Film Screenings

Films are one of the most powerful ways in which a message can reach a wide audience. CSAP tries to bring as many films and documentaries on animal-related issues to campus as possible, so that Columbia students are exposed to such subjects. Films we have screened in the past include Blinders: The truth behind the tradition. This November, CSAP will bring you Earthlings.

2010.02.12 Blinders Film Screening with Q&A with Director Donny Moss. 5.00pm - 7.00pm, Broadway Room, Lerner Hall. We had a good turnout, including students from Hunter College and members of a New York animal activist group.
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Films to watch:

• Earthlings EARTHLINGS is a multi-award winning feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) while also illustrating our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." Released in 2005, the film is narrated by two-time Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR, WALK THE LINE) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby. It was written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson.  
• Blinders: The truth behind the tradition Through original footage taken with hidden cameras and interviews with carriage drivers, veterinarians, accident witnesses, animal rights activists, politicians, tourists, residents who live near the horses and people who have rescued NYC carriage horses from slaughter, BLINDERS takes viewers behind the scenes to expose the truth behind the tradition.  
• The Cove In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan, behind a wall of barbed wire and "Keep Out” signs, lies a shocking secret. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji engage in an unseen hunt for thousands of dolphins. The nature of the work is so horrifying, a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep it hidden from the world. But when an elite team of activists, filmmakers and free-divers embark on a covert mission to penetrate the cove, they discover that the shocking atrocities they find there are just the tip of the iceberg.  
• Food Inc. In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.  
• The Future of Food The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade.
  Watch it on Hulu
• Two Brothers Set not so long ago in a distant land, the film follows the adventures of twin tiger cubs--one shy and gentle, the other bold and fierce--who are born among the temple ruins of an exotic jungle. However, on a fateful day, the brothers are separated by fate. The bold brother is sold off to a circus, where homesickness and living in a cage rob him of his spirit. Meanwhile, the shy cub becomes the beloved companion of the governor's lonely young son, until an accident forces the family to give him away to a man who resolves to break his gentle nature and turn him into a fighter for sport. When they are fully grown the brothers find themselves reunited--but as forced enemies, pitted against each other.
• Dealing Dogs Each year, 42,000 dogs are sold to veterinary schools and research labs by Class B dealers, who are required by federal law to buy the animals from pounds, shelters, and small breeders—and to treat them humanely. However, many Class B dealers violate the law. Dealing Dogs documents the undercover investigation that exposed the abuses that took place at one of America's most notorious Class B dealers, Martin Creek Kennel in Arkansas.  
• March of the Penguins March of the Penguins opens with stunning distance shots of seemingly impossible icescape formations in the Antarctic wilderness. No creature could live in such a beautiful but utterly barren place. Or so one would think..  
• Arctic Tale Set in the vast snow kingdom at the top of the world, Arctic Tale is a real-life adventure from the people who brought you March Of The Penguins. This family film follows two very different arctic creatures, Nanu, the polar bear cub and Seela, the walrus pup, through exciting and harrowing struggles for survival. Armed only with their natural instincts and mothers' guidance, these inspiring animals face countless trials and challenges in a beautiful icebound world that is rapidly melting beneath them.  
• Whale Rider On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.  

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