¡Café Intifada! is excited to announce a new blog called ¡Café Intifada¡ Films Transformation It is our hope that this will become an important resource for educators, activists and scholars. We will be focusing on films of significant social importance and artistic quality. From time to time we will also include films that don't fit one or both of these criteria if the film is of particular social import, popularity, or has a message that needs to be deconstructed or challenged. Films will be organized into the categories (listed below) so that, using the blog's "Tags" feature, readers can access a filmography around a particular theme.

All film listings will include the year the film was released, the ratings, if any, the quality of closed captioning, the director, the actors as well as a description of the film as it pertains to the film categories, and if the film has been released on DVD, what special features it provides, as well.

It is our hope that this project will provide an important community and social service. We would appreciate feedback, suggestions for new categories, film suggestions, etc.

The process of creating this filmography is tedious. Each film is viewed at least twice, often three or four times, along with the viewing of the extra features on the disc as well. Notes are reviewed and a review is written. For this reason, few films will be reviewed that have only recently been released into theaters, though we don't rule out that possibility.

Be patient with us. This should be a viable resource when it amasses a catalog of 100 films. This should take a number of weeks. It will not happen over night. We anticipate this filmography becoming much larger than that as time goes by.

Peace with justice, and above all else,

Love!

Emma Rosenthal
¡Café Intifada!


Categories:

Love and Transformation (The power of love to transform society)
Life Under Occupation (A global study of the conditions of occupation)
Capitalism 101 (Films that provide a clear understanding of the mechanisms of capitalism)
Empire 101 (Films that provide a clear understanding of what Arundhati Roy calls;The Physics of Empire.)
Women's Lives (An overview of the conditions, issues, struggles and realities of women throughout the world.)
Ireland (An island struggling with the repercussions of 800 years of brutal occupation.)
Middle East (Films that explore the diverse cultures of the region commonly referred to as the Middle East.)
Indigenous Rights (Overlapping with Life Under Occupation, the impact on indigenous communities in conflict with colonization, globalization and neo-liberalism.)
Native Americans (Stories about the first peoples of the Americas.)
Racism (Films that explore and expose the false construct of race, its impact on humanity and resistance to its impositions.)
Healing Hands (Explorations in healing modalities and social transformation.)
Kids Aware (the impact of the adult world on kids and the impact of kids of courage on that world!)
Jewish Diaspora (The journeys of Jews throughout the world.)
Art of Resistance (Art and creativity in service to community empowerment.)
Bread and Roses (Films of labor struggles!)
African Heritage (The stories of Pan-African peoples on both sides of the atlantic.)
Treading Softly On Sacred Ground (The spiritual journey in daily life.)
The Blue Marble (The land, the planet we inhabit.)
Intifada (A focused study of palestinian resistance.)
Bad REELS (Films that are great examples of a bad example! -"reely" racist, "reely" sexist, "reely" wrong!)