November 30th Friday
BeyondTV Festival Party
Location: Monkey Café, 13 Castle street opposite Swansea castle (4min walk from Swansea Train stn).
Buy tickets on door:£5 before 10pm/ £7 after

8pm Festival music videos, short films & launch of ‘On the Push’- a new monthly online sufing video series from Undercurrents.

plus top band ‘ The Savage Jazz' and DJ Vadim from New York.

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December 1st Saturday

Location: Taliesen Arts Centre Cinema, Swansea, Wales, SA2 8PZ.Box office Phone 01792 602060

Tickets: £5/£3.75 students/£4.25concessions
Special offer: Weekend Festival Ticket £10 (Save £5).

Session *1 Hosted by Helen iles , co-founder of Undercurrents

2pm – 4pm THINK GLOBAL ACT LOCAL
An eclectic and inspiring compilation of documentaries, short films, animations and music videos. Includes:

A-Z of Bushcraft- (12mins) woodland skills on Gower Peninsula. Discussion with Andrew Price of Dryad Bushcraft.

More for Swansea (5min) -Menter Iaith Abertawe (The Welsh Language Initiative) is working to develop the use of the Welsh

Burning Bush (5min) Music video from Seize the Day. Taking a light hearted look at GW Bush.

Circus4Life (10min) An insight into the everyday lives of the Afghan people in Kabul. (Dir: Zahra Qadir )

Tara awake (10min) international campaign to stop a Toll motorway destroying Irelands ancient Hill of Tara in Co Meath.

On the Push (10mins) a new series about surfing and how climate change is affecting it in Wales.

The First Wave (5min) An entire island of people sinks underwater due to climate change. (Dir:Pip Starr)

Bus Kong (3min) Animation about the old London Bus by Ed Hartwell

Banksy (4min) Bristol Grafitti artist whose work now sells for £500,000. See the artist in action.
(Dir:Squall prod.)

Those left behind (11min) Dawn raids on asylum seekers in Scotland (Dir: Camcorder Guerillas)

Pistol to Me (3) Musical animation by Roger and Ruth Whiter

Cheat Nutreal (13mins)? Those who have cheated on their partners can have their cheating 'offset' by a global network of fidelity. (Dir: Beth Stratford)

The land on which we stand (30min) Living in Yurts near Totnes in South West England. An insight into the vibrant community of people living close to nature. (Dir:Becky Lane)

Eco Village Pioneers trailer (2mins)

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Session *2

5pm-6pm FREE ENTRY- OPEN TO ALL

Welsh Not- (10min) A film project that links the historic English repression of Welsh language to valley teenagers of here and now. Produced by young people from Ysgol Llangatwg in an 'engagment' with artist Naomi Leake.

EcoVillage Pioneers- (50mins)
Discovering new ways of living in harmony with our natural environment. Focused mainly upon the uphill challenge in obtaining planning permission to establish a low impact community in Pembrokeshire. (Dir: Helen iles)

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Session *3 Hosted by D Murphy of Undercurrents

7.30pm- 10pm GLOBAL VIEWS
Tickets: £5/£3.75 students/£4.25concessions

Big Noise films are New York based video activists. Includes discussion with co-founder Rick Rowley.
Screening the following:
Homeless Power (10min) Inspiring insight into how one homeless woman set about challenging poverty in the USA. (Dir: Big Noise films)

4th World War (excerpt) Radical views from the southern part of the planet(Dir: Big Noise films)

Deserter (excerpt) -the journey a soldier and his young wife ­as they flee across the USA to seek refugee status over the Canadian border. (Dir: Big Noise films)

Vision On TV -A new internet TV channel from undercurrents.. VisionOnTv.net presents the future of internet TV. Includes excerpts from shows including Zaproot, End of the world, Terra and Onion News.

Beyond The Forest (28min) Can an action movie save the Indian Tiger from extinction? (Dir: Indivision Films)??

Shock Doctrine (6.5min) Naomi Klein (no logo) explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades (Dir Alfonso Curon)

Cows with Guns (4min) (Dana Lyons/ Bjorn-Magne) Music animation
Arming the most docile beasts on planet earth.

Coca Zero- (45mins)How the coca leaves of Bolivia has been turned into a criminal commodity through cocaine abuse in the West. (Dir: Martha Gutierrez Flores)

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December 2nd Sunday

Location: At the National Waterfront Museum, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, SA1
10am -Green Fayre & local Farmers produce market.

Organised by the Swansea Environment Centre.

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December 2nd Sunday

Location: Taliesen Arts Centre Cinema, Swansea, Wales, SA2 8PZ.Box office Phone 01792 602060

Noon Vision On TV FREE
Undercurrents will be video recording the events at Beyond TV for the festival website. Join the audience for a live TV studio chat show with the filmmakers invited to discuss the making of their films.

Session *4

Tickets: £5/£3.75 students/£4.25concessions

2pm New directors (15min) -films and awards to the most accomplished films from the Undercurrents training course 2007

Black Gold (95mins) - The bitter taste of injustice behind high street lattes and cappuccinos. How impoverished coffee growers suffer in this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price for Coffee. (Dir: Marc & Nick Francis)
What is BeyondTV?
Undercurrents present a full programme of short movies, documentaries, music videos & animation from inspiring media producers.

All films will have a theme of social or environmental activism. Hosted in the very heart of Swansea, BeyondTV promises to be an entertaining week with all proceeds going to to support the charity work of undercurrents.

Where is BeyondTv being held?
Taliesen Cinema, Swansea, Wales, SA2 8PZ. Box office Phone 01792 602060
Monkey Cafe , SA1 1JF. opposite Swansea castle for the BeyondTv party.
Dylan Thomas Centre SA1 1RR. Swansea Marina

What's can I expect to see & hear ?
Inspiring media workshops, superb home grown & global films, great music, comedians, food & drink a plenty.

What are the themes for submissions?
The theme of your subvert, animation or documentary should be social or environmental action. No dramas using actors will be chosen.

When can I go Beyond TV?
We begin Wednesday November 28th and the main festival day is Saturday December 1 with final screening on Sunday December 2nd

Where do I get a ticket?
Phone 01792 602060

Staying in Swansea
Swansea has a large number of B+B's and Hotels in the town centre and along the seafront.