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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Franklin LoÃŒÂpez’ Film END:CIV Screening in Columbus Friday, May 27 2011.
Columbus, OH – May 22 2011 – Director Franklin LoÃŒÂpez’ film END:CIV on tour, with its first/only Columbus screening this Friday, May 27 at 8pm at the Awarehouse around the corner from the Sporeprint (directions at the Sporeprint - 172 E. 5th Ave.)
If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? If creatures from outer space made the water so poisonous you wouldn't dream of drinking it, would you try to stop them? If monsters released toxic chemicals that caused cancer in the people you love, would you fight back?
END:CIV illustrates the brutality of a civilization addicted to systematic violence and environmental destruction, and the heroism of those who confront it head-on. Rapid- fire video-game graphics, interviews, war footage and satire mock the excesses of the global economic system, even as it implodes around us.
Interviews include Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Society and writers James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency), Gord Hill (500 Years of Indigenous Resistance), Waziyatawin (For Indigenous Eyes Only), Lierre Keith (The Vegetarian Myth), and Stephanie McMillan (Minimum Security). LoÃŒÂpez interviews indigenous activists Qwatsinas (Nuxalk Nation) and Rod Coronado (Pascua Yaqui); environmentalists Steven Best, Zoe Blunt, Dru Oja Jay, Macdonald Stainsby, and many more.
Hailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, LoÃŒÂpez hosts “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine," the world's most subversive news show. In 2005, his post- Katrina video remix “George Bush Don’t Like Black People†reached a million people and got a nod from the New York Times and the Washington Post. Wired Magazine listed subMedia.TV in its top ten online video sites in 2006, the same year LoÃŒÂpez was hired to produce Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!
END:CIV screening May 27, 2011 at 8pm Location: Sporeprint InfoShop & Awarehouse, 172 E 5th Ave, Columbus OH 43201
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