Tag Archive for: Chile

University of Chile attacked with Tear Gas and Water Cannon

It doesn’t only happen in Turkey. Yesterday, while filming in Santiago, I had my first experience of tear gas. I went to film the latest student protest march against the heavily privatised education system which is a heritage of the neoliberal policies of the Pinochet dictatorship. I filmed far more than I needed, because it was huge and very impressive (it took 75 minutes to pass the National Library where I was stationed) with all the expectable banners, drumming, bands, and dancing, and perfectly peaceful, following the pattern established a couple of years ago when the protest movement began. Read more

‘Protest Chile’ screening 22 September

Screening of ‘Protest Chile’ (last part of 3 About Chile) at DocHouse RESISTENCIA: FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA on Saturday 22nd September | Rich Mix Cinema, E1, at 2.30

(Day begins at 12.30 – details http://bit.ly/NpyRO8)

DocHouse presents…

‘RESISTENCIA: Focus on Latin America’

A journey across Latin America today, through revealing documentaries and illuminating discussion.

DAY PASS – £22 / £18 student or concs
SINGLE TICKETS – £7 / £5 student or concs

A panoramic view across Latin America today, from life at the Mexican border, through the Peruvian jungle, and all the way to the streets of Rio.

These outstanding documentaries show the Latin America you don’t see on TV.

No horror stories of drug cartels and gangsters, these award-winning docs and discussions are about the indigenous people of Latin America – from Peru to Brazil to Cuba – those suffering from, and those resisting, the international, corporate exploitation of their land and resources.

Saturday 22nd September

12.30pm ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS – UK PREMIERE – (David Pablos, Mexico, 2010)
Contemplating life on either side of the 2,000 mile wall that separates Mexico from the USA.

+ THE INVISIBLES (Marc Silver & Gael García Bernal, UK/ Mexico, 2010)
Meet migrants on the dangerous journey to the border.


2.30pm LAW OF THE JUNGLE – LONDON PREMIERE – (Michael Christoffersen, Hans la Cour, Denmark, 2012)
A young indigenous leader and his lawyer fight the government and PlusPetrol for his rights and his freedom.

+ PROTEST CHILE (Michael Chanan, UK / Chile, 2011)
Capturing Chile’s mass student demonstrations.


3.10pm CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS (Sebastián Moreno, Chile, 2006)
The story of the fearless Chilean photographers who risked death to record life under Pinochet’s brutal military regime.

+ WITH FIDEL WHATEVER HAPPENS (Goran Radovanovic, Serbia, 2011)
The 52nd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, in the sedate village of Sierra Mastra.


8pm STOLEN LAND – UK PREMIERE – (Margarita Martínez & Miguel Salazar, Colombia, 2010)
The Nasa people of southern Colombia are fighting to reclaim their ancestral land.

Join us for ‘drinks between the docs’ for a taste of Latin America too.  Complimentary Chilean wine provided by TRIO and exotic fruit juices provided by Fruto del Espíritu.


www.dochouse.org 

Screenings of ‘Three Short Films About Chile’

 ‘Three Short Films About Chile‘ by Michael Chanan

BRISTOL
Friday, 24 February
St. Matthias Campus, UWE, Room A123, 5pm.

OXFORD
Saturday 10 March,
Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College, High Street, 3.30pm
as part of ‘Latin American “Third” Cinema and Its Legacies’

¡Protest Chile!

What happens when you privatise a public education system?

PROTEST CHILE

premieres on Saturday 3 December 2011 at
Latin America 2011  A d e l a n t e !
Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1

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also screening on Saturday 10 December at
Roehampton Human Rights Film Festival
University of Roehampton

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A video by Michael Chanan

No to Profit!

Filmed in November 2011.

An account of the huge student protest movement in Chile including
occupations, marches, demonstrations, street actions and web activism
and its impact on the country’s political life as they demand the return of free public education
in place of the most intensely privatised education system in the world

Essential viewing for anyone concerned with the future of
schools and universities in Britain under the plans enacted
and laid in by the Coalition Government

with generous collaboration by

Filmmakers
Renato Dennis, Rodrigo Tossi, Marcos Salazar

Archive
Señal  La Victoria, Revista Vaso

Interviews
Carlos Ossa, Manuel Antonio Garretón
Marcia Tambutti Allende

ICEI Universidad de Chile,
Tiziana Panizza, Carlos Flores

Available Soon!

What happens when you privatise universities: now on video from Chile

The world represented by the mainstream media is still governed by a division into centre and periphery which has been thrown into doubt by recent events—not only the global effects of economic crisis, but the popular protest movements which have sprung up in Europe, the Middle East, and now the USA. It is nowadays the general rule that news from the old periphery, as well as the margins and the interstices of society, arrives in the social media before reaching the mainstream media. It was three or four weeks before Occupy Wall Street was picked up by the mainstream, and predictably it only broke through when cameras on the streets caught the first acts of gratuitous police violence and posted them on the web.

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