REAL TO REEL   A Documentary Film Series   Sponsored by Ginger and Stu Polisner

Directed by OLIVER STONE (JFK, Wall Street, Born on the 4th of July)

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Thursday, September 2 at 7:30pm

Guest Speaker: Author and Journalist BART JONES

Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story: From Mud Hut to Perpetual Freedom

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Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region. For more than three decades, Oliver Stone has challenged audiences to rethink historic events. Now after tackling war, Wall Street and the Kennedy assassination, among many other subjects, the three-time Academy-Award winning director has set his sights on the continent of South America and the role the mass media has played in shaping U.S. perceptions and policy. What starts as a road trip through a misunderstood region, becomes an in-depth look at the impact of American foreign policy and the real people and presidents behind the sensational headlines. Through Stone’s up-close-and-personal interviews an alternate history of the South American continent begins to appear; a history of violence and conflict but also a story of powerful elected leaders struggling to help their countries emerge from under the heel of U.S. power.  USA, 2010, 78 min. • Director: Oliver Stone

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PLUNDER: The Crime of Our Time

Thursday, September 23 at 7:30pm

In Person: Filmmaker DANNY SCHECTER

Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story: From Mud Hut to Perpetual Freedom

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Plunder: The Crime of Our Time is a hard-hitting investigative film that explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity. Uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed, Plunder opens with the conviction of Ponzi King Bernie Madoff, whose acknowledged criminality drove a $65 billion dollar pyramid scheme. Director Danny Schecter argues that the wrong doing committed by a few individuals distracts from the real story, implicating the best-known institutions that financed and profited from fraudulent sub prime lending. This connection is now being investigated by the FBI as part of a probe into what it calls a "fraud epidemic." Ultimately the film calls for a full investigation and structural reforms of financial institutions to insure accountability by the white-collar perpetrators who profited from the misery of their victims. USA, 2010, 78 min.