Progressive Film Goers Survey

by: wjhamilton 29464

Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 22:39:48 PM EDT

Balloting to select the films for our early August Progressive Dinner and a Movie in N. Charleston has already begun.  The more people who vote, the better this will work.  Please consider these options and take a look at the previews and other materials available through the links.  Then click the link at the bottom of this post to go to the Survey Monkey to vote.  All the films are linked to the healthcare issue.

Half the net proceeds will go to the Charleston County Democratic Party.

Voting continues to July 8, 2009.  Please spread the word about this effort.

The nominees are set out in the extended text

Drama
Swimmers
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Swimmers/70056469

The  Hospital
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Hospital/60011185

Comedy
Damaged  Care (the musical, not the TV movie)
http://www.damagedcare.com/

Critical  Care
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118901/

Full-length  Documentaries
King Corn
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/kcorn.html

The  Future of Food
https://www.futureoffoodstore.com/Catalog/tabid/1570/CategoryID/2/List/1/Level/a/productid/246/Default.aspx

Critical  Condition
http://www.pbs.org/pov/criticalcondition/

Health  for Sale
http://newsreel.org/downloads/UnnaturalCauses.pdf

Donka:  X-Ray of an African Hospital
http://icarusfilms.com/new97/donka___x.html

Fallon,  NV: Deadly Oasis 
http://www.newday.com/films/FallonNV.html

Half-length  Documentaries
I Am Somebody
http://www.icarusfilms.com/cat97/f-j/i_am_som.html

Big  Bucks, Big Pharma 
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=224

The  Health Protesters
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/clhp.html

Shorts  (6-10 minutes films)
Hoffman’s Potion- Media Matters Film Festiva

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439611/

Vintage  Shorts (shown in addition to other films)
Joan Avoids a Cold  (1947)
http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/3675256

Charley:  Birth of National Health Service
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_cyvgh.htm

If you're ready to make your reccomendations the Survey Monkey awaits you. Click the following link to take the survey and vote. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ABwcOFPxJdll2yHyKvXyhw_3d_3d

A newsletter blurb on this project can be found in the extended text below.

Lowcountry Progressives and Democrats invite Voting on Film for Movie Night

Lowcountry residents interested in progressive and Democratic films can vote online to help select the films to be shown at a progressive Dinner and a Movie night planned for early August in N. Charleston. Voting began June 22nd. The films focus on the national issue of health care. The ballot includes King Corn, a documentary on the impact of the government subsidized corn industry; Damaged Care, a satirical musical on health care issues; Donka: X-Ray of an African Hospital and I am Somebody, a recently digitally premastered historic documentary about the Charleston Hospital Strike during the Civil Rights movement. 16 films are on the ballot. Voting is open to any interested person and will continue until July 8 at http://www.indigojournal.com/diary/915/progressive-film-goers-survey online.