Social Cinema Film

Wednesday, February 15, 7pm
Is sugar the new tobacco? Sugar Coated (directed by Michèle Hozer) takes an eye-opening look at the public relations campaigns that the multi-billion dollar food industry has waged to discredit and distract from mounting scientific evidence about the toxicity of sugar.

Wednesday, February 22, 7pm
Starting on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, as the community grapples with the death of Michael Brown, Do Not Resist (directed by Craig Atkinson) offers a stunning look at the militarization of policing in America and a glimpse into the future.

Wednesday, March 1, 7pm
The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost (directed by Andrew Morgan) pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?

Wednesday, March 8, 7pm
As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In Seed: The Untold Story (directed by Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel), these heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.

Wednesday, March 15, 7pm
The Occupation of the American Mind (directed by Jeremy Earp and Loretta Alper) explores how the Israeli and US governments and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces to shape US media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Monday, November 26, 6:30pm
The Organizer (a film by Nick Taylor and Joey Carey) is a portrait of Wade Rathke, the controversial founder of ACORN, as well as an exploration of that much maligned and misunderstood occupation – community organizing.

Wednesday, March 21, 6:45pm
All across America, thousands of rape kits sit in storage, untested, uninvestigated, and ignored, while rape victims are disregarded by the system that promises to bring them justice. I Am Evidence (directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Trish Adlesic) explores how and why this happened and how all of us can be agents for the changes that must be made.

Wednesday, March 14, 6:45pm
In A Plastic Ocean (directed by Craig Leeson), a journalist teams up with environmental activists and an international team of scientists and researchers, who travel to twenty locations around the world to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.

Wednesday, March 7, 6:45pm
Shot below the radar, Complicit (directed by Heather White and Lynn Zhang) follows the journey of Chinese migrant factory-worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, who takes his fight against the global electronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage, confronting some of the world’s largest corporations, including Apple, Samsung, and Foxconn.

Wednesday, February 28, 6:45pm
A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the “sharing economy” to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco’s future. Company Town (directed by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow) shows how a grassroots coalition of unions, tenants, neighborhoods of color, activists and artists can come together and win.