Hello hello!
Last year, as some of you might remember, Cinema Politica Vienna hosted a series of five screenings (check our previous newsletter here) focusing on the climate crisis and tracing the connections between ecological breakdown and other struggles across the globe.
We are part of an international network that supports the work of independent filmmakers. We try to bring socially engaged cinema to Vienna, to spark public engagement and political action. This year, however, we have a different plan, and…we need you!
Our concept
Vienna thrives with political activity and we know how many groups and organizations are already there, working towards a just and sustainable society. In order to support each other, and activism in general, this year we want Cinema Politica Vienna to be a space to develop together with your help/the help of your group, a space to present each other’s work to the public and connect with other associations or individuals.
We offer you our expertise and our resources (admittedly relatively limited).
You bring in who you are and the choice of a movie that represents you from the Cinema Politica database.
Together, we organize the screening, hoping to contribute to tie a bit more tightly together all the different threads of political engagement unraveling across Vienna.
Watching movies together can create communities, discussing movies together can be political: let’s make it happen!
Details
🗓️ Starting in April 2023, we are planning a series of ten screenings (one per month)
📌The screenings will be hosted at W23 (Wipplinger Strasse 23) with no entrance fee.
🎬 You will be able to choose the movie to be screened and we are open to define together the details of the event;
🍿Screenings will be in original language (often English) with English subtitles,
💸 Costs and fundings: there are no costs for you, as we will be able to cover the costs for the screening and the location. At the moment we cannot offer more than this, but we would be happy to share with the groups/organizations collaborating with us a portion of the money we will manage to get through the fundings we are applying for. Creating networks is great, but bringing in some money for the activists in Vienna would be a dream.
👉How to apply to this call👈
Pick one to three movies you would like to screen from the huge Cinema Politica database. Pick something you like or motivates you, something you know a lot about or you think is relevant for your activity!
Fill in this form until February the 12th.
Some topics we would be interested in (do not limit yourselves to these, we are open to other ideas!):
feminist and LGBTQIA+ struggles
environmentalism
decolonization and postcolonialism
workers’ rights
migrants, refugees and displaced communities
antifascism
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at wien@cinemapolitica.org.
Please, spread the word to your friends/comrades/groups!
Looking forward to hearing back from many of you,
Radical regards,
CP Vienna Team