“WE HAVE ALL GONE BANANAS!” - Camcorder Guerilla Cinema is back for 2007

To start off the year, Camcorder Guerillas presents a two-hour programme featuring films by local artist and filmmaker Jan Nimmo...

Programme:

Mystery Short...

Bonita: Ugly Bananas (2004)
Glasgow based artist, Jan Nimmo, has been gathering images and testimonies to make a series of portraits of banana workers since 2000. In 2002 she made a field trip to Ecuador. Although Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas, the workers have the lowest pay and the worst conditions in the whole of Latin America. Ecuador's biggest banana baron is Álvaro Noboa of Bonita Brands. Noboa is the country's richest man and owns the world's fourth largest banana company but his workers were only paid $3.00 a day - less than the legal minimum wage. When Jan met workers who decided to organise and strike to gain the most basic of labour rights she was able to film the conditions within their plantation. She then found herself witnessing a violent attack on the peaceful occupation of a Bonita banana plantation called Los Alamos.

More Mystery...

Pura Vida? (2006)
Pura Vida?, Jan’s second film, exposes the devastating effects that agrochemicals used on Costa Rica's pineapple and banana plantations have on workers, communities and the environment. She worked with local trade unionist, Carlos Arguedas and his union, SITRAP to make this film. The film was premiered at Document 4 Human Rights Film Festival in Glasgow, Scotland - Oct 2006

Followed by Q&A Artist and Filmmaker Jan Nimmo

For more information on these two films and the Green Gold art project/campaign, log on:
http://www.greengold.org.uk

And also prior, during and after the screening...a chance to wonder at the Radical Independent Book Fair Stall:
RIB - Radical Independent Book Fair:Glasgow's Radical Independent Book fair project...

...a travelling bookstall and temporary library...a meeting point for distribution and ideas...supporting small press publishers and independent producers...circulating radical reading materials and information...occasional and bi-monthly events...

For further information see:
www.camcorderguerillas.net