NOVEMBER 29, 2004
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REAL NEBRASKA WEB SITE
Voting on First Round of Real Nebraska
Videos Continues
Voting on the Fall 2004 Real Nebraska
video contest continues this week on the Real Nebraska website.
Using the theme "There is No Place Like Nebraska," entries were taken
from full time UNL students and/or teams of full time UNL students.
In addition to three monetary prizes, winners of the contest will
be screened at a film festival that will take place in March at the
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. All entries will be shown and
the "Viewer's Choice" winners, as well as the Grand Prize winner,
will be announced at this event. The festival will be open to the
public and the campus.
REAL
NEBRASKA |
EAST UNION , 3PM
Center for Grassland Studies Seminar -
'Integrated Weed Management in Conservation Buffers'
Janyce Woodard, graduate student, UNL
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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, NOV 29 - DEC 1
World AIDS Day to be marked by
week of programming at UNL
The University Health Center
Sexuality Education eXchange and PERSUNL Program at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln will mark its 13th annual observance of World
AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with a variety of programming during the week
of Nov. 29-Dec. 3. The programming will be presented under the theme
'HIV is an issue for everyone and everyone can do something to make
a difference.'
The PERSUNL Program (Peers Encouraging
Responsible Sexuality at UNL) will have an HIV/AIDS educational display
in the alcove of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Nov. 30-Dec. 3.
The display will include a timeline and other relevant information
about the global, national and local impact of HIV/AIDS. The display
will be in conjunction with the Names Quilt display sponsored by
the University Program Council. The Names Quilt panels will be on
display all week in the Union ballroom.
Activities on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, include:
• More than 100 members of the UNL campus community will wear World
AIDS Day T-shirts as an awareness-raising project. The people wearing
the T-shirts will symbolically represent the number of people on
a campus the size of UNL who could potentially be living with HIV/AIDS.
• At 5:30 p.m., there will be a program in the Union ballroom commemorating
World AIDS Day. The program will include representatives from community
and campus organizations that support or provide education and services
related to HIV/AIDS. Lincoln City Council member Terry Werner will
present the World AIDS Day proclamation signed by Gov. Mike Johanns.
• At 7 p.m. Dec. 1, there will be a free showing of the movie A Closer
Walk at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St. A
Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation
with the global AIDS epidemic. Subjects and story lines encompass
the broad spectrum of the global AIDS experience and include people
with HIV/AIDS from all walks of life.
For more information about any of the above, please contact Pat Tetreault
in the University Health Center at (402) 472-7447
PERSUNL | MRRMAC | A
CLOSER WALK
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Nicotina, Woman
Thou Art Loosed
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Mexico's highest grossing film in 2003, Nicotina and
the film Woman Thou Art Loosed, a screen adaption of the
play by legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West
Angeles Cathedral.
From the producers of Amores Perros comes Nicotina, a
highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange
that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters
to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds.
Diego Luna stars as computer hacker Lolo, who is infatuated with
his neighbor Andrea (Marta Belaustegui) and catalogs her every move
via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals
Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and his younger counterpart Nene (Lucas Crespi)
in a deal with a Russian mobster (Norman Sotolongo) that involves
the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts.
But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's
romantic trysts spiral out of control.
Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto (Daniel Gimez Cacho)
and his fed-up wife Clara (Carmen Madrid) inadvertently become entangled
in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo (Rafael Inclan)
and his domineering other half Carmen (Rosa Maria Bianchi).
Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with
the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly
transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears,
computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have
gone up in a cloud of smoke.
This R-rated Christian film about child abuse, drug addiction and
murder is startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of
those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with
Jesus. Directed with seamless competence by Hollywood veteran Michael
Schultz (Car Wash), Woman, Thou Art Loosed is based
on the fact-based novel and stage presentation of the same name by
the legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West Angeles
Cathedral. Jake, a preacher of improvisational genius, plays himself
in the film as he counsels a death-row inmate whose story unfolds
in smoothly integrated flashbacks. Michelle (Kimberly Elise) was
fighting back valiantly from the effects of child sexual abuse and
incarceration when she backslid with a vengeance.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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