CCGS Movie Fest - Spring 2007
This spring semester the Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality (CCGS), a program of the Sonoma Student Union, will screen a documentary film weekly to highlight several topics, including but not limited to: same-sex/gendered marriage, multiple identities, media, and sexual violence. We hope that these films will provoke thoughtful discussion among students and increase awareness and education on campus.
Race: The Power of an Illusion
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Erin Fisher Room, Sonoma Student Union
What does science have to say about the concept of biological race? How do social institutions today shape and create race?
(2003) 3 episodes - 56 minutes each
California Newsreel - Official Film Website
PBS Website - Facilitator Guide
Tongues Untied
February 8, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Erin Fisher Room, Sonoma Student Union
Derogatory accusations, judgments, and jokes in our culture are met head-on by this video about black, male, and gay identity. Poetry, personal testimony, and drama unite to oppose the homophobia and racism that attempt to split a person into opposing loyalties.
(1990) 55 minutes
Wikipedia - Tongues Untied
Queer Cultural Center - Review of Tongues Untied
Queer Cultural Center - Marlon T. Riggs, Director - Bio
Lost Boys of Sudan
February 15, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
(2003) 87 minutes
Official Movie Website
Lost and Found: Orphaned Sudanese Refugees Come to America
What's Race Got to Do with It?
February 22, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
This film chronicles the experiences of Berkeley undergraduate college students enrolled in "Facing you, facing me," a 16 week intergroup dialog on race and class and its impact on lives in 2005.
(2006) 49 minutes
Official Film Website with Facilitator Resources
Killing Us Softly 3
March 1, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Erin Fisher Room, Sonoma Student Union
Discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on their images of themselves.
(1999) 34 minutes
Transparent
March 8, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
Looks at 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few cases, gone on to raise their biological children.
(2004) 61 minutes
Promises
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
Follows the journey of a filmmaker who travels in and around Jerusalem, from a Palestinian refugee camp to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children who exist in completely separate worlds, divided by physical, historical and emotional boundaries.
(2001) 106 minutes
The Grace Lee Project
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
Delightful documentary "The Grace Lee Project" chronicles the eponymous helmer's quest to discover why so many Asian-American women share her name and whether they really embody the boringly "nice" racial stereotype she herself has always loathed.
(2005) 68 minutes
The Future of Food
March 29, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
In-depth investigation into unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat.
(2004) 88 minutes
Fronterilandia
April 5, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
Using a variety of techniques, including experimental film and documentary travelogue, this film explores the borderlands experience.
(1996) 77 minutes
My Family
April 19, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Erin Fisher Room, Sonoma Student Union
Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans.
(1995) 128 minutes
NO!
April 26, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
The groundbreaking feature-length documentary that unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities.
(2006) 94 minutes
Baraka
May 3, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
A world wide odyssey to capture the images which transcend language to tell the story of the earth's evolution and of human diversity, interconnectedness between humans and nature, and our impact on the surrounding world. Shot in 24 countries on six continents.
(1992) 96 minutes
The End of Suburbia
May 10, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Erin Fisher Room, Sonoma Student Union
Through interviews with scientists and policy makers this documentary
explores the premise that American suburbs, built on the easy availability of fossil fuels, may become untenable.
(2004) 78 minutes
Tying the Knot
May 17, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room, Sonoma Student Union
Documentary on same-sex marriage which provides a historical and legal perspective.
(2004) 82 minutes
