Subtext of a Yale Education
(1999, Documentary, running time: 31 minutes)
Documents the corporatization of higher education and 2 years of labor relations at Yale from a student’s point of view. Student thesis documenting the prominent 1998 labor strike on the Yale campus.
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Green
(2000, Documentary, running time: 47 minutes)
Student Academy Award®-winning film about environmental justice along the Petrochemical Corridor.
In the 100 miles between Baton Rouge and New Orleans there are over 150 petrochemical plants which are responsible for producing 25% of the nation’s petrochemicals. This area reports the highest concentration of toxic emissions to the air, land and water in the country. The residents of this area, who are mainly African American and poor, suffer from astronomical rates of cancer, asthma and other medical ailments.
GREEN documents this environmental injustice: the disproportionate toxic development in areas populated by minorities and low income groups. The film journeys through six communities, see map, showing how one group of people may be bearing the burden for a nation’s consumerism.
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Running Time: 47 minutes
- Includes Closed Caption subtitling (English)
- Commentary on GREEN by director Laura Dunn
- Slideshow (Photos by Willie Fontenot)
- Dunn’s 1998 experimental population-oriented short film Baby
Village Voice features “The Unforeseen” in preview of Sundance Institute at BAM
Scott Foundas begins his May 29th Village Voice article entitled “Fort Greene, Utah: Removed from the Park City hype, Sundance comes to Brooklyn”:
Despair, Inc. is the apt name of one of the production companies behind director Laura Dunn’s The Unforeseen, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and receives its first New York screening as part of BAM’s annual series of Sundance highlights. The best, and the least ballyhooed, of the recent wave of “green” documentaries, Dunn’s debut feature contains neither computer-simulations of the earth’s imminent destruction nor the appearance of a celebrity host/narrator to share his own fervent environmentalism….
To read the full article, click here.
As a reminder, “The Unforeseen” will screen at BAM this Sunday June 10 @ 6pm.
For more information, click here.
Upcoming Houston, TX screening
Real Films/Documentary Alliance, with the Houston Sierra Club and Memorial Park Conservancy, will host a special screening of “The Unforeseen” on July 7 at the Aurora Picture Show.
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Cinematographer Lee Daniel travels to Germany to screen “The Unforeseen”
Film: THE UNFORESEEN
Montage, 25.06.07 17:30
Forum Kino 1Mittwoch, 27.06.07 17:30
Forum Kino 1