An Evening With
Wandering Reel Traveling Film Festival
PROGRAM C: JUSTICE BENDS
Description: Martin Luther King Jr said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." But how long must it bend? Six shorts explore this question and more.
Film Lineup:
"Water Warriors"
The story of a community's fight to protect their water from the oil and natural gas industry.
Documentary ~ 22 minutes
"Charlie"
Four decades after hijacking a plane to Cuba to avoid charges of killing a state trooper, a former black power militant reflects on his past in a letter to his nine-year-old Cuban son.
Documentary ~ 13 minutes
"Lazercism"
A riff on “racial glaucoma,” a disease affecting white people that prevents them from seeing the contributions of people of color.
Narrative ~ 5 minutes
"Minerita"
Cerro Rico in Potosí (Bolivia) is a lawless territory, characterized by brutal violence. The miners risk their lives every day, digging for silver and zinc in crumbling galleries. The ones that survive think they’re entitled to anything and everything. And that’s when they go on the hunt... for women.
Documentary ~ 27 minutes
"Laps"
On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.
Narrative ~ 6 minutes
"The 5th Season"
Ziad Khadash, a graduate of the refugee camp Jalazone, is a Palestinian writer who teaches creative writing at an elementary school in Ramallah. He teaches his pupils about freedom, to rebel against their education system and to defy the rules of the school. More than anything- he wants to bring them to this sea, the big sea.
Documentary ~ 15 minutes
Screening followed by Q&A with festival director, and Portland resident, Michael Harrington.
Tickets: $5 student/$10 regular suggested donation