Saturday night’s screening of Barry Levinson’s POLIWOOD documentary will be followed by a discussion with producers Tim Daly, Robin Bronk, and Robert E. Baruc
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick St. at Laight St.
Through March 27
212-941-2001
www.artivists.org
www.tribecacinemas.com
Combining art and activism, the Artivist Film Festival is “dedicated to addressing human rights, children’s advocacy, environmental preservation, and animal advocacy.” The seventh annual festival kicked off last night with a screening of Jamal Joseph’s PERCY SUTTON: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and HARLEM IS MUSIC and continues today with Brian Single’s CHILDREN OF WAR, about Ugandan children who have escaped from the Lord’s Resistance Army, preceded by Linda Chavez’s THE ONE WAYZ, involving an immigrant family dealing with the father’s deportation to Mexico. Friday night also includes Brian Malone’s INTELLIGENT LIFE: CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WORLD and Taghreed Saadeh’s ROUGH CUT. The stars come out on Saturday night, featuring Barry Levinson’s POLIWOOD documentary, which examines the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions; the compilation film 8, with shorts by Gus Van Sant, Mira Nair, Gael Garcia Bernal, Gaspar Noel, Addis Ababa, Jane Campion, Jan Kounen, and Wim Wenders; Joyce Chopra’s New York-set GRAMERCY STORIES (followed by a discussion with Chopra); and Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy’s BELONGING documentary about climate change, narrated by Dustin Hoffman. The Artivist Film Festival shows that the world needs a lot of help – and that each one of us can make a difference.