Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required).
http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film
Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer film, Interrupted Memory, on memory and politics in Argentina and Chile, coming soon.
A new online journal from Colombia, Corónica, has posted a short interview with me on video, made by Juan Soto, called ‘9 Notes on Digital Cinema’. (In Spanish and English, with subtitles.)
[vimeo 48867239]
It accompanies my film on the students protests in Chile, ‘Three Short Films about Chile’.
http://cine.revistacoronica.com/2012/09/tres-cortos-sobre-chile-por-michael.html
which Javier Toloza writes about here (in Spanish):
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)
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.
‘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’
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!
“Last autumn, in response to the coalition’s spending cuts, Britain saw the emergence of the first mass protest movement in a generation. One result has been an outpouring of online video, giving a very different picture to the one presented by the mainstream media, but making it hard sometimes to see the wood for the trees.
To that end, the New Statesman is pleased to announce a collaboration with the documentary film-maker Michael Chanan, who has been filming some of the events fuelling the protest movement. Focusing on the arts, both within and outside academia, he is building up a picture of the movement as it develops.”
Watch these videos here. Read my blog about the project: Video Blogging for the New Statesman: Camera in hand and idea in the head.