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<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Next open screening will be on&nbsp;August 16th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>&nbsp;On the Road, Ladies and Gents. </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Have You ever been on the road?</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>&nbsp;Have You ever seen the road? </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Shoot Your experience. Express Your way.</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #33ff00″><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff”>&nbsp;Bring it to us and let us all go… under or through.</font></font></strong></p>
<p><strong>Just submit Your film and come play with us. Not a filmmaker? </strong></p>
<p><strong>Come and hang out with us anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp;M<span style=”FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: ‘Times New Roman’; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA”>eet up with local filmmakers, make a&nbsp;connections, let’s create together. </span>Enjoy the atmosphere, the gallery,&nbsp;the movies, the people, the refreshments. </strong></p>
<p><strong>LOVE Camilla &amp; Luk </strong></p>
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<p>Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it’s all good. </p>
<p>Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres. More Info: contact Camilla &amp; Luk -;415-368-7431 or ataopenscreening@atasite.org ATA’s open screening is the&nbsp;Biggest monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too.

$5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm &lt; </p>

The Program:

Resistir Para Existir : La Lucha Cucapa (2007)
( Resist to Exist: the Cucapa Struggle)

+ Excerpts from “The Battle of Mexcio City” (2001)
Rage Against The Machine’s concert DVD with xtras including interviews with Zach de la Rocha, Noam Chomsky and Subcommandante Marcos.
+ current clips from the indigenous struggles in Oaxaca, Atenco, etc.
+ Alicia Garcia , Sabin Portillo with slide show and special guests to discuss the upcoming Encuentro de Pueblos Indigenas de America  ( the Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas) which will take place October 11th-14th October, 2007 in the community of Vícam, Yaqui Territory, Municipality of Guaymas, State of Sonora, Mexico.

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“Resist To Exist” is a short doc, which illustrates how the Cucapa, an indigenous people from the community of El Mayor, Baja California, struggle to survive after the Colorado River disappeared and after the Mexican govt. has taken away their right to fish in the sea. A fishing community by tradition for the thousands of years, the Cucapa now face a life without water or food. However, their decision to continue as a people, heirs of an ancient culture, has led them to find various avenues to defend their rights. The Other Campaign and the Sixth Delegation of the EZLN, have committed themselves to this struggle in defense of the life, the culture and the nature of the Cucapa and Kiliwa people with the establishment of an encampment on indigenous, Baja Californian territory ( from feb. to april 2007). Produced by The Video Commisiion of la Otra en el Otro Lado Mexico 2007,17:56min.

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” The Battle of Mexico City” is the document of Rage Against The Machine at the height of their musical and political force just prior to their initial disbanding, and now a perfect prelude to their reunion show in SF on the Rock The Bells Tour with Wu Tang Clan on Aug.18th. Directed by Joe DeMaio.
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All proceeds benefit the EZLN and La Otra Campana.

More Information:
www.encuentroindigena.org
www.stopthegenocidecampaign.blogspot.com

The Cuban documentary Montaña de Luz-produced by ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos)-follows Cuban doctors working in collaboration with the communities throughout Latin America and Africa.The doctors work for no pay in areas of the world where there is either no medical care available or where the few local doctors are unable to meet the enomorus need, such as the AIDS epidemic in Namibia and flood victims in Haiti.

The Cuban doctors often work alongside medical interns returning to their home country from Cuba after graduating from medical school. In Cuba, free medical training is provided for any student-the only requirement being that the student return to their home country and use their skills working within the most opporessed communities. Beyond the material aid the Cubans give, they also provide an important example that another world is possible.  A world where care replaces the drive for profit. The film carries with it a deep message of internationalism, solidarity and humanism. 2005, 53min, Spanish w/ English subtitles, Directed by Guillermo Centeno