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The ubiquitous use of
plastics in Bag It
streets, to their many fl amboyant characters,
to their political activism and fi nally to Jools’
battle with breast cancer.
Director Leanne Pooley weaves
together live performances and interviews
with the Topp Twins and their alter egos,
as well as talks with numerous satirists,
comedians and friends, to give a full picture
of these effervescent Kiwis turned gay
icons. Viewers watch the duo overcome
several hardships with a laugh and a yodel.
Between Two Worlds
In 2009, the San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival was caught in a whirlwind of
controversy: Organizers decided to screen
Rachel, a documentary about American
activist and, in some circles, political martyr
Rachel Corrie. Twenty-three-year-old
Corrie was run over by a bulldozer in 2003
while protesting the demolition of homes
in Gaza. What followed the controversial
screening was an intense debate about the
very meaning of being Jewish.
feature candid interviews from rabbis,
students, political activists and other
members of the Jewish community as they
struggle to talk about these issues.
Filmmakers
Alan
Snitow
and
Deborah Kaufman come from different
backgrounds. Kaufman’s father, a veteran
of WWII, helped liberate a concentration
camp in Buchenwald. An ardent Zionist,
he believed a Jewish state was necessary
for the preservation of his people. Snitow’s
mother was a former communist who
viewed the Soviet Union as a social utopia
before becoming an important Jewish
political fi gure in the United States. Two
different political upbringings, yet both
explicitly Jewish.
This documentary creates an open
dialogue about Israel and American Jewish
identity. Is airing a fi lm about a woman
protesting Israeli policy inherently anti-
Semitic? Is unquestioning support of Israel a
requisite for being truly Jewish? Is building
a Holocaust museum on the site of an
800-year-old Muslim cemetery acceptable
behavior?
Although Between Two Worlds may not
defi nitively answer these questions, it does
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Bag it
Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every
fi ve minutes. This is the problem Jeb Berrier
initially confronts in Bag It, a documentary
that later turns into an exploration of the
ubiquitous use of plastic and its effects on
both our society and the environment.
Plastic is a nice, cheap polymer popularized
in the 1960s. We think of it as packaging
material, bags or toys, but as Berrier shows,
it’s also used in tin cans, the lining of soap
containers and much, much more. Plastic
doesn’t naturally break down. It’s fi lling our
oceans. It’s fi lling our landfi lls. And most
people don’t even know what it is made of.
Bag It follows Berrier as he seeks out ways
to deal with the problem: First, by not using
plastic bags; next by analyzing the different
varieties of plastic and the ambiguous way
they are listed on products; then ending with
a plea to simply cut back on consumption.
Berrier talks with many like-minded experts,
continuously complains about his inability to
get an interview with anyone inside the plastic
industry and American Chemical Council,
and includes footage of him attempting to get
a drive-thru fast food joint to let him eat their
food on his own plate.
Berrier also goes into a lengthy
investigation of the safety of plastic in
baby products as he gets ready to become
a father. Bag It isn’t so much about plastic
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as it is about a man’s quest for answers as
he discovers just how much of his life is
centered around this synthetic material.
And the Rest
Director Carl Fechner follows the work
of individuals across ten different countries
as they try to attain the common goal of
energy autonomy in The 4th Revolution:
Energy Autonomy. There are few, if any,
more pressing global issues facing the
future of humankind, and this documentary
provides valuable insight into the efforts to
achieve this dream.
There aren’t many reputations that have
been more damaged by the passage of time,
the changing of mindsets and the increase
of information than that of Christopher
Columbus. Even the Rain starts with a
director attempting to make a fi lm about
Columbus as a conquering imperialist.
The producer moves it to Bolivia in order
to cut costs, and instead they discover a
country in upheaval as the government
tries to privatize the water supply. The
exploitation of indigenous people hardly
ended with Columbus.
The centerpiece fi lm and discussion
of the Great Works Film Festival will be
Light in the Darkness, the third fi lm in the
Not In Our Town series. This fi lm follows
the mayor and residents of Patchogue, NY,
as they try to address the underlying causes
of the violent attacks on the members of
the town’s Latino community.
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The Good Works Film Festival plays Oct. 7-10 at several
locations; for information, visit goodworks.festivalgenius.com
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