Category Archives: Documentaries

New Documentary: Pay To Play

13 Saturday Sep 2014

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PAY 2 PLAY trailer from John Wellington Ennis on Vimeo.

Showing in Los Angeles September 12-18
Screening at the LAEMMLE NORTH HOLLYWOOD THEATRE (NoHo7)
Friday September 12th-18th.
Located at: 5240 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601
310-478-3836
TICKETS: http://www.laemmle.com/films/38421

Showing in Ojai September 26
Friday, September 26, 2014, 07:30pm – 09:30pm • $10
Film and Discussion
More information: http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2014/09/26/769/-/pay2play-film-discussion-ojai

PAY 2 PLAY follows filmmaker John Ennis’ quest to find a way out from under the Pay 2 Play System, where Politicians reward their donors with even larger sums from the public treasury — through contracts, tax cuts, and deregulation. Along the way, he journeys through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of the game Monopoly, and explores the underworld of L.A. street art on a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make. PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy’s High Stakes is the layman’s guidebook to taking back our democracy.

PAY-2-PLAY-Poster

It is a very important time in the context of our movement earlier this week David Cobb, also of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team debated Jams Bopp who argued the Citizens United case before the Supreme Court, today the senate failed to pass SJR 19 and Move to Amend’s Pledge to Amend 2014 campaign is in full swing seeking to get elected officials on record as to whether they support the “We The People” amendment.  READ MORE

Film Screening: Battlefields to Farmfields

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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Oxnard Public Library
http://oxnardlibrary.net
Documentary: “Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields” 

Saturday, September 20
2:30–3:30 pm

Main Library Meeting Room B
http://oxnardlibrary.net/page.aspx?id=13&md=0&d=20

Film producer Dulanie Ellis will present the screening of her documentary celebrating the continuing service veterans give to their community as some transition into agricultural careers as sustainable farmers, ranchers, and artisan food producers.
http://www.groundoperations.net/

Documentary: Do The Math — Friday, August 23

18 Sunday Aug 2013

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Do The Math chronicles climate crusader Bill McKibben as he works with a rising global movement in a David-vs-Goliath fight to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis.

The fossil fuel industry is killing us. They have five times the amount of coal, gas and oil that is safe to burn, and they are planning on burning it all. Left to their own devices, they’ll push us past the brink of cataclysmic disaster – life as we know it will be irrevocably altered forever. Unless we rise up and fight back.

This growing groundswell of climate activists is going after the fossil fuel industry directly, energizing a movement like the ones that overturned the great immoral institutions of the past century, such as Apartheid in South Africa.

Do the Math follows people who are putting their bodies on the line the Keystone XL Pipeline and leading universities and institutions to divest in the corporate polluters hellbent on burning fossil fuels no matter the cost.

Speakers and discussion follow this screening by Ventura350 with the Ventura Film Society.

WATCH TRAILER: http://act.350.org/signup/math-movie/

Ventura City Councilman Brian Brennan will speak about how to transition Ventura County to a low carbon economy and culture.

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/299964020149514/

Jim Waterhouse, Climate Reality Project and cofounder of the Pasadena Foothill Citizens Climate Lobby will bring passion and drama to a story of creating the political will for a stable climate and working together to express our personal and political power.

Meet representatives of seven climate change organizations before and after the program to learn how to get involved. Seating is limited and advance ticket purchase is advisable at http://www.venturafilmsociety.com/tickets.html.Donation amounts are $10 for adults, $7 for students and seniors, and $5 for students.

SPONSORS:   Ventura 350 and the Ventura Film Society

COSPONSORS: Citizens Climate Lobby, Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions,Kids vs Global Warming, Organizing for Action,  Sierra Club, Unitarian-Universalist Church of Ventura Social Action Committee,  VCCOOL , Ventura Pachamama Community 

Friday, August 23, 7:15 – 9:15 PM.
420 E Santa Clara Street, Downtown Ventura, 93001

For ticket information, call  (805) 638-2299. For information aboutVentura350, contact Jan Dietrick (805) 643-3640.