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View Article  Landlocked Film Festival to Screen Political and Social Issue Movies
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.
View Article  Back from Vacation
Back from Vacation
By Sam Garchik

Ive been in California for a few weeks, so I'm posting some stuff I missed on days before today.

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