Artivist Screening 4: 5 Heroes / The One Wayz / Intersection
Event location: Shaw Theatre. Ongoing event.
 ARTIVIST 2010
5 Heroes PG (short film), directed by Lee Eelyn and in attendance
5 Heroes is a creative documentary about five Muslim girls from East London. Their personalities and aspirations are evoked through poetry and animated superhero characters both written and devised by themselves.
The One Wayz 12A (short film), directed by Linda Chavez
Fourteen-year-old Chato is forced to grow up too soon when immigration agents take his father from his home and deport him to Mexico. In his father's absence, Chato grapples with becoming the man of the house, and struggles to match up to the image of what his mother wants him to be. Chato's brown skin has everyone wondering when he'll turn delinquent, but he hopes to find a brighter future for himself between the pages of his books. When thirteen-year-old Ryan, a middle-class white kid caught in the crossfire of his parents' divorce, moves in across the street, he and Chato form a friendship that shakes their low-income Latino neighborhood. Though they're as different as night and day, the painful reality of their broken homes brings the boys face-to-face with the same decision: whether or not to get jumped into a gang. Chato and Ryan are left navigating this neighborhood, known as the One-Ways, where every street tries to convince them there's only one way they can go.
Intersection 15 (short film), directed by Jae Woe Kim, produced by MTV Exit, MTV Asia with USAID
Intersection is a stark, stylish, and high quality Anime (Japanese-style animation) that provides a hard-hitting look at human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Asia. It is a riveting story told from the perspectives of five individuals who all play a part in the trafficking chain: the victim, the trafficker, the mamasan (brothel owner), the brothel client and an undercover cop. The half-hour film features the voices of a Thai film star Ananda Everingham and MTV Asia VJ, Taya Rogers (English version). Intersection was produced by Korean animation studio, JM Animation, the award-winning studio behind the highly-acclaimed, visually haunting, 'Wonderful Days' (Sky Blue). The soundtrack features music by UK rock band, Radiohead and Thievery Corporation.
Artivist is the first international film festival dedicated to addressing human rights, children's advocacy, environmental preservation, and animal advocacy. Filmmakers from around the world unite at the annual festival to address the importance of art and advocacy in our global community. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of advocate artists " 'Artivists' " while raising public awareness of social global causes.
Since its inception in 2004, Artivist has showcased over 300 films representing more than 45 countries, reached over 20m people with its PR campaign and been endorsed by organisations such as Amnesty International, Global Green, HSUS, Prevent Child Abuse America and the United Nations. Films premiered at the festival have included Oscar-winner Born into Brothels, Oscar-nominee Super-Size Me, Fast Food Nation, Emmanuel's Gift, and Trudell. This year, Artivist proudly welcomes back for the third time Petrobras as its official community partner.
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