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sunday may 26 | 3:00 pm
COMMUNITIES AND THE LAND
We live in a rapidly changing world where the global economy's
focus on development, production and consumption drive daily life.
Casualties of progress, small communities are too often left out
of this harsh logic, left on their own to face the aftermath of
resource exploitation and development. The films in this program
explore people's relationship with the land and the values that
have brought them there. They look at the changing meaning of citizenship,
as ordinary people become warriors in their struggle for respect,
ownership of a way of life and the preservation of the places they
call home.
Community Sponsors: SPEC - Society Promoting
Environmental Conservation & ThinkCity
Land Claims
Director: Richard L. V. Larson (Canada, 2001, 2:18 min, Super 8
film)
A succinct and humorous comment on Native land
claim issues.
Something in the Air
Director: Sylvie Dauphinais (Canada, 2001, 25 min, video)
Most Canadians view P.E.I. as filmmaker Sylvie
Dauphinais once did a green paradise that provides an idyllic environment
for raising a child. But her peaceful nights were soon punctuated
by the uncontrollable coughing fits of her child. Dauphinais did
research to uncover alarming facts about the effects of pesticide
spraying on farms in P.E.I. and their neighbouring residents. Farmers
use the chemicals - at great risk to themselves - to stay competitive.
P.E.I. now claims the highest rate of children's asthma-related
hospitalisations in all of Canada. Something in the Air is a sobering
look at the environmental and human costs that go hand-in-hand with
industrialized farming.
Britannia Beach
Director: David Vaisbord (Canada, 2002, 56 min, video)
Britannia Beach, just up the road from Vancouver,
is a peaceful town with great community spirit, but it is plagued
by neglect, a legacy of pollution and the constant fear of being
engulfed by real estate development. In this video, residents of
Britannia Beach struggle to have their voices heard and their problems
addressed in the face of legal ambiguities. As they fight to find
solutions to their pressing concerns, there is a true sense that
"you can own the houses, but you can't own the community."
The director and Britannia Beach residents will
be in attendance.
D.L.
Running time: 84 minutes
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