For the last 20 years notorious activists The Yes Men have staged outrageous and hilarious hoaxes to draw international attention to corporate crimes against humanity and the environment. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits and a lack of shame these iconoclastic revolutionaries lie their way into business events and government functions to expose the dangers […]
Awareness Film Night will celebrate 20 years of presenting monthly documentaries on topics normally disregarded by the mainstream media with a re-screening of the first film we screened back in 1994: “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media“. Mark Achbar (“The Corporation”) and Peter Wintonick’s award-winning documentary presents Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political […]
In 2008 Swedish filmmaker Frederik Gertten went to Guatemala to make a documentary about the Dole banana plantation workers being exposed to toxic chemicals. When he debuted his film at the prestigious L.A. International Film Festival, the Dole Corporation came out with both barrels blazing: media articles denouncing Gertten and some of the people in […]
This Wednesday, March 9th, is the Awareness Film Night screening of British investigative journalist and filmmaker John Pilger’s latest documentary “The War You Don’t See”, about the media’s role in promoting and glorifying war. Usual time and place. By donation. A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of […]
Awareness Film Night January 9th – “Dahr Jamail – Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From An Unembedded Journalist”. Film of a talk given by Dahr in Vancouver one month ago in which he discusses what’s happening on the ground in Iraq today and what it felt like to be in Iraq as an unembedded journalist. […]
