Join us for a month of film screenings and political discussion at the
2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy! All screenings are free and open
to the public and will be taking place at the 2110mCentre (2110 Mackay Street, Guy Metro) at 7:30PM. * Childcare available with 48hrs notice* Wheelchair accessible location*Popcorn will be served*
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July 28th — Zero Degrees of Separation
August 4th–HIghway of Tears & Forgotten Sisters & Unknown
August 11th — Myths for Profit
August 18th – Jane: An Abortion Service
August 25th – Born in Flames
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Wednesday July 28th@7:30PM
Zero Degrees of Separation
Elle Flander’s feature length film documents queer struggles against Israeli
occupation and apartheid by examining the complex relationship between
two Palestinian-Israeli lovers and two nations, less than 3 kilometres apart.
(Elle Flanders/2005/Canada/89 min)
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Wednesday August 4th@7:30PM
Highway of Tears
Families all along Canada’s Highway 16 – a 425-mile stretch of road that cuts
through pine forests, rivers and remote Indigenous reserves in British Columbia
– are searching for their missing loved ones. Amnesty International estimates
that 32 Indigenous women have gone missing in the last three decades along
what has been dubbed the “Highway of Tears”. (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy/2006/21mins)
Forgotten Sisters
Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander, last seen September 6, are two of more
than 582 missing or murdered aboriginal women “Canada”. This short documentary
looks at the struggle of one woman, Maisy’s mom, to bring attention to the
disappearances. (Canada/8mins)
+ Wapikoni Mobile’s “Unknown”
Introduction and discussion with Missing Justice
(Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women)
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Wednesday August 11th@7:30PM
Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role in Industries of War and Peace
Canada the global good guy? Lets examine that claim. Essential intro to geopolitics and profits, from NATO to Afghanistan via Kosovo. ‘Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role In Industries of War and Peace’ takes a different approach to peacekeeping, the military and development, raising all sorts of questions along the way. An entertaining, well argued documentary.(Amy Miller/2009/Canada/58 min)
Q&A with filmmaker, Amy Miller.Amy Miller is a Montréal based media maker committed to social justice. With a background in popular education she believes that furthering critical analysis can lead to action.
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Wednesday August 18th@7:30PM
Jane: An Abortion Service
This documentary chronicles a little-known chapter in feminist history with the story of “Jane”, a Chicago based feminist collective, which consisted of 120 women who counseled, assisted in and ultimately performed nearly 12,000 safe, anonymous and illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973. “Jane: An Abortion Service” is a meditation on the process of empowerment.(Kate Kirtz/1996/USA/ 60 min)
Introduction and presentation from the Reproductive Autonomy Campaign
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Wednesday August 25th@7:30PM
Born in Flames
Set in the USA ten years after the Second American Revolution, Born in Flames is a sci-fi comic fantasy of female rebellion that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States Socialist Democracy.When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman’s army, is mysteriously killed, a seemingly impossible coalition of women -across all lines of race, class and sexual preference – emerges to blow the System apart.