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movie play times    Social Justice Education Project Short Films Screening - FREE The revolution will be shown on film! See student-made shorts addressing some of today’s pressing social issues. The shorts include: “The 20/20 Vision Film,” “Stop Payday Loans,” and “Rescuing Education.” These films are brought to you by the Social Justice Education Project, in conjunction with the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership, the Primavera Foundation, and Voices for Education. Oct 14  (7pm)    WRC/LGBTQ Affairs: Laramie Inside Out: Women's Resource Center Film Series - FREE October 2008 marks the tenth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death. In memory of that sad milestone, the Office of LGBTQ Affairs at the UA will present a free screening of the 2004 documentary "Laramie Inside Out", followed by a discussion of the murder's lasting repercussions. Laramie Inside Out In October 1998, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die. His shocking murder pushed Laramie into the media spotlight and sparked a nationwide debate about homophobia, gay-bashing and hate crimes. Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger, a Laramie native, returns home to the site of her own closeted adolescence to investigate the impact of Shepard's murder. Oct 15  (7-8:30pm)    Advertising and the End of the World: Social Justice Film Series - FREE Does the economy have you down? The Center for Student Involvement & leadership is hosting a social justice film series focused on economic impact. Films will address topics ranging from the effect of globalization and consumerism to the impact of rising college tuition. Advertising and the End of the World Sut Jhally presents a compelling and accessible argument about consumerism and its impact on the earth’s future. This presentation challenges students to re-evaluate their own everyday practices and invites us all to re-examine our commitment to future generations. Oct 16  (1 & 5pm)    Midnight Sneak Peek of Max Payne - FREE Come join us at Gallagher Theater for a Midnight sneak peek of Max Payne. Max Payne Based on the legendary hard hitting interactive video game, Max Payne tells the story of a maverick cop determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max (Mark Wahlberg) is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal. Oct 16  (11:45pm)    Borderline Cases: Sustainability Film Series - FREE In partnership with the Honors College, the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership presents a semester of sustainability. See a wide range of films provoking thought around social, economic, and environmental concerns. Borderline Cases This film investigates the environmental impact of the nearly 2,000 factories - maquiladoras - that have been built in Mexico at the US-Mexico border by multinational corporations from the US, Asia and Europe. In the early rush to globalization these factories, whose workers are paid a fraction of US wages, did not need to comply with costly environmental regulations. The result, according to one reporter, is that the border became "a 2,000 mile long open sewer, a vast toxic waste dump." This documentary essay describes the consequences of 25 years of environmental neglect, the results of five years of earnest activity and promises made for the future. Oct 20  (7pm)    Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Elizondo Griest performs Mexican Enough - FREE Join Hispanic Heritage Month's keynote speaker, Stephanie Elizondo Griest as she shares her journey to understand her culutral identity. Through travels and interviews in her mother's native Mexico, Ms. Griest will discuss how she came to the realization that she wasn't alone in questioning her own Mexicanidad. The keynote includes a performance from her forthcoming memoir: Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Boderlines, followed by a book signing in the UA BookStore. Sponsored by: Parents & Family Association, Center for Student Involvement & Leadership, Women's Resource Center, and ASUA Oct 23  (5pm)    Buyer be Fair: Sustainability Film Series - FREE In partnership with the Honors College, the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership presents a semester of sustainability. See a wide range of films provoking thought around social, economic, and environmental concerns. Buyer be Fair Under the auspices of the WTO, globalization of world trade seems like a juggernaut that will not be stopped. But is there a way to make trade FAIR? How can retailers and consumers use their purchasing power and market choice to make the world better for people and the environment? What is the promise of product certification and labeling? The film looks at two major trade goods -- timber and coffee -- to find out how certification works and whether it helps the world's poor, and their lands. Can the lessons from certification of timber, by the Forest Stewardship Council, and coffee, by Fair Trade, be applied to other products? This film takes viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, the USA and Canada, where compelling stories and characters raise and answer these questions in a powerful documentary that explores new ways to make globalization work for all of us. Nov 03  (7pm)    Lesbian Grandmothers are from Mars: Women's Resource Center Film Series - FREE In partnership with the Women’s Resource Center, the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership is proud to offer a woman’s issues film series. Films will address an array of issues, spanning everything from oppression to body image. Lesbian Grandmothers are from Mars It's an out-of-this-world story about a