The Columbus Film Council, MOFA, and the GCAC are collaborating to host a workshop on how to apply for the 2012 GCAC Individual Artists Fellowships in Media. This workshop will aim to help media artists successfully apply for the 2012 GCAC Individual Artists Fellowships in Media.

Susan Halpern, Executive Director of the Columbus Film Council, will cover the ins and outs of a successful application to the 2012 GCAC Individual Artists Fellowships in Media program, both the online (GoArts) application process and how filmmakers can best present their work to make the most of the 10 minute DVD requirement.

Free.

Contested Streets explores the history of 20th Century transportation in America and how we got into the auto-supreme society with its lack of transportation options. The movie takes us to the European cities of Copenhagen, Paris and London and shows the steps they have taken to make their cities more multimodal. 57 minutes

Moving Beyond the Automobile is a series of segments on new and more progressive policies and transportation elements that are happening which are making our cities easier to navigate. These include bus rapid transit, highway removal, transit-oriented development, traffic calming and more. 39 minutes

Co-sponsored by the Sierra Club,, the Central Ohio Green Education Fund and The Free Press. Free and open to the public.

While the ongoing meltdown continues at Fukushima, this 2011 film gives us information and motivation to act for change. Award-winning documentary director Gary Null deconstructs the corporate and political rhetoric that low level radiation emitted from nuclear plants is safe and that our future energy needs depend upon nuclear reactors.

Discussion led by Harvey Wasserman after the film.

The 2-hour film is co-sponsored by the Sierra Club, the Central Ohio Green Education Fund and The Free Press. It is free and open to the public.

Sean McHenry films are quirky, experimental, and fantastic. A 2011 finalist for the GCAC Media Arts Fellowship, Sean is dedicated to shooting on film- 8mm, Super 8, 16mm and Super 16mm film and to using older motion picture cameras in the style of an experimental auteur.

Sean will present about an hour worth of material and do q+a.

Admission is free.

This hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald. Charles and David Koch are using their billions to put a stranglehold on American democracy. What are we going to do about it?

Co sponsored by the Free Press

Admission is free.

Filmmaker Mitchell Rose will present a program of his comic short films at Shorts At Brothers Drake. Called "a rare and wonderful talent" by The New York Times, Rose's offbeat films are screened the world over. Winner of 57 film awards, Rose moved to Columbus this year to be a professor of filmmaking at OSU.

Admission is free, donations accepted.

This event made possible with support from the NEA, The OAC, the GCAC, and the Short North Foundation.

This documentary provides the real story of how the health care systems in Canada and the United States evolved to be so completely different, when at one point they were essentially the same. Most people under the age of 50, in both countries, are not aware of the intensity of the political struggle that led to the universal medical care system in Canada. Nor are they aware of the public relations campaigns, still active today, that have been prevalent in the United States since the early 1900’s to dissuade the public from supporting national health care.

Produced by Canadian/American couple Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg, The Healthcare Movie reveals the personal and emotional impact on Canadians who now have access to universal health care because of the heroism of people who took a stand nearly 50 years ago. It also reveals the continuing struggle in the United States between the fear of government intervention and the right to quality health care for all people.

Screening sponsored by SPAN Ohio.org and Freepress.org and the Columbus Film Council.

Admission is Free.

Shorts at Brothers Drake #3

The Columbus Film Council is pleased to present selected works from the Ohio State University Film Studies Program's The Journal Of Short Film at the next Shorts at Brothers Drake Screening on February 29 at 8pm at Brothers Drake Meadery, 26 E. 5th St (at the corner of 5th and High).

The screening is curated by the JFS’s Matt Swift. The JFS is a quarterly DVD journal containing 90-120 minutes of independent short film per volume. For more information about The Journal of Short Film visit http://thejsf.org

This screening is free, donations encouraged.

Here's a list of what will be screening:

THE TRIBE – Tiffany Shlain
COLOR + MODULATION 1 - Rob Tyler
THE OPTION OF WAR – Nick Fox-Gieg
SOMEWHERE NEVER TRAVELED - Ben Garchar
PANCAKES FOR DAD – Stacie Sells
PARASOL– Webster Crowell
WINNING THE PEACE - Eli Kaufman
Los ABC’S: QUE VIVAN LOS MUERTOS! – John Jota Leaños

This event is funded in part by the Short North Foundation, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the NEA, and the Ohio Arts Council.

It's called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the unending echo of battle etched in the brain may affect up to 15% of soldiers by some estimates. It can destroy families, and can leave its sufferers unable to work, addiction addled and changed.

All the soldiers who bravely speak out in this film are doing so because they want us to understand what they endure. They also want to reach out to others who are suffering in silence, and may feel the only way of ending their pain is ending their lives.

Senator and L. General (Retired) Roméo Dallaire also plays a major role in this film. For many years he has heroically spoken out in public to declare that he suffered intensely from PTSD and had attempted suicide. And today he continues to campaign on behalf of all soldiers who suffer.

War in the Mind also investigates the issue of soldier suicide. Statistics from past and present wars tell the sad story of the magnitude of this problem. Families who have felt invisible, their sons' stories unacknowledged, tell of the impact of their loss.

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This screening is free.

Screening sponsored by The Free Press, COGEF, Ohio Arts Council, NEA, and GCAC.