When Clouds Clear

Screening @ the Alameda Smithsonian

7pm

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The Alameda website is totally vague on calendar events, so it doesn’t give details on cost or exact location. Duh. Attention: PR Department, post vital information for visitors and maybe they might start going to your community events…
Here’s a synopsis of the documentary that looks pretty good:

When Clouds Clear is an award winning documentary that delves into one remote community’s radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever.

Set in the isolated cloud forests of the Andes, the film is narrated by the founders and children of Junin. Two mining communities are brazen in their attempts to control and infiltrate the community…