It's 1945, World War II. The Place, Okinawa. The Scene, an impregnable 400-foot high cliff-AKA Hacksaw Ridge. The Engagement, a battle so fierce the odds of survival were 1 in 10. The Act, Medic Pfc. Desmond T. Doss braved intense enemy fire to rescue 75 wounded GI's over the precipice. The Story, Infantrymen who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon-now owed their lives to him. Director Terry Benedict tells Desmond's incredible story through the eyes of the men who witnessed this humble man's heroic acts. Winning the respect of his fellow soldiers, they recommended him for the highest honor America can bestow on one of her sons-The Medal of Honor.

Written by Anonymous

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-- Winner, 2005 Santa Cruz Film Festival Audience Award, Best Documentary

-- Winner, 2005 Long Island  International Film Expo, Festival Prize, Best Documentary

 

In coordination with Nebraskans for Peace, please join us in welcoming Yukiko Shimono for a special presentation.

Yukiko Shimono is from Hiroshima city, Japan and a volunteer member of the Never Again Campaign (NAC). NAC is a volunteer grassroots people-to-people program of Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA.

You can learn more about Ms. Shimono, her life, and her mission in this booklet

Ms. Shimono is currently touring the country to introduce people to Japanese culture, and to spread her message of remembrance and hope that the world will never forget the continuing effects of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the Hibakusha, or survivors of the atomic destruction.

The presentation will begin with a short video of one Hibakusha testimony from the Hiroshima Witness video (approx. 8 min)

A short film, "A Mother's Prayer," will then be shown (approx. 30 min), after which Ms. Shimono will make some comments, followed by an informal discussion.

So far, since 1985, NAC has had 52 volunteers and has done 11,565 presentations for 363,480 people in 38 U.S states and 11 countries.

For details see: http://www.berkshirecc.edu/neveragaincampaign

 

Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers' surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with prostitutes, that she strips.

-- Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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-- Winner, 2000 San Francisco Int'l Film Festival Golden Spire Award

-- Winner, 2000 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Best Lesbian Feature

 

There is a revolution going on in science. A genuine paradigm shift. While mainstream science remains materialist, a substantial number of scientists are supporting and developing a paradigm based on the primacy of consciousness. Amit Goswami, Ph.D., a pioneer of this revolutionary new perspective within science, shares with us his vision of the unlimited potential of consciousness as the ground of all being, and how this revelation can actually help us to live better. The Quantum Activist tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality, with a force and scope not felt since Einstein. This film bridges the gap between God and Science. The work of Goswami, with stunning precision and without straying from the rigors of quantum mechanics, reveals the overarching unity inherent in the worlds major religions and mystical traditions. Meet the man behind the message as Dr. Goswami tells how he moved away from the religious teachings of his childhood, to seek his path in nuclear and theoretical quantum physics, and how he has come full circle, through quantum insight, back to the very religious axioms offered as a youth.

---Written by Ted Golder

 

 Sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.

      Vertov's feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters," they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film.
This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, stop motion animations and a self-reflexive style (at one point it features a split screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).

--from Wikipedia