Landlocked Film Festival to Screen Political and Social Issue Movies
By Landlocked Film Festival
Landlocked
Film Festival Free Movies! Documentary, Narrative, Animation From 2
minutes to 2 hours long showing at the Englert Theatre, Iowa City
Public Library, Sheraton & hotelVetro Showing August 21 – 24, Iowa
City
KING IN
CHICAGO (77 min) Showing August 21, 2008 Thursday, 8:00 pm Englert
Theatre Candid interviews, period photos, and stirring music shine a
light on the struggle for justice by Dr. Martin Luther King and the
Chicago Freedom Movement.
AMERICAN
IDEALIST: THE STORY OF SARGENT SHRIVER (88 min) Showing August 22, 2008
Friday, 2:30 pm Englert Theatre From the summit of privilege and power,
Sargent Shriver?s ability to dare a nation to live out its most
revolutionary ideals is explored.
PIPELINE
(102 min) Showing August 22, 2008 Friday, 1:00 pm Iowa City Public
Library Room A Focusing on the instability of home life for at-risk
students from the inner city, this documentary explores the cradle to
prison pipeline.
NO
VACANCY (91 min) Showing August 22, 2008 Friday, 2:55 pm Iowa
City Public Library Room A This documentary chronicles the education,
health and contraceptive needs required before couples have replacement
size families and the actions that are taking place around the world to
achieve population stabilization.
THE LIFE
PENALTY (74 min) Showing August 22, 2008 Friday, 4:30 pm Iowa City
Public Library Room A Slip into a juror's seat as David Wymore and
other nationally recognized criminal defense attorneys bring their
fight against the death penalty to the front line: the courtroom.
RABIA
(24 min) Showing August 22, 2008 Friday, 6:45 pm Iowa City Public
Library Room A This fictional movie is loosely based on the true-life
story of the first Palestinian female suicide bomber.
VACCINE
NATION (90 min) Showing August 23, 2008 Saturday, 10:30 am Sheraton
Hotel Johnson Room The dangers of vaccines and their direct
relationship to autoimmune diseases, infections, allergies and an
unprecedented increase in developmental learning and behavioral
disorders in children are the focus of this documentary.
KATRINA'S
CHILDREN (85 min) Showing August 23, 2008 Saturday, 12:15 pm Sheraton
Hotel Johnson Room This engrossing film explores the impact of
Hurricane Katrina from the point of view of diverse children in New
Orleans.
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