MILES TO GO preceeded by THE DISAPPEARED ONES

SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER AT 3:50PM UGC SHAFTESBURY AVE SCREEN 2

Country India Running Time 58 mins Format DV Dir/S'play Nina Subramani Prod Elephant Corridor Films DoP Shilpi Sharma Print Source Elephant Corridor Films E elephantcorridor@hotmail.com

Miles to Go details a road trip where Greenpeace volunteers cross 6000km of India, filming acts of big business vandalism and stirring up reaction in the small and vulnerable communities that are affected by it.

Nina Subramani's film catalogues multinationals' blatant flouting of the law. Effluent pipes pour sludge into rivers, killing fish and causing, in places, every person under the age of thirty to be deformed. The poisoning is blatant, as is the governmental collusion that allows it. As the head of a pressure group based in Bhopal says, companies like Lever have been given carte blanche to kill as many as they like as long as they hand over money.

The reaction by communities is a lesson for apathetic Westerners - for their reaction is not to write letters, or make phone calls, but to march, enraged, on government offices. Subramani, through allowing these people to be seen and to speak about their anger, and showing their plight simply, without trickery, shows us how a small group and a community can actually fight government and corporation - even if it may already be too late. NS

Nina Subramani's early life was spent working in the environmental movement and her film work since graduating in Film and Television has continued this work. Her documentaries include a study of medicinal plants and indigenous healing in Kalpavriksha - Legacy of the Forests, and a comparison of people's movements in Europe and India, Two Peoples One Movement.

THE DISAPPEARED ONES USA | 34 mins | Dir/Prod/DoP Bob Freimark P/S bfreimar@pacbell.net

The heroic story of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo and other groups in Argentina who brought an end to the systematic killing of 30,000 young people under the guise of repressing communism.