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This special screening will contribute 100% of earnings to the 2008 AIDS Lifecycle Ride beneficiaries. During this seven-day endurance event, 2500 dedicated individuals will ride over 500 miles between San Francisco and LA to raise money and awareness for all those who have been affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

A great, uplifting, bike-centric film, funky beats before and after plus a special surprise guest speaker will make this a worthwhile evening for the bicycle enthusiast, cineaste or anyone looking to earn a few additional good karma points while having a great time!

Event admission is on a sliding scale but there will be a very special bonus door prize to those who donate

$10 or more.

AIDS/LifeCycle …

…. will take place June 1-7, 2008, as cyclists and volunteers will travel 545 miles through beautiful California from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

… is the official cycling event of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.

… is about HIV/AIDS and raising money to help the beneficiaries continue to provide the critical services and education needed to meet the growing needs of our community.

… increases awareness and knowledge about HIV/AIDS among participants, their donors and the general public.

… addresses the widespread misperception that HIV and AIDS are no longer a problem — in fact more people are living with HIV & AIDS today than ever before, which means a much greater need for services.

One of many fields along the route…. provides a reminder that the rate of HIV infection is increasing, particularly in communities of color and in individuals under the age of 25. In California alone there are 60,000 people living with AIDS, and another estimated 91,000 living with HIV, many unaware of their infection.

As the number of people living with HIV increases, so does the need for the services provided by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, the two agencies producing the ride.

AIDS/LifeCycle is the only AIDS fundraising bicycle event in California organized by the non-profit agencies that will benefit from the money raised by its participants. Our sole concern is providing critical services to people living with HIV and AIDS. Your support and commitment is pivotal to our success. The monies you contribute will allow us to provide these critical services.

Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight to establish an important legal and moral precedent holding an American retailer liable for the labor conditions under which its products are manufactured. But more than this, Made in LA provides an insider’s view into both the struggles of recent immigrants and into the organizing process itself: the enthusiasm, discouragement, hard-won victories and ultimate self-empowerment.

As director Carracedo concludes: “These women’s struggle mattered not just for its own sake but because it served as a catalyst for each of them, in her own way, to stand up and say: ‘I exist. I have rights.’” 70 min., 2007, Spanish and English with bilingual subtitles.

Since 2003 Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy (desperate optimists) have been working on a unique community film project. Civic Life is a series of seven short films each shot in a day on 35mm and making daring use of the long-take. Working with 35mm equipment, complex film rigs and locations, not to mention hundreds of extras and a propensity for working with both children and animals, they have generated a body of work that is both theatrical and deeply cinematic, experimental and highly accessible.

Who Killed Brown Owl, UK | 2004 | 9:23

A sunny day by the riverbank – the perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence. Filmed over the course of one afternoon, Who Killed Brown Owl features a volunteer cast of almost 100 residents of the London Borough of Enfield.

Who Killed Brown Owl won the Best British Short Film award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004.

Moore Street, Ireland IRL | 2004 | 5:45

A woman walks through a deserted Dublin market street at night. A quietly powerful meditation on what it means to belong to a new city and a new country.

Moore Street was Part of Ireland’s entry into the 26th Sào Paulo Bienal.

Revolution, UK | 2005 | 10:16

A technically astonishing circular shot depicts how a community fete descends into chaos and mayhem, and there’s a gorilla in the library. Revolution involved 91 people from Lambeth in the shooting and was filmed on location at the YMCA on Stockwell Road during a sunny afternoon in September 2004.

Twilight, UK | 2005 | 5:22

On a boat on the Tyne during the time that cinematographers call ‘The Magic Hour’, a group of friends listen to a revelation. Twilight is an intimate exploration of the ebb and flow of life involving 5 residents from Tyneside. The film was shot on the 18 May 2005.

Town Hall, UK | 2005 | 10:35

It’s open day at the town hall, and we go on a dazzling visual journey through its mazelike corridors and rooms in a celebration of community expression. Town Hall was filmed on the 29th May 2005 in the stunning surrounds of the West Bromwich Town Hall with the involvement of over 200 local residents.

Now we are grown up, UK | 2005 | 11:40

Commissioned to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Cornerhouse Arts Centre in Manchester, Now we are grown up was filmed in the Grand Hall of Manchester Town Hall in October 2005 with a cast of 14 performers all 20 years of age. Carefully positioned in a circle the young people participate in a strangely unorthodox therapy session confiding their fears and hopes in the face of their futures.

Leisure Centre, IRL/UK | 2006 | 17:42

A young man returns to his workplace after a life-changing event. Walking from one end of the leisure centre to the other becomes a compelling emotional journey with a stunnin finale.