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Jul 18, 2011, 1:18:07 PM7/18/11
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Whoops, we must be pretty excited for this event. Correct screening time is 7:30 PM! doors open at 7.
http://www.dctvny.org/events/land-destiny
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http://www.dctvny.org/events/land-destiny
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Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Subject: Remindin' You! - Land of Destiny - Screening and Discussion with Director Brett Story
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Hey Friends,
Hope to see you Tomorrow night (July 19) at DCTV (87 Lafayette St.).
The screening starts at 7 PM. Doors open at 6:30.
Modestly priced drinks for sale before and after... woo hoo!
Cheers,
Red Channels
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From: Red Channels <redcha...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Subject: Remindin' You! - Land of Destiny - Screening and Discussion with Director Brett Story
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Hey Friends,
Hope to see you Tomorrow night (July 19) at DCTV (87 Lafayette St.).
The screening starts at 7 PM. Doors open at 6:30.
Modestly priced drinks for sale before and after... woo hoo!
Cheers,
Red Channels
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From: Red Channels <redcha...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Subject: Land of Destiny - Screening and Discussion with Director Brett Story
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http://www.dctvny.org/events/land-destiny (check here for the trailer)
From: Red Channels <redcha...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Subject: Land of Destiny - Screening and Discussion with Director Brett Story
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July 19th, 7:30 PM
DCTV, 87 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10013
Tickets:
$6 / DCTV & Red Channels Members
$8 / Shooting People, DocuClub, NYWIFT, IFP Members, and students with ID
$10 / General
Co-presented with DCTV, Red Channels is pleased to host a screening and audience discussion with director Brett Story. This is the film's premier screening in New York City and we're psyched that Brett will be here to discuss it! The film is excellent and there is a lot to take from it. Post screening, we'll think and talk through some of the issues brought up in Brett's documentary. For instance, cemented class identities and value systems, explorations of the role of place, identity and work which form ideas about worth and value, duty, community. How does a group of people navigate future possibility or collective paralysis worsened by illness, depression and isolation, a direct result of the modern globalized economy in which lives, deaths, and identities are bound?
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Land of Destiny 80 min, 2010
A hard-working petrochemical town is rocked by revelations that its workers suffer an epidemic of cancers. But even more terrifying is the looming spectre of deindustrialization and joblessness. In the rich fabric of the city’s landscape - rows of boarded storefronts, the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants and the swollen rooms of hospital wards and crowded bars - one finds a microcosm of the 21st century.
Tattooed men serving fries, basement musicians, boilermakers and volunteer firemen, heartbroken widows and an optimistic mayor - the lives of a diverse medley of characters intersect to reveal the dramas and contradictions of an industrial town out of sync with a post-industrial world. As the dystopian architecture of the petrochemical plants, squatted like crushed space stations just meters away from homes and schoolyards, give way to the spaces that make this city a community, we begin to see what it is that everyone seems so afraid to lose. A portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a meditation on work and place in the modern economy, Land of Destiny offers a poignant and universal story about work, community, and struggle in an era of globalization.
- Brett Story
Brett Story is an independent documentary filmmaker based out of Montreal and Toronto, Canada. Her first film, Going Condo, followed the struggle of community activists as they battled the gentrification of one Montreal’s oldest working-class neighborhoods. As well as holding a degrees from McGill University and the University of Oxford, Brett has worked extensively as a freelance journalist, writing and producing video for publications such as The Nation, The Montreal Mirror, and This Magazine. The director of numerous short experimental non-fiction films, Brett is now currently working toward a PhD in geography at the University of Toronto. Land of Destiny is her first feature-length film.
A hard-working petrochemical town is rocked by revelations that its workers suffer an epidemic of cancers. But even more terrifying is the looming spectre of deindustrialization and joblessness. In the rich fabric of the city’s landscape - rows of boarded storefronts, the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants and the swollen rooms of hospital wards and crowded bars - one finds a microcosm of the 21st century.
Tattooed men serving fries, basement musicians, boilermakers and volunteer firemen, heartbroken widows and an optimistic mayor - the lives of a diverse medley of characters intersect to reveal the dramas and contradictions of an industrial town out of sync with a post-industrial world. As the dystopian architecture of the petrochemical plants, squatted like crushed space stations just meters away from homes and schoolyards, give way to the spaces that make this city a community, we begin to see what it is that everyone seems so afraid to lose. A portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a meditation on work and place in the modern economy, Land of Destiny offers a poignant and universal story about work, community, and struggle in an era of globalization.
- Brett Story
Brett Story is an independent documentary filmmaker based out of Montreal and Toronto, Canada. Her first film, Going Condo, followed the struggle of community activists as they battled the gentrification of one Montreal’s oldest working-class neighborhoods. As well as holding a degrees from McGill University and the University of Oxford, Brett has worked extensively as a freelance journalist, writing and producing video for publications such as The Nation, The Montreal Mirror, and This Magazine. The director of numerous short experimental non-fiction films, Brett is now currently working toward a PhD in geography at the University of Toronto. Land of Destiny is her first feature-length film.
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