Activist Film Festival
The first Activist Film Festival was a huge hit! We will be announcing 2012 plan next week, welcoming submissions for short and feature length activist documentatries. Thank you to all audience members, volunteers, film makers, artists, suppliers and venue for a great gig. Announcement next week. Cheers - Colman
Activist Film Festival 
Independent film, music, fashion and art.
Sunday 5th June (World Environment Day)
Tribal Cinema, 346 George St Brisbane
Tickets Still Available to all sessions
$15 any movie + 5 bands + street art expo at door. BYO Beer & Wine ( Venue charges $5 corkage)
Program includes Australian Premieres of If A Tree Falls and The Green Wave fresh from Sundance 2011, along with emerging Bris-bands showcase.
Summary Program:
10:00 am: Gasland, view trailer, special World Environment Day screening of the 2011 Academy Award Nomination for Best Feature Documentary. Gasland provokes questions about the immediate impact of coal seam gas drilling on the health of our Great Artesian Basin, food supply and land long term. Intro speaker Drew Hutton
11:30 Music - Daisie May ( Pauline Maudy Music )
1 pm: The Green Wave, view trailer, Australian premiere direct from Sundance 2011, a documentary about the crushed peoples uprising in Iran that started the democratization of the Middle East. Based on collected blogs, emails and tweets of a new generation seeking transparency of governance in Iran, it will be introduced with reference to support for Wikileaks and the implied threat to established democracy elsewhere. Intro speaker TBC.
2:30pm: Music - Jason Lowe
3:30 pm: If A Tree Falls, view trailer, Australian Premiere of the Sundance 2011 award winner for documentary editing. This is the untold story of the Earth Liberation Front. IF A TREE FALLS explores the tumultuous period from 1995 until early 2001 when environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law enforcement, and the word "terrorism" had not yet been altered by 9/11. Intro speaker TBC.
5pm: Music - Lunch Tapes
3pm and 6pm: Exit Through The Gift Shop, view trailer, A Banksy
Film and 2011 Academy Award Nominee for Best Feature Documentary. Go behind the scenes of street art and follow the rise of once hounded street kids to the top of the art world. Question our civic norms as outlaw turns into most sought after exhibition ticket? Plus special short film edits of Banksy B Movie and Mr Brain Wash: Life Remote Control. Introduction: Prof Tony Fry, Queensland College Of Art, Griffith University
6pm: Restrepo, View TRAILER, In honour of photo journalist and co-director of Restrepo, Tim
Hetherington, recently killed on front line of Libya. RESTREPO chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, considered the most dangerous place on Earth. The movie provides an experiential perspective of the remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. This film is added to the Activist Film Festival line up in honour of those that serve transparency.
7:30pm Music - The Ovaries, Dune Rats
What's being said about the Activist Film Festival:
Ian Lowe ( President Australian Conservation Foundation )says: "I applaud the format which will allow those attending the opportunity to discuss the issues raised after watching the film. I hope it is a roaring success!"
Katie Patrick ( Founder & CEO Greenpages) Says: "I'm sure the Activist Film Festival will help provide the Brisbane community with one of those very important formative experiences we all have when this fighter in all of us gets up and says 'F#*k this, we can make a better world or I'll die trying."
The Activist Film Festival launches with a program noting the interdependance of long term environmental health and the health of independent expression and representative democracy.
Pending a successful launch year in 2011, we will expand to call for amateur and professional short and feature activist documentary submissions in 2012.
For more information contact info@activistfilmfestival.com or even website www.activistfilmfestival.com
Activist Film Festival is a Colman Ridge Presents production.