500 Years Later

WHAT: Documentary screening of 500 Years Later
WHEN: MONDAY, February 12 at 7:30pm
WHERE: Room H-110, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve
COST: Free or by donation
INFO: www.cinemapolitica.org

This award-winning doc is being co-presented by the African Students Association Concordia.

UK/USA / 2006 / 90 min

What makes 500 Years Later different to other films about slavery?

500 Years Later represents a fresh, unapologetic African narrative on the crisis and legacy of enslavement. The film not only embodies the story of the African Diaspora, but also carries the culture of our people in its subtext. The single most compelling factor in the making of 500 Years Later was an overwhelming desire to produce a single body of work that summoned up, chronicled and addressed the critical issues facing Africans globally — one which spoke in positive reaffirming terms to African people in the Diaspora.

This film also serves as a reference point for our generation and future generations. The techniques employed did not rely on emotions to build the case from an African standpoint. We dealt with facts over emotion and truth over everything. So the film also re-examines our own failings — I believe this makes it unprecedented.
(above description taken from the Socialist Worker Online)

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Cinema Politica is an überculture project, and is co-sponsored by CitizenShift (http://citizen.nfb.ca) and Concordia University Television (CUTV) (http://cutv.concordia.ca). Additional support comes from our friends at the Concordia Co-op Bookstore (http://www.co-opbookstore.ca) and the Documentary Organization of Canada, Quebec Chapter.

For more information on all the films and various locals, please visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org. For the FALL 2006 SCHEDULE, visit the Co-op Bookstore at 2150 Bishop. If you would like to volunteer with the Concordia Local of Cinema Politica, please contact Ethan Cox (ethan@uberculture.org).

Fun Fact from Cinema Politica:

Upping the geek factor one more level, we have now made the Cinema Politica Winter Program available for download in electronic calendar format. The file was created in iCal (for Macs) but should work with most other calendar programs such as Outlook (for PCs). Simply click on the file listed on the schedules page, under “Concordia” and import to your computer calendar program, and voila! you’ll never forget a Cinema Politica screening again!

Ezra Winton
Director, Cinema Politica Film Network &
Programmer, Cinema Politica Concordia
http://www.cinemapolitica.org

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