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From here on. Installations former coffee preparing plant near Managua 17/18th of February, 2013 Consuelo Mora Benard, Moisés Mora, Juan Carlos Mendoza, Darwin Andino, José Montealegre, Reni Hofmüller, Jogi Hofmüller, Florian Sorgo, Milo Strauß, Leo Kreisel-Strausz From here on. Presentation of the book desde aquí. von hier aus. Central park El Viejo, Chinandega, Nicaragua Sunday, February the 24th, 2013 3 p.m. Los /las Bananeros/as de Chinandega: Familia López Meza, Familia Morales, Jeronimo Lira, Francisco González y otros más, Colectivo veinti3 y RHIZOM From here on. Presentation of the book desde aquí. von hier aus. Centro Cultural de Espana en Nicaragua Managua, Nicaragua Wednesday, March the 6, 2013 7 p.m. Colectivo veinti3 y Florian Sorgo, Leo Kreisel-Strausz und Reni Hofmüller via Skype Exhibition desde aquí. von hier aus. Canal Imaginario May 3rd to 24th, 2013 RHIZOM in der KEPLERKOJE Wickenburggasse 40 & raum UND, Kebap Efendi Brockmanngasse 31 8010 Graz Special Events contemporary art in graz May 3rd to 5th, 2013 Presentation of the project von hier aus. desde aquí. Nicaragua-Österreich 2013 Canal Imaginario in context of contemporary art in graz Friday, May 3rd, 2013, 9 pm RHIZOM at the KEPLERKOJE Guided Tour with Thomas Miessgang in context of contemporary art in graz Sunday, May 5th , 13.45 pm RHIZOM at the KEPLERKOJE La Cumbiadera a la Javier Urrutia y Colectivo Veinti3 Music-Dance-Live-Drawing raum UND, Kebab Efendi Documentary films bananas! und Big boys gone bananas! von Fredrik Gertten Friday, May 24th, 2013, 6 pm RHIZOM at the KEPLERKOJE First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film! World Premiere at IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2011. North American Premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2012. BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* THE TRUE STORY ABOUT A SWEDISH FILMMAKER, A BANANA CORPORATION`S DIRTY TRICKS, MEDIA MANIPULATION, LAWSUITS AND THE PRICE OF FREE SPEECH. What is a big corporation capable of doing in order to protect its brand? Recently, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten experienced this personally. His previous film BANANAS!* recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers successfully brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. That film was selected for competition by the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Nothing wrong so far, right? But then just before leaving Sweden to attend the Los Angeles world premiere of his film, Gertten gets a strange message: the festival has decided to remove BANANAS!* from competition. Then, a scathing, controversial and misinformed article appears on the cover of the Los Angeles Business Journal about the film a week before the premiere. And subsequently, Gertten receives a letter from Dole's attorneys threatening legal action if the film is shown at this festival and to cease and desist. What follows is an unparalleled story that Gertten captured on film. He filmed this entire process of corporate bullying and media spin - from DOLE attacking the producers with a defamation lawsuit, utilizing scare tactics, to media-control and PR-spin. BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* can be seen as a thriller and a cautionary tale. But, mostly this is a personal story about what happened to Gertten, as a documentary filmmaker and to his company and how the livelihood of documentary filmmakers can be easily put into jeopardy. This powerful film reveals precisely how a multinational will stop at nothing to get its way - freedom of speech is at stake. As Dole's public relations company puts it, "It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad reputation". Trailer, texts and images are online at www.bigboysgonebananas.com Read the full story on www.bananasthemovie.com With the support of the Cultural Office of the City of Graz, the Culture Department of the State of Styria and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture