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ĊINE’AMBJENT #5 — Alternative Futures
March 22, 2019 @ 18:00 - 21:00 CET
FreeThe Friends of the Earth Malta Environmental Film Club is centred around thematic documentary and film screenings linked to current environmental justice issues. For the ĊINE’AMBJENT #5 session we will be looking at Alternative Futures.
Every day the national and international headlines remind us that the world we are inhabiting today is indeed dystopian. We are the last generation to prevent the effect of climate change from becoming irreversible. Clearly, keeping up with the business like usual – economics based on unlimited growth – is irresponsible, not to say criminal. The environmental and social costs of this thirst for growth are too high: it generates enormous profits for a handful of companies while further impoverishing disadvantaged communities that will be most affected by climate change. The need for alternatives to the status quo has never been more urgent.
What kind of values does a socially and environmentally just society require? Stunning documentary ‘Un Paese Di Calabria’ by Catherine Catella offers a glimpse of what such a society could be like – one that is built on the premise of solidarity and mutual support instead of individual advancement and profit.
Un Paese di Calabria — 22nd March
For many years, the village of Riace bore the traces of substantial emigration towards the cities of the north and the wealthy countries. Houses in ruin and abandoned land characterised this dying village’s landscape. Then, one day in the summer of 1998, a boat carrying 200 Kurds washed ashore and the story of this village began anew. Riace, once a place from which one escaped, now attracts even more exiles, more men arriving from faraway, unwelcoming lands.
Panel Discussion
The film screening will be followed with a panel discussion. Joining us on the day will be:
Raisa Galea — Isles of the Left
Raisa Galea is a founding and editorial board member of the Isles of the Left magazine. Her key interests are social and environmental justice and techno-politics. She is also part of the Physical Oceanography Research Group at the University of Malta where she is working on analysis of marine data. Ever since moving to Malta in 2009, Raisa has been a tireless explorer of Malta’s society and does her best to be enthusiastic about the islands’ future however difficult this may be.
William Grech — Kopin
William Grech has been active in the development cooperation field since 2002 and participated to several activities and trainings on a wide spectrum of issues related to development cooperation and global education. Within Kopin, he reports to the Board and the General Assembly and is mainly responsible for the strategic planning and the overall administration of the organization. William was appointed Executive Director in July 2013 and he and he had previously fulfilled the role of Coordinator between January 2009 and June 2013. He is also very active in the design of project proposals, networking, capacity building, advocacy and research. William is also a member of the Board of SKOP (the National Platform of Maltese Development NGOs), a member of the Maltese AidWatch working group and of the Development Education and Awareness Raising working group. In the past, he collaborated with Inizjamed on a voluntary basis.
Kathrin Schödel — Institute of Utopian Studies
Kathrin is a founding member of the Institute of Utopian Studies, an independent platform for debate on ideas of social change and alternative concepts of living together, she is also part of the editorial team at IotL Magazine. Kathrin is a lecturer at the Department of German, University of Malta, and her research interests are in literature and politics, depictions of revolutions, constructions of gender roles, discourses of migration and utopian thought.
Rafael Pascual-Leone — Valletta Design Cluster
Rafael is Communities & Projects Officer at the Valletta Design Cluster at the a community space for cultural and creative practice now under construction in Valletta. The VDC will include a co-working space, prototyping workshop, community kitchen, creative incubator, and green roof. Rafael has degrees in architecture and in computer science, and is interested in human-centred design, usability, and the design of creative hubs. As part of the Design Cluster’s “hatchery initiative”, Rafael organizes meet-ups related to social innovation, and place-making.
The screening is free but places are limited. Submit in the form below to reserve your seat.
The film club will follow with the following thematic screenings:
- Food Systems & Agriculture
- Water Scarcity
- Climate Change and Island States
- Waste
- Fashion Industry and the Circular Economy
- Air Pollution
- 2 open sessions – An opportunity for participants to curate either with their choice of film or topic of interest.
The film club is co-curated between Friends of the Earth Malta, Kinemastik, and the presenters of each session.
If you are interested in presenting one of the sessions, assisting in the curation or the organisation of the film club, get in touch with Anastasia on anastasia@foemalta.org.
This session is organised in collaboration with Kinemastik and supported by Arts Council Malta – Creative Communities
