Well, were back!

Sorta.

MTM is looking for a new venue for awhile while the Centro reorganizes (loooong story), so check this space for our updates!

FREE SCREENING ALERT: 9500 Liberty

The San Diego Asian Film Festival is doing a free screening of:

9500 Liberty

9500 LIBERTY reveals the devastating social and economic impact of the “Immigration Resolution,” felt in the lives of real people in homes and in local businesses. But the ferocious fight to adopt and then reverse this policy unfolds inside government chambers, on the streets, and on the Internet. 9500 LIBERTY provides a front row seat to all three battlegrounds.

Directors Eric Byler and Annabel Park are scheduled to attend

	Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time:	7:00am - 10:00am
Location:	Jacobs Center 404 Euclid Ave San Diego, CA 92114
Street:	404 Euclid Ave

ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: THE VILLA GRIMALDI

Movies that Matter is observing 9/11 - 1973 and post 9/11 with a screening of the amazing and moving documentary Archeology of Memory: the Villa Grimaldi, directed by Marilyn Mulford (Freedom on My Mind).

We're screening the festival version with a short and a roundtable discussion about human rights, civil rights and extraordinary rendition with Amnesty International, Survivors of Torture International and the ACLU.

Archeology of Memory is the extraordinary story of Bay Area-based
multimedia artist and musician Quique Cruz

who was arrested, disappeared and tortured under Pinochet shortly after the fall of Allende while still a teenager. He was later expelled to the US where he rebuilt his identity and slowly, painfully started to address what had happened to him.

Archeology of Memory "follows our major protagonist to Chile and the back to the U. S. in a unique journey as he navigates a landscape of state sponsored torture, forced exile, transformation and healing. We accompany Claudio as he visits former concentration camp sites and ruins, and talks to his mother about his disappearance and incarceration for the first time in thirty years. To help tell his story, he searches for artist friends who were incarcerated with him. In these intimate conversations—with writer Nubia Becker, poet Anita Moreira and painter Guillermo Nuñez—we see these artists, and their art, as they re-tell their experiences as political prisoners and talk of how they use their art for healing." (http://www.archeologyofmemory.org/the_film_synopsis.html)

Join us for a powerful story about the triumph of art and music over torture and government betrayal.

09/11/09
7 pm
$7

Centro Cultural de la Raza
2004 Park Blvd
Balboa Park

Here is a trailer for Friday's main feature. Poets Without Borders is not on Youtube yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2KDtSct23Q

Screening Friday, May 22 at 7 pm:

M vies That Matter
presents:



PALESTINE BLUES


The farmers of Jayous have 24 hours
before the Israelis raze their orchards...
Will they be able to save their beloved olive trees?

Join us for
Movies that Matter
Friday May 22, 2009, 7 pm, $5
Post-film Roundtable discussion with
Doris Bittar, Arab-American Painter, Activist
Miko Peled, Israeli Anti-Occupation Activist

Centro Cultural de la Raza
2004 Park Blvd, Balboa Park
For more info:moviesthatmatter@hotmail.com