CO-OPERATIVE FILM FESTIVAL: Cooperatives as an alternative economic order

Part of the Co-operative Film Festival

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Film: Electrification of Pignon. American Co-operative Movement / USA / 30 min’s

The NRECA International Foundation and U.S. electric co-ops have combined forces to electrify a town in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti.

The project is entirely funded through donations of money, material, and volunteer labor from the US cooperative community.

Film:Tsunami reconstruction activities of co-operatives Canadian Co-operative Association / Canada / 30 mins.

These are three short movies about building sustainable development through the development of co-operatives in the aftermath of the S.E. Asian Tsunami.

Other films in the Co-operative Film Festival:

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Film: Co-Operative Film Festival: The People's Cinema

19 Mar 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Films shown as part of the Co-operative Film Festival. Tonight we will be celebrating the history and politics of the movement, by showing fascinating films from the national co-operative film archive.

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Film: Co-Operative Film Festival: Youth And Futures

26 Mar 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Co-operative Film Makers / UK / 120 min’s with interval 120 minutes of 6 minute shorts, all films made by groups of young people in co-operative youth groups.

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Film: Can't Beat It Alone (1985)

29 Mar 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Made by Amber’s Current Affairs Unit, the video grew out of the engagement with the campaign against pit closures, the anti-nuclear and the peace movement.