FIRED UP FILMS 2006
A Series of Challenging New Political and Social Documentaries
for Reflection and Discussion
In Memory of Dr. James Schneider
Sponsored by:
The Department of Media and Communication Department
of Muhlenberg College, the Communication Department
of Cedar Crest College, the Cultural Programs Committee
of Cedar Crest, and the Center for Ethics at Muhlenberg.
Monday, February 13, 7:00pm.
Center For The Arts Recital
Hall, Muhlenberg.
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990, 71m)
A lively and moving portrait of NYC drag queens in the
late 1980s, Livingston?s celebrated film demonstrates
the challenges one particular group of men face being
black or Hispanic and gay in America. Co-presented with
the Muhlenberg Center for Ethics.
Winner of 12 festival and critics awards for best documentary
including Best Documentary, Sundance Film Festival (1991).
Friday, February 24, 7:00pm.
Room 33, Miller Science Building , Cedar Crest.
Private Warriors (2005, 60m.)
A look at Kellogg, Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary
with 50,000 employees in Iraq and Kuwait providing support
services to the U.S. military. What are the implications
when armed security forces are outside the military
command structure, and what does KBR do with the $12
billion it has billed the U.S. government since 2002.
Writer's Guild of America nominee for Best Documentary
- Current Events (2005)
Tuesday, March 14, 7:00pm.
Center For The Arts Recital
Hall, Muhlenberg.
Farmingville (Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini,
2004, 79m.)
The attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers
in the suburban Long Island town of Farmingville focused
national attention on the plight of migrant workers
and the complex policies that create a climate of fear
and racism. Co-director Catherine Tambini will present
the film and least a post-film discussion. Co-presented
with the Muhlenberg Center for Ethics.
"An unusually sensitive and sophisticated piece of investigative
journalism" - NY Times
Tuesday, March 21, 7:00pm.
Lithgow Auditorium (Trumbower
130), Muhlenberg.
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames The Working Class (Loretta
Alper & Pepi Leistyna, 62m.)
An examination of the way in which American television
tends to portray working class people as either clowns
or social deviants, this film considers the links between
media portrayals of class and public policies that make
it difficult for working class people to get ahead in
America . Co-presented with the Muhlenberg Center for
Ethics.
Friday, April 7, 7:00pm.
Room 33, Miller Science Building
, Cedar Crest.
The End Of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse
of the American Dream (Gregory Greene, 2004, 78m.)
Since the Second World War, the promise of the American
Dream has largely been the promise of suburbia: big
houses, big yards, and wide streets. But this dream
is dependent on a cheap supply of oil, which is unlikely
to last much longer. We don?t have to run out of oil
for this way of life to become unsustainable.
"A much needed look at the reality of the situation
many in North America will be facing in the coming years."
- Alternative Press Review
Wednesday, April 19, 7:00 p.m.,
Center for the Arts Recital Hall,
Muhlenberg.
A Documentarian in the Community:
Films by Jim
Schneider and his Students
The last event in this series pays tribute to the documentary
vision of Jim Schneider, the founder of the Fired Up
Films series. The evening will feature documentary
projects Dr. Schneider was working on before his death
in 2005, and films by students.
"Out of shared telling and remembering grow identity,
connection, and pride, binding people to a place and
to one another?The documentary process, and sharing
the results of that work, provides a way for us to acknowledge
and shape community life as we advance our understanding
of these connections and how they inform our work in
the present." - Time Rankin, Director of the Center for
Documentary Studies, Duke University
