Friday, October 20
Power Trip (maps 1, 2)
dir. Paul Devlin, USA 2003

Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.  Power Trip provides insight into today's headlines, with a graphic, on-the-ground depiction of the challenges facing globalization in an environment of culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.

On the heels of the latest upheaval in Georgia (that is, the troubled former republic of the Soviet Union, not Scarlett O'Hara's home state), the documentary "Power Trip" gives an up-close look at a poor communist country's transition to capitalism through an unexpected vehicle — the local power company. - Joshua Tanzer, Offoffoff.com