Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Film festival shines a bright light on city's dirty problems

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Film festival shines a bright light on city's dirty problems

A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A number of non-governmental environmental organizations will hold the South to South Film Festival 2008 at the Goethe Institute in Central Jakarta from Jan. 25 to Jan. 27.

The festival, which has been organized by the Jatam mining advocacy network, the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) and Forest Watch, will screen 16 documentary films from 11 countries, including Indonesia, Guatemala, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, the Czech Republic and Australia.

"The festival is aimed at raising public awareness on the environmental damage here. We hope many people will come to the free festival," Jatam coordinator Siti Maimunah told a press conference here Tuesday.

Maimunah said most of the films in the festival, which is titled "Vote for Life", come from developing countries with rich natural resources, but where many people live in poverty.

Walhi chairman Chalid Muhammad said the festival's theme came out of the idea that environmental issues could not be separated from legal and political aspects.

"So, the festival also aims to ask people to vote for leaders who have great concern for the environment in next year's general elections," Chalid said in the conference.

Meanwhile, film director Rizki Rinanto Sigit, whose film Teluk Jakarta Under Pressure will be screened at the festival, welcomed the event, saying that many documentary filmmakers needed a special arena to show their work.

"There are many documentary filmmakers, but we have a limited place to show our work. So the festival is very good for us," Sigit said at the conference.

He said his film was about the damage done to Jakarta by garbage and the city's poor planning system.

He said the public could also learn how to make a documentary as the festival would organize a discussion with filmmakers, including Mira Lesmana and Javari Firdaus, at the Goethe Institute on Jan. 26 and Jan 27.

Malaysian director Hilary Chiew is scheduled to attend the discussions to speak about her film Penusa Tana (The Forgotten Struggle).

Besides the discussions, the festival will hold a photo exhibition which will display pictures of environmental damage in developing countries.