Oh NOES!!!
We no longer have a venue for showing movies! If you’d like to host Tacomentary Night somewhere in the SLO county area send us an e-mail. Our contact info can be found on our About page.
What’s Tacomentary Night?!?
We get a bunch of friends together to make tacos and watch documentaries or other movies. Afterwards we talk about the film’s theme, analyze the production, and figure out how what we learned can be applied to making our own videos.
Do you want to make videos?
We’re getting everybody who’s anybody together to start a video production cooperative. Come brainstorm ideas for short films, music videos, documentaries, and any other videos you might want to make. Come join our crew!
If you have movies you’d like to contribute, let me know. Here are some examples of films that are both captivating and educational:
“Battle in Seattle”
Historical fiction about the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle co-starring Woody Harrelson among others.
“Nuclear Tipping Point”
“The more I got into nuclear weapons the more I realized these weapons must never be used. And then I become chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff in 1989 and I had 28,000 nuclear weapons under my supervision…. and the one thing I convinced myself of after all these years of exposure to the use of nuclear weapons was that they were useless.”
— Colin Powell
“Incident At Oglala”
A documentary about American political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
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“Thunderheart”
A fictionalized film starring Val Kilmer and Graham Greene dealing with the same subject.
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Is there a video project we could do to promote understanding of local Native American culture?
“Greensboro: Closer to the Truth”
A true documentary about the KKK killing worker’s rights activists in 1970’s North Carolina.
“The Internet’s Own Boy”
A documentary about Aaron Swartz, a hacktivist.
“Pete Seeger: The Power of Song”
The title says it all.
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“The Punk Singer”
Documentary about Kathleen Hanna, former lead singer of Bikini Kill.
“The Oath”
Documentary about 2 men who worked for Osama Bin Laden: one who ended up in Guantanamo Bay and the other who didn’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXLhJWDMXc
“Henry Kaiser: A Bunch of Guitar Solos”
Interesting music on unique guitars by a strange man.
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“Dreams Die Hard”
Human trafficking survivors share their stories.
“John Kennedy Toole: the omega point”
The life story of the author of A Confederacy of Dunces.
You can watch the whole movie online for free here