The First Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm the UUCOC hosts free screenings of socially relevant films followed by a (usually intense) discussion of actions we can take.
CoSponsored by the Dallas
Peace Center
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Click here to visit our archives of the films
we've screened since October of 2006.
September 7th:
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Made in L.A.
Our co-sponsors for this film include
the Dallas Peace Center
and
Jobs With Justice
(www.LaborDallas.org)
In intimate observational style, this Emmy award-winning feature documentary follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21.
October 5th:
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The Witness
Our co-sponsors for this film include
the Dallas Peace Center.
How does a construction contractor from a tough Brooklyn neighborhood become an impassioned animal advocate?
In this award-winning documentary, Eddie Lama explains how he feared and avoided animals for most of his life, until the love of a kitten opened his heart, inspiring him to rescue abandoned animals and bring his message of compassion to the streets of New York. With humor and sincerity, Eddie tells the story of his remarkable change in consciousness.
November 2nd:
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Miss HIV
Our co-sponsors for this film include
the Dallas Peace Center.
Miss HIV follows the journey of two HIV-positive women who enter the MissHIV contest in Botswana. It compares what is happening in Botswana, where half of all pregnant women have HIV, and Uganda, a country which has experienced the largest reductions of new infections ever recorded. The story takes you backstage to the Miss HIV pageant and behind the curtain on the war against a virus that is now the leading killer of people under 60 in the world.
This film is being screened by the First Tuesday Film Festival in conjunction with the visit of the AIDS Quilt to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff during the first week of November.
December 7th:
Renewal Project
Our co-sponsors for this film include
the Dallas Peace Center.
Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting mountaintop removal, a coal mining process that is decimating Appalachia. Muslims are supporting sustainable farming. Jews are helping children experience the bond between nature and spirituality. Interfaith Power and Light is mobilizing people of all faiths in a religious response to global warming. For the first time, the combined energy of these diverse activists is the driving force behind a feature-length documentary, entitled RENEWAL. Veteran film producers Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller have crisscrossed the country to capture these exciting stories of people whose passion and deep moral commitment are making a difference in a time of grave ecological threats.
January 2011:
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The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
Our co-sponsors for this film include
the Dallas Peace Center.
Through the eyes of eight-year-old Mir Hussain we see the destruction of his town in post-Taliban Afghanistan. We see the ever-present militarization and the welcomed but watched presence of the Americans. Mir is fun, cheeky, inquisitive, energetic and bright. He also lives in a cave and owns virtually nothing - though to him this is normal; it is all he's known. His engaging story is not one of gloom and doom but that of a normal child who takes life as it comes and finds entertainment wherever he can. His playground is the rubble and tunnels of the destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan, the shelled and burnt-out town bazaar and the orchard of the local militia.
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Some of our co-sponsors
have included:
The Dallas Peace Center
Spiral Diner & Bakery
www.LaborDallas.org
Council on
American-Islamic Relations
Animal Connection Texas
Amnesty International
DFW & SMU Chapters
Texas Coalition to Abolish
the Death Penalty
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