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3001 | 06. November 2008 | 21.00h

As politicians stand up and promise 'change' to the nation, what are the people who need it the most doing to make a difference in their own communities with nothing at their disposal but their own creativity?
Living together in a converted school bus, a wildly diverse group of artists, filmmakers, and musicians leaves Los Angeles behind looking for answers and searching for the intersection of Art and Politics in America.
Pocket Change is a road movie truly like no other: meet everyone from guerilla poster artist Robbie Conal to controversial film director Oliver Stone; militant hip hop duo Dead Prez to Hurricane Katrina survivors in New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Follow the LAFCO (Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative) crew as they search for, and find, 'pockets of change' in the most downtrodden parts of America.
From Venice Beach to Brooklyn, New York, through the Southwestern desert to the deep south, this is a portrait of the United States seldom seen in the mass media.
'You're trying to change things by doing pure actions. In an impure world, that's a beautiful thing.' -Oliver Stone

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A 60-something liberal woman in the Bible Belt shares her thoughts on Obesity and Religion.

A 60 something Grandma working a phone sex line in a small Southern ghost town

TRIBUTE: Stanley Tookie Williams, 1953 - 2005 | Barbara Becnel
USA/Südafrika 2008 | 66 MIN.

This 66-minute film—TRIBUTE: Stanley Tookie Williams, 1953-2005—is a powerful documentary that examines death row prisoner, Crips gang co-founder, children’s book author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley Tookie Williams. The international campaign for clemency to save him from death by lethal injection ended on December 13, 2005, at 12:35 a.m., when he was pronounced dead after clemency was denied by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. TRIBUTE includes scenes from a staged reenactment of that execution. The reenactment—as well as TRIBUTE—were produced and directed by writer Barbara Becnel and producer Shirley Neal, longtime friends of Stanley Tookie Williams. It was based on their real-life experience at San Quentin’s death chamber witnessing his botched execution—it took him 35 minutes to die. The two women filmed the staged reenactment, enabling TRIBUTE to offer a very intimate view of capital punishment. TRIBUTE includes provocative eulogies by Snoop Dogg, Tony Robbins and Louis Farrakhan—speaking at the memorial service of Stanley Tookie Williams—and never-before-seen footage of his ashes scattered by Becnel and Neal in South Africa, as he wished.

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