The War Resisters League and the Brecht Forum present
SCREENPEACE: AN ANTIWAR FILM FESTIVAL

With a foreword by filmmaker John Sayles, Screenpeace: An Antiwar Film Festival, the War Resisters League 2007 Peace Calendar, looks at more than 50 antiwar films and videos from the last 20 years, from Hollywood blockbusters like Syriana to grassroots documentaries. This winter, see a rich selection of films and videos selected from the calendar at "Screenpeace: the Festival," including:

Friday, January 19

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin       

(USA, 2003. English, 83 min., documentary)

Discussion with Mandy Carter, Nancy Kates, Walter Naegle & Bennett Singer

Best-known as the main organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Bayard Rustin spent most of his career as a peace activist and was, in fact, on leave from the staff of the War Resisters League when he organized the march. WRL had welcomed him onto its staff when he lost his job at the Fellowship of Reconciliation after being arrested for homosexual acts in California, and longtime WRL staffer David McReynolds, who served on the staff with Rustin for years, is one of the many interviewed for this biography. Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Mandy Carter (southern gay rights and anti-racist activist),directors Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer and Walter Naegle (Bayard Rustin's surviving partner) will join us for the discussion.

 
The Rest of the Festival:

Friday, January 26 Worlds Apart. The 2004 journey to Afghanistan by Ground Zero for Peace founder Megan Bartlett and other members of the antiwar 9-11 emergency workers’ group, and their meetings with their counterparts in Kabul.

Thursday, February 1 Men with Guns.  John Sayles’ only Spanish-language film (so far), this is the story of one man’s belated political awakening: After his wife’s death, an aging doctor in an unnamed Latin American country goes on a quest for his legacy and finds, instead, his country’s legacy of violence.

Friday, February 9 The Camden 28. The draft board raids of the late ’60s and early ’70s were an attempt to stop the U.S. Selective Service from conducting business as usual and prefigured the Plowshares movement that followed. One such raid was planned in Camden, NJ, in August of 1971—and stopped by the FBI when a member of the planning group blew the whistle on the project. This is the story of the plan, the betrayal, the trial of the so-called conspirators, and its dramatic outcome.

Friday, February 16 The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It. The story of the conscientious objectors of World War II, many of whom, like Dave Dellinger, Bill Sutherland, and WRL’s own Ralph DiGia,  spent the war years in prison—and radicalized the peace movement when they got out.

Plus discussions with filmmakers, heroes whose works are celebrated in the films, and other surprise guests, and selected shorts, including one from the Paper Tiger series Shocking and Awful, and WRL’s own Military Myths.

All screenings at 8 PM. For tickets, call (212) 228-0450. For more information about the films being shown or to purchase the calendar, see www.warresisters.org.

Screenings $10 each
$7.50 for seniors and students                                           A benefit for the War Resisters League                                        

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The Brecht Forum
451 West St.  (Betw Bank & Bethune)

New York, NY 10014
(212) 242- 4201
www.brechtforum.org

Contact: Liz Roberts (212) 228-0450 x104 or liz@warresisters.org

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