down-to-earth lesbian couple who got on their bicycles and rode 3,800 miles across America to rally support for same-sex marriage. From San Francisco to New York City, Elisia and Carrie Ross-Stone -- two married lesbian grandmothers (from Mars Pennsylvania!) ride across mountain ranges, through deserts and across prairies, as they struggle through the mud-slinging of election year politics, hateful protests and even death threats to show America that they're not alien life forms! Nov 05  (7pm)    Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Social Justice Film Series - FREE Does the economy have you down? The Center for Student Involvement & leadership is hosting a social justice film series focused on economic impact. Films will address topics ranging from the effect of globalization and consumerism to the impact of rising college tuition. Mickey Mouse monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power The Walt Disney Company’s animated films are almost universally lauded as wholesome family entertainment enjoyed by all ages. Mickey Mouse monopoly takes a close look at the world these films create (in terms of the stories told about race, gender and class). Including interviews with cultural critics, media scholars, college students and children. Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasures. Nov 06  (1 & 5pm)    Batman: The Dark Knight - $3 A perfect way to spend your Halloween weekend. See the most highly acclaimed Batman yet, with stunning performances by Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Morgan Freeman. Check out the trailer at http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com. Nov 14  (7 & 10pm) Nov 15  (7 & 10pm) Nov 16  (1pm)    Everything's Cool: Sustainability Film Series - FREE In partnership with the Honors College, the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership presents a semester of sustainability. See a wide range of films provoking thought around social, economic, and environmental concerns. Everything's Cool This is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific deception, a group of global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the United States from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy- and fast. The film follows the country and our global warming messengers though an extraordinary three years of transformation, from 2003 to the eve of 2007. Nov 17  (7pm)    Trained in the Ways of Men: Women's Resource Center Film Series - FREE In partnership with the Women’s Resource Center, the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership is proud to offer a woman’s issues film series. Films will address an array of issues, spanning everything from oppression to body image. Trained in the Ways of Men "Please don't. I have a family..." were her last words. In October 2002, her picture appeared to the nation, from CNN to the New York Times, her sultry eyes seeming to tease us to discover who she is. When four men discover that 17-year-old Gwen Araujo, the girl with whom they had been intimate, was biologically male, they beat and strangled her to death. They were arrested for the murder two weeks later, claiming they acted in the heat of passion, provoked by what they saw as Gwen's deceit. Shelly Prevost s powerful documentary explores the controversial events surrounding the violent murder of Gwen Araujo in Newark, California a murder that shocked the country when it made national headlines. Nov 19  (7pm)    Mamma Mia Sing-along - $3 You know all of ABBA's greatest hits, so join in for the Sing-Along Edition of Mamma Mia! You've practiced in your room and your shower enough - and when college is done, this is one memory you will want in your scrapbook. Check out the trailer and more at www.mammamiamovie.com. Nov 21  (7 & 10p) Nov 22  (7 & 10p) Nov 23  (1p)    Thin: Women's Resource Center Film Series - FREE In partnership with the Women’s Resource Center, the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership is proud to offer a woman’s issues film series. Films will address an array of issues, spanning everything from oppression to body image. Thin Thin takes us inside the walls of Renfrew Center, a residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders, closely following four young women (ages 15 - 30) who have spent their lives starving themselves often to the verge of death. The film deftly chronicles the pervasiveness of restrictive eating behaviors (most of the women profiled learned dysfunctional eating habits from their mothers while growing up), as well as the failure of our current health-insurance industry to address its clients' needs, while never shifting focus from the women themselves. Director Lauren Greenfield documents with astonishing depth the daily rituals, spontaneous friendships and startling swings between recovery and relapse that make up life at the center. The result is a powerful new insight into one of our society's most insidious open secrets. Dec 03  (7pm)    In Debt we Trust: Social Justice Film Series - FREE Does the economy have you down? The Center for Student Involvement & leadership is hosting a social justice film series focused on economic impact. Films will address topics ranging from the effect of globalization and consumerism to the impact of rising college tuition. In Debt We Trust This hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans – college and high school students in particular- are being strangled by debt. Danny Schecter shows how more and more college students are being forced to pay higher and higher interest on loans while graduating, on average, with more that 20,000 in consumer debt. Dec 04  (1 & 5pm)

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