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Amy Miller, an emergent Canadian filmmaker with an independent journalist background, has built on the experience and success of her first film, Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role in Industries of War and Peace, with one of the finest, most carefully researched and executed political exposés of the year.

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“High-spirited, emotional and funny, Sound City is a love note to a machine. The Neve 8028 sound board, was the crown jewel of Sound City, a complete dump of a recording studio that turned out more than 100 gold and platinum records, including epochal work by Neil Young, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Fleetwood Mac and Nine Inch Nails.

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CO-PRESENTED BY CUTEGECKO

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CO-PRESENTED BY WHITING DESIGN

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ALL SEATS $7 ---- Jennifer Baichwal's cameras follow Edward Burtynsky as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place in Bangladesh where ships are taken apart for recycling.

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WINNER! Audience Award - Victoria Film Festival

WINNER! Most Popular Environmental Film - Vancouver Film Festival

People's Choice Award - Runner Up - TIFF

Audience Award - Best Documentary - Atlantic film Festival

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“Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten opens with startling black-and-white footage of Joe Strummer in the studio, singing. We don't hear any music, just his voice - that strangled lumpen rasp, all ferocity and barbed wire, not so much singing as spitting the lyrics.

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SAMSARA is a nonverbal, guided meditation that will transform viewers in countries around the world, as they are swept along a journey of the soul. Through powerful images pristinely photographed in 70mm and a dynamic music score, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of the nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.

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~~ The Tuesday October 9th, 9:10pm screening of Kumare will be introduced, jointly, by Jason Neelis, a Religion and Culture faculty member and Merin Shobhana Xavier, a doctoral student in the joint Laurier-Waterloo PhD program in Religious Studies.

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“In the 1973 horror classic Don’t Look Now, Venice played itself as a soggy ghost town. Now Andreas Pichler’s sobering documentary The Venice Syndrome confirms the great city is haunted, alright – by its own impossibly glamorous legacy of gorgeous girls and gondoliers.

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