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Early Bird Event -Audio Workshop – 11/13/11 – Film Council Office – Columbus, OH

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Event
Early Bird Event -Audio Workshop
When
Sunday, November 13, 2011
2:00pm - 18+
Where
Film Council Office (map)
1021 E Broad St, Carriage House in rear
Columbus, OH, USA 43205

Parking is free in the Red Cross parking lot.
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Early Bird Event

Audio Workshop
Sunday, November 13, 2PM
Columbus Film Council
1021 E Broad St (carriage house in the backyard)
Columbus Ohio

Often the difference between a good indie production and one that is unwatchable is audio. Unfortunate but true. The Columbus Film Council, in its efforts to help filmmakers in Central Ohio, is offering a location audio production workshop with master filmmaker Tom Hayes. Hayes, of Foglight Films, has been working in the “industry” for over 30 years, as an audio tech, cameraman, DP, and Avid Editor. He currently teaches postproduction at Ohio University, but previous to that position Tom worked on many, many productions as the “audio guy”. Tom’s own independent films have screened around the world and have received too many grants, awards, and accolades to list.

In this workshop Tom will be covering "best practices" in audio production for video and film including basic equipment requirements, mike placement, booming strategies, double system and single system recording, and preparing audio for post production.

$15 for members
$35 for nonmembers







Audio Workshop

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Dirty Business: \\\”Clean Coal\\\” And The Battle For Our Energy Future – 10/25/11 – Drexel Theater – Columbus, OH

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Event
Dirty Business: "Clean Coal" And The Battle For Our Energy Future
When
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Drexel Theater (map)
2254 E Main St
Columbus, OH, USA 43209-2319
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Can coal ever really be made "clean"? Watch the 90-minute documentary that investigates. Half our electricity comes from coal, the largest single source of greenhouse gases. But it doesn't have to be that way. Featuring stories from China to West Virginia, Dirty Business reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and explores the murky realities of "clean coal" technology. Guided by Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell, the film highlights the work of energy innovators and the viable, renewable alternatives they offer in an age of rapid climate change.

Winner of both the Bronze Plaque and the Central Ohio Green Education Fund Award at the CIFVF.

This screening is free.
Co Sponsored by the Free Press and the Central Ohio Green Education Fund Award.

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Shorts – 09/30/11 – Brothers Drake Meadery – Columbus, Ohio

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Event
Shorts
When
Friday, September 30, 2011
8:00pm - 21+
Where
Brothers Drake Meadery (map)
26 E. 5th Ave

Columbus, Ohio, USA
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The Columbus Film Council presents an evening of short video works- experimental, animation, local and international. We are the longest operating independent film organization in the USA. Admission is free, donations accepted. Come watch great shorts and drink some fabulous mead with us!

In addition to all the cool stuff mentioned above we have decided to let you, the audience, be the judges for the Experimental Shorts Division this year. That's right, you get to decide who wins! All you need to do is to show up, buy an incredibly inexpensive membership tag (just $10, which gets you all kinds of discounts and free admission to our big party on November 19) and you get to vote! Wowza! If you don't want to be a member or vote come on down anyways, you'll be welcome to view the films for free along with us and drink fantastic mead.

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Locked Out: A documentary about a fight to save the middle class – 09/27/11 – Drexel Theater – Columbus, OH

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Event
Locked Out: A documentary about a fight to save the middle class
When
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Drexel Theater (map)
2254 E Main St
Columbus, OH, USA 43209-2319
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This documentary tells the David and Goliath story of how miners in Boron, California fought the Rio Tinto Group that drastically cut the workers' benefits. Rio Tinto threatened the miners in Boron--either accept their cutbacks in the new contract or find themselves locked out of work. On January 30th, 2010 the workers voted unaminously to reject the company's proposed contract and on January 31st, 2010, they were locked out of work. The workers faced financial hardships but stood strong during the 107 day lockout and beat back a multinational corporation. It further reveals Rio Tinto's egregious practices in the U.S. and around the globe--from Michigan to Australia to Bougainville. Co-sponsored by the Sierra Club, the Columbus International Film and Video Festival, and the Free Press.

This screening is free.

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Mother: Caring For 7 Billion – 09/21/11 – Gateway Film Center – Columbus, Ohio

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Event
Mother: Caring For 7 Billion
When
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
Gateway Film Center (map)
1550 North High Street
Columbus, Ohio, USA 43215
Other Info
Reception following the film in lounge
Free food + Beer (must be 21+ for the beer)
(Free) tickets available an hour before the start time

Mother, the film, breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our most pressing environmental, humanitarian and social crises - population growth. It is a critical time to talk about this subject because for the first time, in 2011, the world’s population will be seven billion people.
Population was once at the top of the international agenda, dominating the first Earth Day and the subject of best-selling books like “The Population Bomb”. Since the 1960s the world population has nearly doubled, adding more than 3 billion people. At the same time, talking about population has become politically incorrect because of the sensitivity of the issues surrounding the topic–religion, economics, family planning and gender inequality. Yet it is an issue we cannot afford to ignore.

