FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MAY 3-5
UWM UNION THEATRE · 22OO Kenwood Blvd. · 2nd Floor UWM Union

LIFE & DEBT
Milwaukee Premiere: Friday May 3 - 7pm;
Saturday, May 4 - 5pm; Sunday, May 5 - 9pm

Jamaica, land of sea, sand, and sun; and a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. This searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry in Third World countries while substituting them with sweatshops and cheap imports. Seen from thepoint of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials, who see the reality of globalization from the ground up. (Stephanie Black, USA, 86min, in English, 35mm, 2001)

"The clearest analysis of globalization and its negative effects that I've ever seen on a movie or television screen."

ABC AFRICA
Milwaukee Premiere: Friday, May 3 - 9pm;
Saturday, May 4 - 7pm; Sunday, May 5 - 5pm

A documentary about the ravages of AIDS and civil war in Uganda may at first seem like a radical departure for Iran's most celebrated auteur, Abbas Kiarostami (The Wind Will Carry Us), yet, he makes such unlikely material very much his own. The resulting impressionistic travelogue is a deceptively simple record of a visit, a journey, and a people struggling to survive. Yet ABC Africa is ultimately an optimistic film, full of smiling faces, and, above all, full of music-heard on the street, played on car radios, and sung rapturously in school yards. (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran/Uganda, 84min, Farsi w/English Subtitles, 35mm, 2001)

"….Overriding emotions in this case are hope and admiration for people's resilience in the face of devastation…One of the Top Ten Films of the Year!"