Changing Your Relationship To The World...  One Documentary Film At A Time

Monday, May 4th  

7:00 pm

Monday, April 6th   

7:00 pm

T-Shirt Travels

directed by Shantha Bloeman

What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries?

In T-Shirt Travels, Bloemen first travels to the Jersey shore, where she interviews Americans who donate their goods to various charities but have little idea that their former wardrobes end up in Africa. She talks to export agent Barney Lehrer from Brooklyn, who tells her that the Salvation Army doesn't even unpack most of the donated clothing but sells it to companies for export to third-world countries.

This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business.

Behind Forgotten Eyes

directed by Anthony Gilmore

Behind Forgotten Eyes focuses on Korea during the Japanese Occupation when the Japanese military coerced, tricked, and forced more than 200,000 Korean women into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery on an unimaginable scale.

Forbidden to leave the rickety shacks hastily constructed near the front lines of Imperial Japan's aggressive wars, often with a blanket as the room's only "furniture", they were forced to have sex with some 30-40 men every day.

This film shows heart wrenching interviews with both the Korean victims and Japanese soldiers who lived through this nightmare, as well as the expert opinions of academics, social activists, and professionals from around the world to offer an enthralling look into an issue that has been ignored for far too long.