BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2007

The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. We are into all styles of bikes and biking. If you can name it-Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents- we've probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance? We bring together all aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways. Ultimately the Fest is about having a good time.
We have been fortunate enough to include works of established artists such as Jorgen Leth, Mike Mills, Jonas Mekas, Blonde Redhead, Swoon and Michel Gondry among others as part of our programming. Many of the artists who have participated in the Bike Film Fest such as Nick Golebiewski, the Neistat Brothers and Lucas Brunelle are gaining more and more re-cognition for their work. For more info visit www.bicyclefilmfestival.com

BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2007
THE VINE THEATRE, HOLLYWOOD 90028
June 28th through July 1st - check website for times - Admission: $8 per movie

www.bicyclefilmfestival.com

Ride your Bike! or Metro Red Line (Hollywood/Vine)
www.bikemetro.com
www.socaltransport.org

AYAMYE

Millions of rural Ghanaians suffer from a critical lack of reliable, affordable transport. Walking miles through the heat or spending 50% of their income on carfare has crippled many communities. The rural way of life is in crisis as many people leave their villages in hopes of better options in the capital city of Accra. When sustainable transportation is introduced it becomes a tool of development, enabling people to generate and save money. Education, health care and jobs become accessible without having to leave permanently.
Ayamye* begins in Boston where volunteers work for two days loading a container with donated used bikes and parts. Through skillful packing, 450 bikes are loaded and the container is sent to Ghana, West Africa. The majority of the bikes are sold in a colorful frenzy to pay for shipping costs, while the best bikes are set aside to take to a rural community with limited transportation options.

Nurse Letitia struggles to master riding a bike, so that she can administer vaccinations in neighboring communities. A bike is loaned to her by a friend and she is determined to learn, training for hours in the middle of the biggest rainstorm of the decade. “I will learn, I know I can learn,” she says as she maneuvers the bike through mud. Her enthusiasm is so pervasive another nurse declares, “Nurse Letitia will teach me to ride also!”
Seth, too poor to afford secondary school, works on a poultry farm almost every day of the year. The poultry farm is located far from his village and friends. Through The Village Bicycle Project he receives a bicycle. With his bike he saves time in commuting – allowing him to contribute to the growth of the Youth Drama Group – reaching out to the Ghanaian youth with plays about HIV/Aids, Malaria and family planning.

A year later the film catches up with the community to see if the bikes are still maintained and how the long term effect of mobility has improved their situation in life, and in turn the development of the village.

Ayamye* celebrates the energy of the community and proves that sustainable solutions to crisis are not always complex. Goodness, kindness and bounty can go far to empower not just individuals but entire villages.

*Goodness, Kindness, Generosity (in TWI)

AYAMYE
June 30 - 7:30 pm - Admission: $8

www.ayamye.org

www.bicyclefilmfestival.com

Ride your Bike! or Metro Red Line (Hollywood/Vine)
www.bikemetro.com
www.socaltransport.org

Held annually in June, Film Independent’s Los Angeles Film Festival showcases the best of American and International cinema over the course of 11 days. We screen more then 250 features, documentaries, shorts, and music videos. For 2007, we are introducing new features on Broxton Avenue including live musical performances, free outdoor screenings, and more. Now in its 13th year and with attendance upwards of 80,000 filmgoers, the Festival has grown into a world-class event uniting new and established filmmakers with the movie-loving public.

LA FILM FESTIVAL 2007
WESTWOOD VILLAGE, WESTWOOD
June 21ST through July 1st - check website for times - Admission: Ticket prices vary

www.lafilmfest.com

Ride your Bike! or Metro Bus 2, 20, 21, 305 or DASH 720, 761
www.bikemetro.com
www.socaltransport.org

Take the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus 1, 2, 3, and 8
www.bigbluebus.com

Or the Culver City Bus Line 6/Aviation Green Line via Culver City via Sepulveda Blvd.
www.culvercity.org/depts_bus

GREAT TO BE NOMINATED PART FOUR

The “Great To Be Nominated” series, featuring the picture from each Academy Awards year that received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture award, continues throughout the spring and summer. Each evening will also include animated and live action short subjects, original advertising trailers, outtakes and other surprises to offer up a snapshot of that particular year. The very best prints available will be screened at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, one of the finest screening facilities in the world.

