An Evening with Citizen Reno
Stream of consciousness political comedy from the creator of Rebel Without a Pause, Reno In Rage and Rehab, The god Show, and other stage and screen classics. Reno is a […]
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Cardboard Chaos Presents: “When the Levee Breaks”
Once again Cardboard Chaos hits the road in its annual tour to help shut down the U.S. Army School ofthe Americas. The show features Uncle Sam’s Little Global Circus and […]
Presenting Diane Wilson
Calling All Unreasonable Women (and the men who support them)! The author of An Unreasonable Woman tells the true story of one woman’s fight to save her town and her […]
Tom Lopez of ZBS Media
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesAs heard on National Public Radio, Tom Lopez will be exploring 35 years of creative independent audio production ranging from comic-cosmic adventures, science fiction and mystical mysteries- some with spiritual […]
Gringo-thon: The Films of Greg Berger
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesGreg Berger's award-winning films and lectures address critical social and political issues concerning grassroots movements in Mexico, as well as relations between the United States and Mexico. His films include […]
“Operation: Dreamland” with Filmmaker Garrett Scott
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesOccupation: Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Fallujah during the winter of 2004. A collective study of […]
“Aftershock: American Voices,” Presented with Members of SUNY Albany’s Campus Greens and Campus Action
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesShot in Washington DC on January 20, 2005, Aftershock: American Voices (Bob Grey, Anne Derwent) chronicles counter inaugural events. It is an inspirational piece featuring such anti-war notables as Celeste […]
Journalist Dahr Jamail of Iraq Dispatches
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesIn late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Al Otro Lado”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThousands of people try to cross the Mexico/U.S. border every year. Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) directed by Natalia Almada, tells the human story behind illegal immigration and drug […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Awake Zion”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesAwake Zion (Monica Haim) is a documentary that explores the unsuspecting connections between Rasta, Reggae, and Judaism, through one woman's beat-laden adventure into the meaning of identity. All the way […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival’s Kathy Brew Presents: “Ryan,” “Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night,” “Phantom Limb”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesMargaret Mead Film and Video Festival co-director Kathy Brew visits The Sanctuary For Independent Media to present a selection of shorts. Ryan is a 2004 Oscar®-winning animated short by Chris Landreth, […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan,” “Children of the Decree”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesBride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Petr Lom, 2005) is the first film to document the custom of bride kidnapping, an ancient marriage tradition in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic in Central […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Home,” with Filmmakers Jeffrey Togman and Pierre Defendini
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesHome (2005) will be presented by director Jeffrey Togman and cinematographer Pierre Defendini. On a gang-controlled, dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Land Mines: A Love Story”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesDennis O'Rourke's latest documentary Land Mines: A Love Story (2004) is part observational and part essay – driven by a polemic that is both angry and subtle, and a damning […]
Steve Kurtz of the Critical Arts Ensemble Speaking on “Art and Discipline”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThis lecture was built upon the following premises: first, any action within the cultural landscape performed from a minoritarian position will be perceived by authority as contestational act; and second, […]
Prison Activist Robina Courtin and “Chasing Buddha”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesChasing Buddha (2000) is a documentary by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson about Robina Courtin, an Australian ex-Catholic, ex-political activist and feminist who has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. […]
“Tying the Knot” with Filmmaker Jim de Séve
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesJim de Séve's 2004 documentary Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan […]
“The Trouble With Music” with Author Mat Callahan
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesMat Callahan's The Trouble with Music (2005) explores the crisis facing music. The signs are everywhere, from the saturation of public space by tuneful trivia to the digital downloading controversy. […]
“Quantum Leaps” with Video Curator Astria Suparak
Quantum leap, a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom), became the title of an […]
Prometheus Radio Project Presents “The Spectrum Roadshow”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThe creation of the Low Power FM radio service stands as one of the greatest successes in recent efforts for grassroots media reform. As a result, hundreds of new low […]
