"We have all gone Bananas!" Camcorder Guerilla Cinema - wed 31st January, 7pm @ CCA

 
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>> Wednesday 31st January 2007 - 7PM – CCA
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>> “WE HAVE ALL GONE BANANAS!”
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>> Camcorder Guerilla Cinema is back for 2007
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>> To start off the year, Camcorder Guerillas presents a two-hour
>> programme featuring films by local artist and filmmaker Jan Nimmo.
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>> 7 PM – CCA Cinema 4
>> 350 Sauchiehall Street – Glasgow – B.O: 0141 352 4900
>> ww.cca-glasgow.co.uk
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>> Free Entry (Donation appreciated!)
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>> Mystery Short...
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>> Bonita: Ugly Bananas (2004)
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>> Glasgow based artist, Jan Nimmo, has been gathering images and
>> testimonies to make a series of portraits of banana workers since
>> 2000. In 2002 she made a field trip to Ecuador.
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>> Although Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas, the
>> workers have the lowest pay and the worst conditions in the whole
>> of Latin America.Ecuador's biggest banana baron is Álvaro Noboa of
>> Bonita Brands.
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>> Noboa is the country's richest man and owns the world's fourth
>> largest banana company but his workers were only paid $3.00 a day
>> - less than the legal minimum wage.
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>> When Jan met workers who decided to organise and strike to gain
>> the most basic of labour rights she was able to film the
>> conditions within their plantation. She then found herself
>> witnessing a violent attack on the peaceful occupation of a Bonita
>> banana plantation called Los Alamos.
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 More Mystery...
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>> Pura Vida? (2006)
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>> Pura Vida?, Jan’s second film, exposes the devastating effects
>> that agrochemicals used on Costa Rica's pineapple and banana
>> plantations have on workers, communities and the environment. She
>> worked with local trade unionist, Carlos Arguedas and his union,
>> SITRAP to make this film.
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>> The film was premiered at Document 4 Human Rights Film Festival in
>> Glasgow, Scotland - Oct 2006
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>> Followed by Q&A Artist and Filmmaker Jan Nimmo
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>> For more information on these two films and the Green Gold art
>> project/campaign, log on:
>> http://www.greengold.org.uk
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>> And also prior, during and after the screening...a chance to
>> wonder at the Radical Independent Book Fair Stall:
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>> RIB - Radical Independent Book Fair:
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>> Glasgow's Radical Independent Book fair project...
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>> ...a travelling bookstall and temporary library...a meeting point for
>> distribution and ideas...supporting small press publishers and
>> independent producers...circulating radical reading materials and
>> information...occasional and bi-monthly events...
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>> Hope to see you there and a Guerrilla New Year to all of you!
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