Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic

Join us for a Special Screening of Award-Winning Film ‘Human Terrain’ with Filmmaker James Der Derian on Sunday February 26th at 11:30AM.

Presented by the SALISBURY FORUM in collaboration with the FilmWorks Forum of The Moviehouse.

Open to the Public, Free of Charge

‘Human Terrain’ is two stories in one. The first exposes a new Pentagon effort to enlist the best and the brightest in a struggle for hearts and minds. Facing long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military initiates ‘Human Terrain Systems’, a controversial program that seeks to make cultural awareness the centerpiece of the new counterinsurgency strategy. Designed to embed social scientists with combat troops, the program swiftly comes under attack as a misguided and unethical effort to gather intelligence and target enemies. Gaining rare access to wargames in the Mojave Desert and training exercises at Quantico and Fort Leavenworth, ‘Human Terrain’ takes the viewer into the heart of the war machine and a shadowy collaboration between American academics and the military.

The other story is about a brilliant young scholar who leaves the university to join a Human Terrain team. After working as a humanitarian activist in the Western Sahara, Balkans, East Timor and elsewhere, and winning a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael Bhatia returns to Brown University to take up a visiting fellowship. In the course of conducting research on military cultural awareness, he is recruited by the Human Terrain program and eventually embeds with the 82nd Airborne in eastern Afghanistan. On the way to mediate an intertribal dispute, Bhatia is killed when his humvee hits a roadside bomb.

War becomes academic, academics go to war, and the personal tragically merges with the political, raising new questions about the ethics, effectiveness, and high costs of counterinsurgency.

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the end of the line

1Hr. 23Mins.

Sun. Feb. 27, 2011 at 11:00AM

The SALISBURY FORUM in collaboration with the FilmWorks Forum of The Moviehouse
in Millerton is presenting the documentary film, End of the Line followed by a Q&A with Sam Waterston Actor/Activist
Waterston is best-known for his role as Jack McCoy on TV’s “Law and Order.” Waterston grew up in New England, where he saw the effects of fisheries collapses on the life of seaside towns;
and presently is on the Board of Oceana.

There’s no disputing this documentary’s dire warning: namely, if we don’t stop overfishing, within less than 40 years there’ll be no fish left to eat. Based on a book by Charles Clover, director Rupert Murray’s The End of the Line, narrated by Ted Danson, travels around the globe to illustrate the severity of the problem.

Open to the Public Free of Charge

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Ghost Bird

Sun. Feb. 20th, 2011 at 11:30 AM

FilmWorks Forum in collaboration with the Audubon Sharon presents a Feature Documentary filmed in the swamps of Eastern Arkansas
Directed by: Scott Crocker
Synopsis:
Set in a murky swamp overrun with birders, scientists, and reporters, Ghost Bird explores
the limits of certainty, the seductive power of hope, and how one phantom woodpecker
changed a sleepy Southern town forever.

Q&A following the screening
with Patrick M. Comins, Director of Bird Conservation, Audubon Connecticut

Mr. Comins is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford , and has worked in the bird conservation arena for the last 15 years. Patrick has deep Yankee roots. His family has lived in Connecticut since 1635, a legacy that strengthens his deep personal commitment to conserving the habitats and character of the state. He began his career with the Connecticut Audubon Society doing bird surveys on the coast at the McKinney NWR and then worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service as a biological technician at the Refuge.
He has been with Audubon Connecticut as the Director of Bird Conservation for Connecticut since 2000, overseeing Connecticut ’s Important Bird Areas and other conservation programs.He is the principal author of Protecting Connecticut’s Grassland Heritage and President of the ConnecticutOrnithological Association and was the 2007 recipient of their Mabel Osgood Wright Award.

Open to the Public Free of Charge

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Fresh

1Hr.50Min.

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

FilmWorks Forum in collaboration with the American Farmland Trust
Directed by: ana Sofia joanes
“FRESH” celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision of our food and our planet’s future. FRESH addresses an ethos that has been sweeping the nation and is a call to action America has been waiting for.
Open to the Public Free of Charge
A Panel Discussion with Hudson Valley Farm and Food Leaders
will follow the Screening:

American Farmland Trust
David Haight
New York Director of American Farmland Trust
www.farmland.org/newyork

Winter Sun Farms
Jim Hyland
President
http://www.wintersunfarms.com/home.php
http://farm2tablecopackers.com/

Great Performances/ Katchkie Farm
Liz Neumark
http://www.greatperformances.com/farm/katchkie-farm

Edible Hudson Valley Nancy Brannigan Painter
http://www.ediblecommunities.com/hudsonvalley/

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