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"The Sheik and I"
A film about free speech!
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Saturday Nov 2, 2013
Room 156
4:30 PM
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The Sheik and I
104 minutes, United States, 2012
Reinventing the wheel
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Part of the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film
Festival 2013
Commissioned by the Sharjah Biennial of the
United Arab Emirates to make a film on the theme of "art as a
subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi goes
overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of
the Sheik, who rules the country and finances the Biennial, Zahedi
decides to do just that. He turns his camera on the Biennial itself
and gleefully presses every culturally sensitive button he can find.
But his court jester antics fails to amuse. Zahedi's film is banned
for blasphemy and he is threatened with a fatwa.
"Whether mocking the Muslim world or indicting Western
attitudes toward that world - perhaps a little of both - "The
Sheik and I" argues vociferously that it's always better to
offend than to bore."
The New York Times, Dec. 2012
"At once preposterous and profound, the film proposes
elemental questions about freedom of speech and artistic
ethics."
Wall Street Journal, Dec. 2012
How to Buy Tickets
You can buy all tickets at the door at the
Library & Archives Canada. Festival passes are now
available at Compact Music (785 Bank,206 Bank).
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Fracknation: A journalist's search for the fracking
truth!
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Part
of the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013
November 2, 2013, 4:00PM
Main Auditorium, Library & Archives Canada
Admission: $12.00 or with a Festival Pass.
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FrackNation
Movie Clips - The Truth About Fracking
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Fracknation follows journalists Phelim McAleer as he faces
gun threats, malicious 911 calls and bogus lawsuits when questioning
green extremists for the truth about fracking. Fracking is going to
make America one of the world's leading energy producers but it has
become the target of a concerted campaign by environmentalists who want
it banned.
In Fracknation, McAleer travels across the USA and Europe to uncover
the science suppressed by environmental activists and ignored by much
of the media. He talks with scientists and ordinary Americans who live
in fracking areas and who tell him the truth about the exaggerations
and misrepresentations of anti-fracking activists.
"McAleer is
an expert practitioner of cinematic jujitsu".
New
York Post
"Methodically
researched...provocative."
The New York Times
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Powerful as God: The Children's Aid Society of Ontario
Part of the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013
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Saturday Nov. 2nd
Room 156, 2:30 PM
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Powerful as God: The Children's Aid Society of
Ontario
Watch the Trailer
75 minutes, 2011 Canada
blakout.ca
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A
documentary that delves into society's most controversial and
secretive topics. The film navigates 'truth' by engaging twenty-six
witnesses with diverse experiences into conversation. By facilitating
a voice for individuals whose lives have been tragically affected,
with observations and recommendations by experts who have worked
directly with the agency (such as doctors, social workers and
lawyers), the film reveals a child welfare system plagued by systemic
and bureaucratic abuse that urgently requires public attention.
Financed by tax dollars and wielding extraordinary power, CAS
employees have been heard to describe their influence over children
and families to be as powerful as god.
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Powerful as God - Children's Aid Societies of Ontario
[TRAILER]
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Speaker: Producer Esther Buckareff
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Orchestra of Exiles...
How one man saved the best Jewish musicians from the
Nazis!
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Part
of the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013.
November 3rd,
1:30 PM
Library &
Archives, Main Auditorium
395 Wellington,
Ottawa
Admission:
$12, or with Festival Pass. Tickets available online
or at the door.
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Orchestra
of Exiles Documentary Film Trailer
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The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe's premiere Jewish
musicians from obliteration by the Nazis.
In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe.
Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved
these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would
become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness
and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini and Albert
Einstein, Huberman saved nearly 1,000 Jews - and guaranteed the
survival of Europe's musical heritage.
"Richly researched and partly told by some of today's top-flight
musicians, 'Orchestra of Exiles' aspires to a level of primary research
that other historical documentaries could take a page from."
New York Times
Performance: Floralove Katz sings some songs of the Holocaust.
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An Evening with Barbara Kay!
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Main
Auditorium, Library & Archives Canada
395
Wellington
Admission: $20 ($10 students), or with Festival pass. Passes also available
at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206 Bank).
Tickets available at the door.
Columnist at the National Post, Barbara Kay is a
true Canadian treasure!
In this event, Ms. Kay will read from her new book,
Acknowledgements, discuss her work with Free Thinking Films
President Fred Litwin, and then answer questions from the
audience, followed by a private reception.
Ms. Kay is a weekly columnist for National Post and a frequent
contributor to the Post's opinion blog, Full Comment.
