SIMA RAMA Cinema Club Announces Summer/Fall 2018 Lineup
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Contact: Lucy Xiong, Communications Manager
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SIMA RAMA Cinema Club Announces Summer/Fall 2018 Lineup
LOS ANGELES (July 2018) – Social Impact Media Awards’ official monthly online film club, SIMA RAMA, announces its upcoming featured film schedule for Summer/Fall 2018. SIMA RAMA features award-winning social impact documentaries primarily chosen from their annual awards finalists and winners.
The film schedule is:
July 2018 – THE WELL: WATER VOICES FROM ETHIOPIA
By Paolo Barbieri & Riccardo Russo
Each year to prepare for the coming drought, Borana herders will gather their livestock and walk for days to the dry Oromia Lowlands (South of Ethiopia) to retrieve water from their secular astonishing “singing” wells. With its strong photography and its epic narration, the film follows their life during a whole dry season, showing a unique traditional water management system that regulates what water is available as the property and right of everyone, without any money being exchanged.
August 2018 – ALBATROSS
By Chris Jordan
On a remote atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, albatross chicks are dying, bodies filled with plastic. ALBATROSS unflinchingly shows the horror and grief of this tragedy, but ultimately brings us to a deeply felt experience of beauty and love for life on Earth. Stepping outside of traditional documentary film style, ALBATROSS delivers a profound message of reverence and renewal.
September 2018 – STRIKE A ROCK
By Aliki Saragas
In a deeply personal journey, Strike A Rock follows Primrose Sonti and Thumeka Magwangqana, two grandmothers and best-friends living in Nkaneng, Marikana, an informal-settlement in rural South-Africa that sprung up around a mine operated by Lonmin Plc. This was the company at the heart of the 2012 Marikana massacre, when 37 striking-mineworkers were killed by police. When Primrose’s ambition lands her a seat in Parliament, she must leave Marikana. Thumeka, left behind, faces her fears and challenges Lonmin in a landmark complaint against them. Can they take on these goliath-enemies, and also maintain a friendship threatening to break under this pressure?
October 2018 – SOUTHWEST OF SALEM
By Deborah S Esquenazi
After being wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls during the Satanic Panic witchhunt era of the 80s and 90s, four Latina lesbians fight against mythology, homophobia, and prosecutorial fervor in their struggle for exoneration in this critically acclaimed ‘True Crime’ tale.
November 2018 – STEALING AFRICA
By Christopher Guldbrandsen
Zambia has the third largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population lives on less than $1 a day. Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. It receives more tax than it can use thanks to one resident, Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are generating huge profits.
“At a time where our equality, human rights and social justice are under attack, SIMA is at the forefront of bringing social awareness to the issues that I care about the most.” – Brandy Chagolla, LA. USNC for UN Women
“SIMA RAMA is a monthly film club that gives viewers the opportunity to become agents of change. Every month we hand-pick a ground-breaking work of impact cinema and the issue it highlights, host a podcast with thought leaders, curate bonus content, and take global action.” – SIMA RAMA Website
Every month, SIMA RAMA hosts a corresponding podcast to the featured film, with the filmmakers behind the film, experts, grassroots activists, and other authorities on the monthly topics. Additionally, SIMA RAMA provides a comprehensive “Take Action” kit which gives members organizations to support and efforts to get involved in. All in addition to streaming the featured film with a global community of members from around the world and access to bonus features.
For a limited time, SIMA RAMA will be offering memberships for 60% off. Monthly subscriptions are available for $1.99. Yearly rates are available by subscription for $19.99 or $22.00 for a single year.
Gift memberships and group/corporate discounts are available.
For more on membership rates, visit: https://simarama.club/subscribe/
To find out more about SIMA RAMA Cinema Club, visit: https://simarama.club/film-club-changemakers/
To see what’s showing now, visit: https://simarama.club/now-showing/
For SIMA RAMA’s film archive, visit: https://simarama.club/film-archive/
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