Film

This is the second of two film screenings about Honduras with documentarian Jesse Freeston, a filmmaker and video-journalist based in Montréal, Québec. Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital is a documentary film about a community that got fed up and built their own hospital.

Sponsored by OSU Center for Latin American Studies.

This is the first of two film screenings about Honduras with documentarian Jesse Freeston, a filmmaker and video-journalist based in Montréal, Québec. Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley is a film about farmers in the Aguan Valley of Honduras who have been resisting the takeover of their land by a wealthy businessman who wants to plant it with African palm oil trees. About 80 community leaders have been killed in the years-long confrontation with Facusse’s private guards.

Sponsored by OSU Center for Latin American Studies.

Advancing the role of the arts in sparking meaningful dialogue about contemporary issues, this fall’s “Director’s Dialogue” features the powerful and timely documentary Cincinnati Goddamn. Supported by our Film/Video Studio Program, the film captures the personal trauma and civic unrest that followed the deaths of 15 African American men at the hands of Cincinnati police from 1995 to 2001. The screening will be followed by a compelling discussion with filmmakers April Martin and the Wexner Center’s own Paul Hill.

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill.

Local filmmaker Tom Hayes will be present to discuss the issues covered in his brilliant new documentary that explores the passionate debate among Israeli citizens about their government’s Occupation of Palestine. The film deftly splices together dueling creeds, and the result is electrifying, because it’s a split so rarely displayed on U.S. screens. The movie shows competing views of Judaism: a religious entitlement to land versus a spiritual commitment to freeing the oppressed, asking whether Jews are safer segregated or connected to other humanity.

Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible — what kind of projects and solutions are already underway.

Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.

Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the U.S. media where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades, their overwhelming influence has distorted news journalism and compromised its values.

Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible — what kind of projects and solutions are already underway.

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill.

This documentary investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality, but also a growing problem placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behavior.