Her writings have also appeared in conservative U.S. online
opinion sites Front
Page Magazine and Pajamas
Media, and in print magazines such as Canadian Observer,
Dorchester
Review and Cité
libre. In 2009 Barbara was the National Association
of Men's recipient of its award of excellence "for promoting
gender fairness in the media." She is also a Woodrow Wilson
Fellow. In 2012 Barbara received the Diamond Jubilee Medal for
"excellence in journalism. Barbara is a regular guest on
many Canadian radio talk shows, from the Maritimes to B.C., as
well as more recently on Sunmedia
TV.
Barbara is the co-author, with Aruna Papp, of Unworthy Creature: A
Punjabi Daughter's Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love.
"Barbara
Kay's writing is brisk and clear. She thinks for herself. She
bravely resists the turn of the moment, and the preoccupations of
the politically correct..."
Rex Murphy, columnist, National Post
"There's
one group, the best of a bad lot, columnists I call the cream of
the crap... Then there are a few like Barbara Kay, who is good
when compared to good writers, not bad ones. She started punditry
at an age when some people retire from it. Perhaps that's why she
isn't one of those writers about whom you feel they've written
more books than they've read. She is a chippy polemicist, but
only tells readers who may disagree with her that they're wrong,
not that they're small and stupid. Most writers know how to
assert; some know how to demonstrate; but only the Barbara Kays
of columnists have the capacity to persuade."
George Jonas, columnist, National Post
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Hacked!
China Cyber-Spying against the West...
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Part of the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival
2013
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This is going to be
one of the most important events we've ever held. Please
mark this on your calendar right now!
November 2nd, 7:00 PM
Library
& Archives Canada
We will start off the evening with the Australian
film, "Hacked! When Cyber Spies Attack" which
investigates Chinese cyber spying into Australia. It's a
very well-done and up to date documentary.
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Hacked! - Preview of the 45 minute film
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After the film, please join us for an amazing panel on China
Cyber Spying against Canada and other Western countries.
Joining us on this panel are:
- Brian Shields - IT Auditor (2.5 yrs), and
then Corporate Systems Security (16 yrs) with
Nortel. Brian's last 5 years were focused on finding
APT (advanced persistent threat) intruders in the Nortel
network.
- Richard
Bejtlich, Chief Security Officer of Mandiant Corporation,
one of the premiere cyber-security firms in the United
States. Bejtlich has more than 15 years of experience
in enterprise level intrusion detection and incident
response working the US government and Fortune 100
companies. Mandiant Corporation is the firm that
identified specifics on Chinese hacking into the United
States.
- Dr.
Rafal Rohozinski, CEO of The SecDev Group in Ottawa, Canada,
which works on the crossroads of global security and
development.
After the panel discussion and
Q&A, we will also have a private reception.
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The 4th Annual Free Thinking Film
Festival!
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Trailer for the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film
Festival 2013
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You can buy festival passes for the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film
Festival at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206 Bank) or online here.
Tickets will also be on sale at the door.
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How to Buy Tickets for the
Free Thinking Film Festival
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Tickets will be available at the door.
Festival passes are now on sale at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206
Bank).
You can buy Festival passes ($80), Saturday day Passes ($30),
Sunday Day Passes ($30), Individual film tickets ($12), or for
the 4 big gala events ($20) online at Ticketweb.ca.
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Great profile in the Ottawa Citizen
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Events from our
friends...
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An important event from
the Macdonald-Laurier Institute...
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The
Macdonald-Laurier Institute presents
Great
Canadian Debates
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Thursday, October 24th at 7pm
Barney Danson Auditorium, War Museum Ottawa
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$20 per ticket /
Students and Seniors $15 (ID required)
RESOLVED: PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD WELCOME
CANADA'S ETHICAL OIL
Who is
right? The environmentalists who believe the US President should refuse
Canada's oil, or members of Congress who have approved the deal
to open the XL pipeline? That's the question in the first debate
of the season presented by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Former Alberta Energy Minister Ted Morton
will argue for the affirmative that the deal is good for both
countries while author Andrew Nikiforuk will
argue that exporting more oil to the US is devastating for the
environment.
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Meighen Institute's
Maple Leaf Dinner...
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Arthur Meighen Institute for Public Affairs
Presents
2013 Maple Leaf Dinner
honouring
The Hon. Preston Manning
PC CC ACE
Winner of the 2013 Arthur
Meighen Freedom Medal
featuring keynote speaker
Ben Shapiro
and Master of
Ceremonies
Brian Lilley
Tuesday, November 5
Downtown Marriott Hotel
100 Kent Street
Ottawa, Ont.
Cocktails 6 pm
Dinner 7 pm
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Regular Tickets
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$275
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VIP Tickets*
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$1,000
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Tables of 10
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$2, 500
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