SCREENVILLE: Cultural Diversity Awareness

October 2011 is Cultural Diversity Awareness month in the USA!
"Embrace diversity, embrace the World!" says the slogan... that's the theory.

If you believe that art should be a boundless means of communication throughout the world, despite the "invisible hand of the free market", despite the national-centric protectionism of national culture, despite the artificial and timely hierarchy of entertainment norms, despite the close-minded taste of the mainstream mass... please consider contributing to this month-long proactive campaign of WORLD CINEMA awareness, because art cinema from around the world deserves a better visibility, in every country, than what it currently gets in commercial theatres. Post your own artwork, articles, analyses, photos, statistics... and share the links to identify the cultural discrimination imposed by the industry and lazy cultural arbiters and to overcome its barriers through plebiscite and consumption changes. Talk about movies celebrating cultural diversity, opening borders, welcoming foreign culture, altruism, philoxeny or denouncing censorship, isolationism, exclusion, marginalisation of foreign films.

USA-Mexico border wall, 2008

De l'autre côté (2002/Chantal Akerman/France/Belgium/Australia/Finland)
Los Bastardos (2008/Amat Escalante/Mexico/France/USA) USA distribution = 1 screen / 1 week / 500 spectators
Norteado (2009/Rigoberto Pérezcano/Mexico/Spain)