The state of the canal deeply affects the health of the community. IMDEC, the Mexican Institute for Community Development, has been working weekly with the children in the community to educate them about the environment. They gave digital point-and-shoot cameras to the kids, taught them to use them and have been helping them capture their perspectives and their neighborhood. The phenomenal and moving photos were shot, selected and titled by the children.

    The exhibit has traveled throughout Mexico and is accompanied by short videos of the project and the children.

    Adapting to Scarcity is a community water rights and media empowerment project designed to support Guadalajara’s citizen movements for environmental justice and access to clean water, and to enhance its impact, visibility and synergy with other water rights movements in the world.

    Learn more about what we are up to at www.adaptingtoscarcity.org Or email us at: sarah@adaptingtoscarcity.org.