- MIT
Environmental Film Festival
sponsored by the Department
of Urban Studies and Planning
Film screenings
and free dinner will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6pm
January 16-February 1, and double features beginning at 5pm on Friday, February
2 and Saturday, February 3. All screenings will be held in room 32-124 of
the
Stata Center.
THURS,
FEB 1
6:30pm - Total Denial (74 min): The story of
the construction of the
UNOCAL/TOTAL oil pipeline in Burma. An unprecedented legal battle will unfold
in a US courtroom, shocking the world with its revelations. Fifteen plaintiffs
who've never left the Burmese jungle will battle head-to-head with two
corporate giants. The outcome of this struggle will profoundly affect the
actions of corporations worldwide.
DOUBLE FEATURE FILMS
Films will begin at 5:00pm and 6:30pm, with dinner served during intermission.
FRI, FEB 2
5:00pm - Dying to Breathe: The Struggle for Environmental
Justice in South
Africa- A documentary about why the lives of ordinary people living
in
Sasolburg and South Durban have become a daily struggle for health because
of
excessively high levels of air pollution.
6:30pm
- Shipbreakers (42
min) - Welcome to Alang, India, the site of a
gargantuan scrap yard where oceangoing ships come to die. Forty thousand
Indians live and work here, dismembering and scavenging the hulks of 400
vessels every year.
SAT, FEB 3
5:00pm - Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (55 min)
- The film examines the impact
of corporate globalization on Mexico, focusing on the maquiladoras, U.S.-owned
factories employing cheap Mexican labor.
6:30pm
- The Charcoal People (68
min) - This film by Academy Award-winning
filmmaker Nigel Noble documents the workaday lives of Brazilian peasants who
cut down trees in the Amazon rain forest and burn the wood in earthen kilns
to
make charcoal, an essential ingredient for the manufacture of pig iron in
the
U.S.