Thursday, June 24, 5:15pm, Regal 9

Where Are You Taking Me?

ABOUT THE FILM:

A high society wedding, a boxing club, a beauty salon, a school for survivors of the civil war: these are a few of the many places in Uganda discovered in Kimi Takesue's feature documentary, WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME. Employing an observational style, this contemplative documentary reveals multifaceted portraits of Ugandans in both public and private spaces. The film travels through Uganda, roaming the vibrant streets of Kampala and the rural quiet of the North, to reveal a diverse society where global popular culture finds expression alongside enduring Ugandan traditions. Throughout the journey, WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME asks us to consider the complex interplay between the observer and the observed, and challenges our notions of both the familiar and exotic. WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME offers unexpected images of a complex country, encouraging us to abandon preconceived notions of where we are going and what we will find.

2010 | Uganda/USA | 72 min.

DIRECTOR: Kimi Takesue
PRODUCERS: Kimi Takesue, in association with Lane Street Pictures
CO-PRODUCERS: Richard Beenen
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kimi Takesue

WEBSITE: lanestreetpictures.com

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Friday, June 25
Music starts at 7:30, film starts at 8:15, California Plaza, Downtown Los Angeles

This is a FREE outside screening, please arrive early for best seats.
VIP’s will introduce film. Filmmaker Q&A following screening.
350 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Climate Refugees

ABOUT THE FILM:

There is a new phenomenon in the global arena called CLIMATE REFUGEES. A climate refugee is a person displaced by climatically induced environmental disasters. Such disasters result from incremental and rapid ecological change, resulting in increased droughts, desertification, sea level rise, and the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, cyclones, fires, mass flooding and tornadoes. All this is causing mass global migration and border conflicts. For the first time, the Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the term climate wars is being talked about in war-room like environments in Washington D.C. The U.N. currently states that more refugees are now displaced by environmental disasters than by war, more than 25 million climate refugees (ecologically induced migrants), and experts have projected that number will double within the next five years to over 50 million. Several organizations like the IPCC, Red Cross and The Christian Monitor estimate between 150 million and 1 billion climate refugees will be displaced within the next four decades, yet not one single international law gives asylum, or even a helping hand to environmental refugees.

2010 | Bangladesh/Chad/China/Kenya/Tuvalu/USA | 89 min.

DIRECTOR: Michael P. Nash
WRITER Michael P. Nash
PRODUCERS: Michael P. Nash, Justin Hogan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael P. Nash

WEBSITE: climaterefugees.com