6th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival Begins Thursday, May 19th 2011
(San Francisco, May 16) The 6th Annual CounterCorp International Anti-Corporate Film Festival opens this Thursday, May 19, and runs through Saturday, May 21, at the Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street in San Francisco.
The goal of the CounterCorp Festival is to raise public and media awareness about how corporations actually operate, promote critical thought and analysis on the effect those operations have on the rest of society, and encourage informed discussion and debate about what corporations really add to — and subtract from — humanity’s “bottom line”.
This year’s program includes:
Barbershop Punk, a software engineer discovers that Comcast is filtering its customers’ Internet traffic
Blood in the Mobile, huge electronics companies are funding a brutal war in central Africa to boost their profits
The Bottom Line, the campaign to end apartheid in South Africa by divesting from international corporations doing business there
Dreamland, Iceland’s decision to jump on the globalization bandwagon and its subsequent financial collapse
The Naked Option, Nigerian women threatening to strip in order to protest the effects of oil drilling on their communities
White Water, Black Gold, the destruction of one of the last natural frontiers in the world, in the pursuit of oil from the tar sands of western Canada
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Q&A’s with directors and activists follow most of the films, which screen each night at 7:00pm and 9:00pm. Tickets are $10. A full-festival pass is $50.
For more information — including film descriptions and trailers — visit www.countercorp.org, e-mail filmfest2011@countercorp.org, or call (415) 568-5739.