GREAT TO BE NOMINATED SERIES
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE, BH. CA 90211
Ongoing - 7:30 p.m. - Admission: $5

www.oscars.org

Ride your Bike! or Metro Bus 20, 21 or DASH 720
www.bikemetro.com
www.socaltransport.org

TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE

Heat waves. Melting glaciers. Rising sea levels. Catastrophic storms. Migrating viruses. Population displacement. Over the past 100 years, the mass consumption of fossil fuels, especially in America, has contributed to a dangerous warming of the earth that has adversely impacted the way we live. The cautionary documentary TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States.

www.movies2.nytimes.com

HOMELAND - Four Portraits of Native Action

Having brutally occupied the homeland of Native Americans, the invading Europeans forced the indigenous population onto reservations - land that was specifically selected because of its apparent worthlessness.
To add salt to wounds that are still open, multinational energy companies and others are coming back to extract the hidden mineral wealth of the reservations, and are leaving a trail of toxins that, if unchecked, will make the land unlivable for centuries to come.
But Native American activists are fighting back, and their inspirational stories are chronicled in "HOMELAND: Four Portraits of Native Action" against the backdrop of some of the country's most spectacular landscapes.

www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/hland.html

THE POWER OF COMMUNITY - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.

www.powerofcommunity.org

WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?

It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert?
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business...

www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar.html

Read up on Grist'sspecial series on Biofuels

INVISIBLE CHILDREN

This is a must see for everyone! I was so moved by this documentary, I was so shocked and I was so touched by it, that I have to recommend it! This documentary was shot by 3 guys from USC. They went to Africa to film something. They didn't know what they were going to document, so they were open to any story that came their way. And one night they discovered what they were looking for.
INVISIBLE CHILDREN is going to grip you, inspire you, make you laugh, and make you cry. These three guys' lives have been changed forever and they are now on a mission.
See the trailer, see the movie, see Africa! Be inspired!

www.invisiblechildren.com

CONTESTED STREETS

CONTESTED STREETS explores the history and culture of New York City streets from pre-automobile times to the present. This examination allows for an understanding of how the city - though the most well served by mass transit in the United States - has slowly relinquished what was a rich, multi-dimensional conception of the street as public space to a mindset that prioritizes the rapid movement of cars and trucks over all other functions.

www.contestedstreets.com

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

This is a movie that every person on this planet should see! This movie is very poignant, touching, engaging, and moving. It is a smart movie, that will hopefully hit some spots and change us as a nation and us individuals.
Right now this movie is only playing at selected Theaters, but maybe it's demand will grow, and more Theaters will pick it up.
Buy the movie, and screen it alongside the freeway on a big building, where commuters could see it. Or screen it on a building wall from a rooftop, so passer-by's and cars at red lights can be entertained. Be inventive! Screen it where it's least expected. Where it's most exposed!

www.climatecrisis.net

CLASSICS, INDEPENDENT FILMS, AND EUROPEAN AND ASIAN FAVORITES!
1978 – Present: The Beverly Cinema is nearing it’s twenty-fifth anniversary as Los Angeles’ last remaining fulltime revival cinema. The “Beverly” has been screening repertory double bills continuously since it opened in May, 1978.
The program has been a consistent presentation of two films each day, with a new double feature three times weekly. The variety of pairings runs the gamut from old Hollywood classics, recent independent film, European and Asian favorites, to the occasional silent or animated feature; Scorsese to Eisenstein with Hitchcock and Godard thrown in...

CLASSICS, INDEPENDENT FILMS, AND EUROPEAN AND ASIAN FAVORITES!
NEW BEVERLY CINEMA, Los Angeles, 90036
Check website for times - all double features $7

www.beverlycinema.com

Metro Bus 14
www.bikemetro.com
www.socaltransport.org

CEMETERY SCREENINGS
Cinespia is a film society created to bring together the community of film enthusiasts in Los Angeles. Angelenos are still enthusiastic about cinema's great films, including those outside the normal repertory. Bring your blankets, picnic dinner and drinks for this special screening below and above the stars. There will be a DJ spinning records before and after the screening. It will be a blast, and another fun adventure.

CEMETERY SCREENINGS
HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY, Los Angeles, 90038
Gates open at 7:30 pm, film starts at 9 pm - Adm: $10 donation

www.cemeteryscreenings.com

Ride your Bike! or Metro Bus 4
www.bikemetro.com
www.socaltransport.org

TUESDAY MATINEES AT LACMA
Every Tuesday at 1 p.m., the museum presents a classic film from the Warner Bros./Turner Entertainment Company's library.

TUESDAY MATINEES AT LACMA
LACMA, Los Angeles, 90036
Tuesdays at 1 pm - Adm: $2

www.lacma.org/programs

Ride your Bike! or Metro Bus 20, 21, 720
www.bikemetro.com
www.socaltransport.org