Co sponsored by Population Connection.

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Contested Streets – 09/12/11 – Gateway Film Center – Columbus, Ohio

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Event
Contested Streets
When
Monday, September 12, 2011
7:30pm - All Ages Buy Tickets
Where
Gateway Film Center (map)
1550 North High Street
Columbus, Ohio, USA 43215
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CONTESTED STREETS explores the history and culture of New York City streets from pre-automobile times to the present. This examination allows for an understanding of how the city - though the most well served by mass transit in the United States - has slowly relinquished what was a rich, multi-dimensional conception of the street as public space to a mindset that prioritizes the rapid movement of cars and trucks over all other functions.

Central to the story is a comparison of New York to what is experienced in London, Paris and Copenhagen. Interviews and footage shot in these cities showcase how limiting automobile use in recent years has improved air quality, minimized noise pollution and enriched commercial, recreational and community interaction. London's congestion pricing scheme, Paris' BRT (bus rapid transit) and Copenhagen's bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure are all examined in depth. New York City, though to many the most vibrant and dynamic city on Earth, still has lessons to learn from Old Europe.

Admission is $5.
This screening is co sponsored by the Sierra Club and MORPC.

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GCAC Media Artist Fellowships – 08/31/11 – On the internets and via USPS – Columbus, Ohio

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Event
GCAC Media Artist Fellowships
When
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
TBD - All Ages
Where
On the internets and via USPS (map)
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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The Columbus Film Council and
The Greater Columbus Arts Council
present the
2011 Individual Media Artists Fellowship Program

For more information and to apply:

http://bit.ly/p8YuWH

The 2011 program will distribute 3 fellowships to media artists,
in the disciplines of film, video, and digital moving image.

Appllication deadline is 8/31/11.

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The Battle of Chernobyl – 08/23/11 – Drexel Theater – Columbus, OH

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Event
The Battle of Chernobyl
When
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Drexel Theater (map)
2254 E Main St
Columbus, OH, USA 43209-2319
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This poignant film shows the human side of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It showcases video clips of the original explosion, original clips of the immediate and ongoing mitigation attempts, interviews with Gorbechev and workers at the plant, both at the time and recently, and interviews with the “liquidators”—those people who experienced deadly risk to prevent much greater contamination. The World Health Organization estimates that 800,000 (yes, that figure is correct) people were commandeered for cleanup. Many felt they needed to risk their lives and act to save humanity.

Dr. Bernhard Debatin, Ohio University professor of journalism, was living in Berlin at the time of the accident and was exposed. The well-informed and articulate professor has agreed to lead a discussion about Chernobyl, Fukushima and other nuclear matters following the screening.

The film is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Sierra Club, the Columbus International Film + Video Festival, the Central Ohio Green Education Fund, the Drexel Theater and the Free Press.

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Killer Coke – 07/26/11 – Drexel Theater – Columbus, OH

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Event
Killer Coke
When
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Drexel Theater (map)
2254 E Main St
Columbus, OH, USA 43209-2319
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"Dispatches: Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola" a British Channel 4 documentary (2007) 48 min.
Political activist and journalist Mark Thomas travels to South America, India and the US to investigate the way in which Coca-Cola and its suppliers operate and the extent to which they uphold moral and ethical obligations.

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"The Cost of a Coke Revisited" a documentary by Matt Beard (2010) 31 min.
Since 1990, 8 Colombian union workers have been murdered in Coca-Cola bottling plants. This film investigates why schools around the world have kicked Coke off of their campuses and labeled Coke as the drink of the death squads.

Admission is free.

These films are co sponsored by the Free Press, the CIFVF, and the Central Ohio Green Education Fund.

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Plunder: The Crime of Our Time – 06/28/11 – Drexel Theater – Columbus, OH

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Event
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
When
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Drexel Theater (map)
2254 E Main St
Columbus, OH, USA 43209-2319
Other Info
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time is a hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed.

The film opens with the conviction of Ponzi King Bernie Madoff, whose acknowledged criminality drove a $65 billion dollar pyramid scheme. It argues that the wrong doing committed by a few individuals distracts from the real story, implicating the best-known institutions that financed and profited from fraudulent sub prime lending. This connection is now being investigated by the FBI as part of a probe into what it calls a "fraud epidemic."

PLUNDER shows how these firms created special securities to repackage and resell these dubious loans after they were re-rated as Triple A. These firms then bet against many of these toxic assets with credit default swaps and other insurance scams. By leveraging these investments, they recklessly put trillions of dollars and the world economy at risk.

Admission is free.

This screening is presented by the Free Press, CIFVF, and the Central Ohio Green Education Fund.

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