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The Leech and the Earthworm

A film by Marc Silver and Max Pugh - Produced by Debra Harry

a yeast directions and IPCB production - run time 68 mins

Indigenous peoples voice their views on Western science, its vision of a genetically engineered future, and its deep links with corporate profits and globalization. The Leech and the Earthworm is a journey that combines passionate critiques of a future threatened by genetic engineering, and shares living alternatives to a globalized monoculture, with stunning visuals and music from around the world. The Leech and the Earthworm is a provocative film that inspires us to ask serious questions of the collective illusion we call “progress”.

(a www.yeastdirections.org.uk / www.ipcb.org production)

 

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El Chupasangre y el Gusanito

Reviews

London Time Out - Critic's Choice
The Leech and the Earthworm
A film by Max Pugh and Marc Silver

'Taking its title from a prescient folk tale of natural misinformation, this impressive and imaginatively assembled campaigning documentary explores the murky world of genetic sampling, engineering and ownership and its explicit links to a far from dormant colonialism. Focusing on the economic, ethical and legal issues around exploitation of blood taken from first-nation islanders, the film uses impressionistic image collages, effective scoring, archive footage and creative graphics to trace a centuries-old lineage of abuse and argues for an alternative, interdependent world view based on collaboration and long-held wisdoms. Ambitious, provocative and searching, it's a welcome and timely search for values and worth in the desert of the corporate sprawl'.
Produced by Debra Harry UK/USA 2003 68 minutes

Pequot Times

"Blood for Money" (Click here to see full article)
By Trace US24.99

 

 

Screening Schedule

Date

Time

Location

Host

       
       
April 23, 2007 tba Oberlin College Indigenous Women's Series, Oberlin College, OH
05/16/2006 1:45p-3:15p

Africana Studies and Research Center Foyer,

Cornell Univ, Ithaca NY

Biopolitics: Gender, Race and Science conference

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/biopolitics/index.html#

2/5/2005 10a & 2p   OakridgeTerrace Park, Chicago, IL
10/04 7 p   Okanagan University College, Kelowna BC
10/04   TBA

Earth Vision Int't Environmental Film Festival, Santa Cruz, CA Winner: Honorable Mention

6/21/04

 

TBA

7th Indigenous Film and Video Festival of the Americas, Santiago, Chile videoindigena.bolnet.bo/festival/index.htmnativenetworks.si.edu/clacpi7th.htm#mas

6/1-10/04

 

TBA

Ecocinema Film Festival, Rhodes Greece http://www.ecocinema.gr/index.htm

6/18/2404

 

TBA

7th Indigenous Film and Video of the Americas, Santiago, Chile www.nativenetworks.si.edu/clacpi7th.htm

www.nativenetworks.si.edu/clacpi7th.htm#mas

2/8/04

2:00 p

Govett Brewster Theatre, New Plymouth Aotearoa (NZ)

Joely Ham
Curator, Public Programmes
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Queen Street, New Plymouth (Aoteoroa) Ph: +64 6 758 5149
joelyh@govettbrewster.com

www.govettbrewster.com

11/7/03

7:00p

Govett Brewster Theatre, New Plymouth Aotearoa (NZ)

Docomania-Pacific Rim Stories 2003 www.docomania.co.nz

Contact Peter Marra, program coord: marrap@xtra.co.nz

11/7/03

3:00 p

Centre for Innovative
Teaching, Room 105, University of Victoria, BC

Center for Asia-Pacific Initiatives Contact Lyana Patrick: lyana@uvic.ca

11/6/03

6:30 p

Camosun College, Fisher Bldg, Rm 100, 3100 Foul Bay Road, Victoria BC

Camosun College, Indigenous Studies Program contact Todd Ormiston: toddo@shaw.ca

10/25/03

3:30 p

Innis College Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto

ImagineNative Film Festival www.imaginenative.org/im_schedule.html

Oct 23: 10:30-11:45 D. Harry to participate in Panel Discussion: Producing for Aboriginal Film and Television, Quality Hotel, 280 Bloor St.

10/07/03

7:30 p

Robert Purcell Comm. Center Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival cinema.cornell.edu/fleff/index.html Contact: Christopher Riley
(607) 255-3522, cjr20@cornell.edu

11/4/03 7:00 p

Visions Cinema, 1927 Florida Ave, NW
Washington, DC

DC Independant Media Center

http://www.dc.indymedia.org

10/06/03

7:00 p

Park Auditorium, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival cinema.cornell.edu/fleff/index.html Contact: Christopher Riley
(607) 255-3522, cjr20@cornell.edu

08/7/03

7:00 p

Art CafZ, 135 High Street, Dunedin, (NZ)

Aotearoa Indymedia Film Festival

7/23/03

5:30 p

2104 Stevens Avenue

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - MN Global Program contact Kristin: 612 870-3410

7/09/03

3:00pm

Cine Afrique

Zanzibar International Film Festival http://www.ziff.or.tz/festival/film.htm

7/3/03

TBA

World Council of Churches, Great Hall, Geneva

World Council of Churches, contact Laura Sandoval Merritt" <lsm@wcc-coe.org>

6/22/03

1:00 p

Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI

Oneida Nations Arts Program, Oneida Nation Library, Green Bay Film Society

6/20/03

3:30 p

Radisson hotel, Seneca Conference Room, Green Bay WI

Native American Journalists Association Conference

6/11/03

6:00 p

JJ's Community Centre, Suva, Fiji

Pacific Concerns Resource Council

6/09/03

6:00 p

Wellington

Green Party

6/09/03

10:00 a

TPK, Maori Ministers

 

6/08/03

3:00 p

Whanganui Community Center Theatre

 

6/6/03

6 pm

Parihaka Marae

Karangaroa

6/5/03

7:00 p

AUT, Auckland

 

6/4/03

20:45

London

Riverside Studios, London

5/29/03

12:00p

Mocambo Hotel, Nadi, Fiji

Pacific Concerns Resource Centre

5/14/03

1:15-2:45 p

UN Headquarters
New York City, NY

UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
www.un.org/esa/socdev/pfii

4/19/03

7:30 p

New College Auditorium
777 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA

Food First - foodfirst.org
New College - newcollege.org

4/7/03

7:00 p

Robert Purcell Auditorium
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

American Indian Program
Dept. of Rural Sociology
American Indian Graduate Students