John Pilger Film Retrospective
In preparation for appearance of the world-renowned journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, at our campus next week, a sample of 3 of the over 60 films in the Pilger archive are offered for the REEL audience. Come see one or all!
When: Wednesday, October 29th – 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Where: Eagle Room at Town & Country Center – Northwest College
11:00 a.m. Welcome to Australia: The Secret Shame Behind the Sydney Olympics (1999)
(50 min) With focus on sports and the Sydney Olympics, John Pilger and Alan Lowery take a look at Australia’s Aborigines who are still excluded, impoverished and mistreated, while their part in the brilliant history of Australia’s sports successes goes virtually unrecognized.
12:30 p.m. Inside Burma: Land of Fear (Updated 1999)
(52 min) John Pilger goes undercover in one of the world’s most isolated and extraordinary countries, Burma, which Amnesty International calls ‘a prison without bars’. They discover slave labour preparing for tourism and foreign investment. Historic interview with Aung San Suu Kyi.
1:30 p.m. South Africa: Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)
(90 min) John Pilger describes how despite the promise of social change and democracy in South Africa, economic apartheid that is a pattern in much of the world remains in South Africa - and how resistance has begun again in the country where apartheid was said to be in the past.
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