September 26 - 30, 2007. Orlando, Florida.
The Global Peace Film Festival
4Real Kenya Canada, 2005, 24mins, Joshua Thome & Sol Guy, directors Follow Somali born Canadian refugee and hip hop artist K’naan Warsame as he goes back to Africa for the first time to make a music video for a song calling out the warlords in Somalia.
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep England, 2005, 85 mins, Ben Hopkins, director To preserve their tribe, the Pamir Kirghiz people migrated five times in the past century – across Central Asia to China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally Turkey. But now they face the most serious threat to their traditions: globalization. Until 25 years ago, the Kirghiz tribe lived a quasi-Iron Age existence in one of the remotest places on earth. Now settled in Turkey, they are a tribe divided. Those over 30 pine for their nomadic history and the rugged mountains of their homeland; the young have a modern education and live in a world of pop music and internet cafes.
Art from the Streets
USA, 2005, 73 minutes,
Layton Blaylock, Director
Art from the Streets is about homelessness, art and community service. It tells of a grassroots program in Austin, TX, for homeless artists. By following five artists over the course of a year, we learn about their daily struggles to survive, their passion for art and how this all-volunteer program helps the artists accomplish their goals while enriching the lives of all involved. The viewer is taken to homeless camps, learn of the daily challenges of street life and witness the strengths of human character.
At Dawning
Great Britain, 2002, 12 mins,
Martin Jones, director
A woman escaping from a one-night stand she already regrets is sidetracked by a man dangling from a tree outside her window
Building Bridges
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Jeanine Butler, director
Meet the women of the Mostar Women's Citizen Initiative, an exceptional group of community leaders, political activists and ordinary citizens who have launched a joint effort to transcend ethnic and religious strife in a country fractured by war.
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Campfire
Israel, 2005, 96mins,
Joseph Cedar, director
A story of one woman’s personal journey, and also a portrait of a movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East. In 1981, Rachel Gerlik, a 42 year-old widow with two teenage girls, wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank. The problem is that the settlement’s acceptance committee won’t approve her unless she remarries and demonstrates that she and her daughters can meet the group’s religious and ideological standards. When her youngest daughter is accused of seducing some boys from her youth movement, Rachel is forced to weigh her allegiances. Only the bachelor Yossi, the new man in her life, can show Rachel that living as an outcast is not as bad as it seems.
Chances of the World Changing
USA, 2005, 99 mins,
Eric Daniel Metzgar, director
What began as a desire to help save endangered turtles becomes an all-consuming passion for New York artist Richard Ogust who eventually shares his apartment with 1200 rare specimens of tortoises from around the globe. Brought to a personal and financial breaking point, Ogust must try to find a way to rebuild his life and ensure the survival of his precious charges. These are two ventures, Ogust muses, whose odds of success are as unlikely as those of the film’s title. This beautifully shot film tells the story of a man whose devotion to nature has literally taken him out of the world.