Spotlighting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on their 60th anniversary, a special London Indymedia Cinema screening will commence at 9 pm this Thursday 24th of June at the Other Cinema, Soho, with film makers' Q and A and a speaker from the Bretton Woods Project.
'SUITS AND SAVAGES'
Why the World Bank Won't Save the World (Zoe Young and Dylan Howitt)
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) looks promising on paper - billions of
dollars of official aid for global conservation. But does this new
multilateral financial institution live up to its own rhetoric? SUITS AND
SAVAGES examines a GEF/World Bank 'ecodevelopment' project from the ground
up - from one remote tribe in Nagarhole, Southern India to another, far more
powerful, in Washington DC.
"excellent" - Tony Benn
Preceded by:
'CROWD BITES WOLF - the Czech Connection' (Guerillavision)
The world's biggest poverty peddlers - the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund - scuttle off to Prague in September 2000, but an international
army of insurrection is waiting. Caught in the middle of the black block,
the pink and silver block and the revolutionary fever, feather dusters and
firebombs, one man finds his anticipated fortnight on the piss shelved by a
chance encounter. From the makers of 'Rattle in Seattle'.
"the best activist film ever made" - Konscious.com; "'a pornography of
pain" - George Monbiot in the Guardian
And:
'Two Trevors Go to Washington' (Seipone Productions, South Africa)
An insightful and humorous account of IMF and World Bank meetings and
protests, as seen through the eyes of two South Africans. Finance Minister
Trevor Manuel (then chairman of the World Bank/IMF joint Board of Governors)
calls for internal reform while on the streets, former ANC Councillor Trevor Ngwane joins protests calling for immediate debt cancellation and an end to devastating policies promoted by the IMF and World Bank. The tale of globalization is told
through contrasting perspectives and the intertwining adventures of the two
Trevors. Through their oft-humorous adventures we get a unique inside picture of the commanding heights of the world economy, and of the protest movement that has emerged to challenge them.
Also Q&A with filmmakers and campaigners.
THURSDAY 24TH JUNE 9:00pm
The Other Cinema
11 Rupert Street,
London W1
Tel: 020 7734 1506
Nearest tubes: Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Sq.
£6:50 waged/£4:50 unwaged
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/cinema.html
The Bretton Woods Project
Critical voices on the World Bank and IMF
www.brettonwoodsproject.org
Tel: +44 (0)20 7561 7547
Why the World Bank Won't Save the World (Zoe Young and Dylan Howitt)
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) looks promising on paper - billions of
dollars of official aid for global conservation. But does this new
multilateral financial institution live up to its own rhetoric? SUITS AND
SAVAGES examines a GEF/World Bank 'ecodevelopment' project from the ground
up - from one remote tribe in Nagarhole, Southern India to another, far more
powerful, in Washington DC.
"excellent" - Tony Benn
Preceded by:
'CROWD BITES WOLF - the Czech Connection' (Guerillavision)
The world's biggest poverty peddlers - the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund - scuttle off to Prague in September 2000, but an international
army of insurrection is waiting. Caught in the middle of the black block,
the pink and silver block and the revolutionary fever, feather dusters and
firebombs, one man finds his anticipated fortnight on the piss shelved by a
chance encounter. From the makers of 'Rattle in Seattle'.
"the best activist film ever made" - Konscious.com; "'a pornography of
pain" - George Monbiot in the Guardian
And:
'Two Trevors Go to Washington' (Seipone Productions, South Africa)
An insightful and humorous account of IMF and World Bank meetings and
protests, as seen through the eyes of two South Africans. Finance Minister
Trevor Manuel (then chairman of the World Bank/IMF joint Board of Governors)
calls for internal reform while on the streets, former ANC Councillor Trevor Ngwane joins protests calling for immediate debt cancellation and an end to devastating policies promoted by the IMF and World Bank. The tale of globalization is told
through contrasting perspectives and the intertwining adventures of the two
Trevors. Through their oft-humorous adventures we get a unique inside picture of the commanding heights of the world economy, and of the protest movement that has emerged to challenge them.
Also Q&A with filmmakers and campaigners.
THURSDAY 24TH JUNE 9:00pm
The Other Cinema
11 Rupert Street,
London W1
Tel: 020 7734 1506
Nearest tubes: Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Sq.
£6:50 waged/£4:50 unwaged
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/cinema.html The Bretton Woods Project
Critical voices on the World Bank and IMF
www.brettonwoodsproject.org
Tel: +44 (0)20 7561 7547
