The Marketing of Madness: The Truth About Psychotropic Drugs The ‘Marketing of Madness’ is the definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Here is the real story of the high income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit centre. But appearances are deceiving. How valid are psychiatrists’ […]
Awareness Film Night Weds. Dec. 10 “From the Heart of the World, the Elder Brothers’ Warning” The Kogi are an indigenous people living in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern Columbia in South America. They are the only civilization to have survived the Spanish conquests and kept their culture intact and themselves isolated. In 1988 […]
Awareness Film Night will be opening its 15th season on Weds. October 1 with the 2007 John Pilger film “The War on Democracy”. This documentary is British journalist John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema – in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Beautifully filmed in Latin America and the […]
In 2006, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” woke the world up to the dangers of global warming. But, argues Joel Kovel, while we should be grateful to Gore for sounding the alarm, we also need to go far beyond his reading of the causes of this crisis and of what needs to be done about […]
Wednesday October 3 – “The Ground Truth” – tells the story of soldiers – how they are recruited, how they are trained to overcome their natural aversion to killing, what they experience on the ground and their struggle to reintegrate into their families and communities when they come home. Producer/director Patricia Foulkrod writes “I wanted […]
Hello moviegoers…..the May Awareness Video Night film will be “The Iron Wall”. This 2006 documentary examines the situation in Israel and Palestine that exists after 39 years of occupation by Israel. The film shows the 670 km. long wall that Israel is building and how it impacts on every aspect of life for Palestinians. Jean-Jacques […]
December 13th is the next Awareness Video Night presentation: “The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”. This newly-released documentary explores what happened in Cuba in 1990 when their supply of gas and oil was cut in half. A rare view into this island culture, this film documents how Cuba became a living example of […]
