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Films Archive

2011 Films

Processed People

January 14, 2011
Film website

Guest Speakers

• Dr. Craig McDougall, MD - Internal Medicine Physician at Oregon Health Science University
• Dr. John McDougall, MD - Physician and Nutrition Expert - Via SKYPE

 

Dirt

February 11, 20101
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:

• James Cassidy - Soil Physics and Organic Agriculture Professor

 

The Nature of Cities

Thursday, March 11, 2010
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers

• Chris Jones - Professor and Program Manager Sustainable Cities Initiative, University of Oregon
• James Santana - Director of Sustainable Living Pringle Creek Community
• Courtney Knox - Project Manager Urban Development Department, City of Salem

 

Killing Us Softly 4

April 8, 2010
Trailer

Guets Speakers:

• Professor Beth Rietveld - Director of the Women’s Center Oregon State University & Center Against Rape & Domestic Violence
• Professor Amanda Littke - Social Movement and Activism, Women’s Studies - Oregon State University

 

Play Again

May 13, 2010
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:

• Meg Merrill - Producer for Play Again
• Dr. Katarina Cernozubov-Digman - Psychologist

 

 

2010 Films

Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives, The Environmental Footprint of War

January 14
Film website

Guest Speakers
• Peter Bergel, Executive Director of Oregon Peaceworks
• Dan Shea, Executive Director of Education without Borders | Courage to Resist | Veterans for Peace
• Kelly Campbell, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility

 

A Sea Change

February 11, 2010
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Burke Hales, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
• George Waldbusser, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University.

 

Manufactured Landscapes

Thursday, March 11, 2010
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers
• Jennifer Baichwa, filmmker.

 

Secrecy

April 8, 2010
Film Web Site

Guets Speakers:
• Steven Wa, Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon

 

Good Food

May 13, 2010
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Karl Kupers, Food Alliance certified grain grower; Center for Sustaining and Natural Resources Advisory Committee; The Food Alliance; Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association.
• Steven Perkins, American Baker trained with a strong emphasis on whole grain breads.

 

Capitalism, A Love Story

Saturday, May 22 2010
Film Web Site

Filmmaker Michael Moore takes on capitalism's roots, the floundering U.S. economy, and 2008's global financial meltdown and subsequent bank bailout in this rousing documentary. Combining stories about those who suffer most from Corporate America's greed and insatiable thirst for profits and the people most responsible for myriad crises, Moore embarks on another shocking fact-finding rampage.

Beyond Motor City

September 9, 2010
Trailer  

Guest Speakers:

• Gerald Fox - Transportation Engineer for Portland’s TriMet
• Allan Pollock - General Manager for Salem Area Mass Transit District
• Russ Beaton - Economist & consultant to ODOT, Dept. of Energy and Dept. of Land Conservation

 

Soldiers of Peace

October 14, 2010
Film web site

Guest Speakers

• David Hartsough - Ex. Dir. of Peaceworkers based in San Francisco, CA. & Co-Founder of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. He is a Quaker, deeply committed to nonviolence and has been working actively for nonviolent social change and peaceful resolution of conflicts since he met Martin Luther King in 1956.

 

Tapped

November 11, 2010
Film web site

Guest Speakers

• Julia DeGraw - Julia is the Northwest Organizer for Food & Water Watch. She works with local groups to prevent the privatization of public water municipalities and to stop companies from bottling Northwest water.

 

Papers

December 9, 2010
Film website

Guest Speakers

• Rebecca Shine - Producer of “Papers”, and an advocate for social and economic justice
• Francisco Lopez - Executive Director of CAUSA, Oregon’s Immigrant Rights Coalition

 

2009 Films

The World According to Monsanto

January 8, 2009
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Lisa Weasel, Associate Professor of Biology, Portland State Univ.
• David Gould, Director of Technical Services for the Global ID Group

 

I.O.U.S.A

February 12, 2009
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Janet Ryan, Western Regional Director for the The Concord Coalition
• Marks Thoma, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oregon | Blog

 

