Posted: June 12th, 2015

SOCIAL MOVEMENT FILM

Social Movements
Extra Credit Opportunity
Film Review

YOU CAN DO THE MIX TAPE ONE OR THE SISTERS OF 77

This is an opportunity to get a chuck of extra credit points at once rather than the few at a time on the discussion board. This assignment, if done properly, is worth a possible 15 points. The max of extra credit is 25 for the class, if you have done extra credit on the discussion boards I will add this to those points on Canvas.
The assignment is to choose a documentary film about a social movement, watch, and write a review. I have provided links to lists of films below, but you may find one on your own. The film must be no shorter than about 45 minutes- some on the films for action site are very brief- more like quick informational pieces than films. Please make sure the film is about a social movement, protest event, revolution, etc… but not just about a social issue.
To get full credit, you need to generally summarize the film, and then link it to what you’ve been learning in class in some way- referring to course concepts or relevant course ideas that arose in the story. You review should be at least one full single spaced page, or about 600 words.

Here are 3 lists of films to use, not all films on each list will quality as being about a movement, so make sure to read the synopsis before choosing..

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls051175934/

http://documentarystorm.com/category/society/activism-society/

http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch_activism_videos/?t=4936

A List of Great Classic SM Films From: (some of these may be tough to find- try college/local libraries)
http://sociologythroughdocumentaryfilm.pbworks.com/w/page/17194965/FrontPage

Social Movements / Community Organizing
• “I Am Somebody” (1970) Directed by Madeline Anderson.
• “Berkeley in the Sixties” (1990) Directed by Mark Kitchell.
• “Soldiers in the Army of God” (2000) Directed by Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson.
• “The Weather Underground” (2002) Directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.
• “V-Day: Until the Violence Stops” (2003) Directed by Abby Epstein.
• “This Black Soil” (2004) Directed by Teresa Konechne.
• “Sir, No Sir!” (2005) Directed by David Zeiger.
• “Sisters of ‘77″ (2005) Directed by Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell.
• “Favela Rising” (2006) Directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary.
• “Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)” (2006) Directed by Jill Irene Freidberg.
• “The Shape of Water” (2006) Directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani.
• “The Garden” (2008) Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
• “Made in L.A.” (2009) Directed by Almudena Caarracedo and Robert Bahar.
• “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” (2009) Directed by Gini Reticker.
• “A Village Called Versailles” (2009) Directed by S. Leo Chiang.
• “The Yes Men Fix the World” (2009) Directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno.
• “Waste Land” (2010) Directed by Lucy Walker.
• “Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975” (2011) Directed by Göran Olsson.

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