Addicted to Plastic

March 12, 2009
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Angelique White, Oregon State University
• David Allaway, Oregon DEQ

 

Contaminated Without Consent

April 9, 2009
Film web site

Guest Speakers:
• Sue Koger, Willamette University
• ReneeHackenmiller-Paradis, Oregon Environmental Council
Salem Citizens for Alternatives to Pesticides Web site

 

The Accidental Advocate

May 14 , 2009
Film web site

Guest Speakers:
• Dr. Kevin Ahern, Oregon State University | Biochemistry music CDs Web site
• Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Oregon Stem Cell Center

 

The Exonerated

September 10, 2009
Trailer  

Guest Speakers:
• Ron Steiner, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation
Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Murder Victims' Families for Reconcilliation

• Curtis Edward McCarty, exonerated in 2007 after serving 21 years | The Innocence Project

 

Crossroads On The Columbia:
Oregon Confronts America’s Energy Future

October 8, 2009
Film web site

Guest Speakers
• Bill Bradbury, former Oregon Secretary of State
• Olivia Schmidt, community organizer, Anti-LNG Coalition
• Dan Serres, Columbia Riverkeeper

 

Health, Money and Fear

November 12 , 2009
Film web site

Guest Speakers
• Dr. Paul Hochfeld
• Dr.Mike Huntingto

 

Garbage, The Revolution Starts At Home

December 10
Film website

Guest Speakers
• Bailey Paine, Marion County Recycling Coordinator
• Amy Korst, GreenGarbage Project

 

 

2008 Films

Big Bucks, Big Pharma

January 10, 2008
Film Web Site

Guest Speaker:
• Maribeth Healey, Executive Director of Oregonians for Health Security

 

Thirst

February 14, 2008
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Professor Aaron Wolf Ph.D., Geoscience Dept, Oregon State University
• Peter Fernandez, Director of Public Works, Salem

 

Independent Intervention

March 13, 2008
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Alan Bushong, Director of Capitol Community Television
• Nathaniel Cordova, Professor of Rhetoric, Willamette University
• Courtney Dillard, Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies

 

Subdivided

April 10, 2008
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Professor Emily Drew, Sociology Dept., Willamette University
• Professor Melissa Michaux, Politics, Willamette University
• Trenton Jacobs, Urban Planner with Nathan Good Architect Firm

 

Uncounted, The New Math of American Elections

May 8, 2008
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• David Earnhardt, Producer/director
• Bill Burgess, Marion County Clerk

 

No films in June, July and August.

 

Transforming Energy

September 11, 2008
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Chuck Davis, Producer/writer/director, Throughline Productions
• Christopher Dymind, Oregon Department of Energy
• Dr. Carel DeWinkel, Oregon Department of Energy

>> Go to the Transforming Energy web site

 

Washington, You’re Fired

October 9, 2008
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• David Fidanque, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon

 

Consuming Kids

November 13, 2008
Film web site

Guest Speakers:
• Ginger Carlson, author
• Carl Bybee, founder of the Oregon Media Literacy Project
   Teaching Apathy, Teaching Citizenship
   Media and Social Class: Citizenship v. Consumerism
   Schools, Media and Health

 

The Story of Stuff

November 13, 2008
Film web site

 

 

 

Food Matters

December 11, 2008
Film web site

Guest Speakers:
• Nancy Ludwig, nutrition instructor
• Suzanne Dixon, author, speaker

2007 Films

War Made Easy

September 13, 2007
Film Web Site

Guest Speaker:
• Peter Bergel, Director of Oregon Peaceworks

End of Suburbia

October 11, 2007
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Oregon State Representative Brian Clem
• Sid Friedman, 1,000 Friends of Oregon
• Matthew Arnold, Urban Planner with SERA Architect Firm

Future of Food

November 8, 2007
Film Web Site

Guest Speakers:
• Rick North, Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Chris Schreiner, Oregon Tilth

 

Maxed Out

December 13, 2007
Film Web Site

Guest Speaker:
• Angela Martin, Director of Economic Fairness Coalition of Our Oregon

 

No films in June, July and August