P&N's Film, Video & Documentary Thread

Chris Hedges to Poverty Scholars:
US Government Lacks Legitimacy


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Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary brought Chris Hedges to their Poverty Scholars Strategic Dialogues on Media and Religion and he delivered a monumental address urging the poor deal effectively with the right wing's grip on power, counter their fascistic racial targeting of Islam and other scapegoats like immigrants, gays, feminists, and lefties, by getting the public to see it's a deliberate distraction to prevent our realizing the need to replace obsolete economic institutions, a corrupt media, and a criminal government lacking in legitimacy. Poverty Initiative convened 90 Poverty Scholars--low-income organizers, faith leaders and media makers from over 41 organizations.

Ralph Nader Rips Obama, Praises Rep. Ron Paul

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Ralph Nader: Corporation Loyalty is to the Dollar Sign!

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Ralph Nader: "Why Aren't Corporate Crimes Prosecuted?"

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On April 20, 2010, author and political gadfly Ralph Nader gave a lecture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), in Baltimore, MD. He spoke before a near capacity audience for over an hour. Mr. Nader said corporate crimes, as opposed to "street crimes," go mostly under-reported by the establishment media in the U.S. and are "rarely prosecuted." He detailed how corporate "misbehavior, negligence and crimes" cost thousands of deaths every year in the country from "preventable" work-related diseases and injuries, [the Massey Mine Explosion]; air pollution; negligence in hospitals; and from medical malpractice cases. He also spotlighted how Wall Street insiders, using various schemes, looted "trillions of dollars" from workers pension funds. Mr. Nader added: "Forty-five thousand people die every year because they don't have any health insurance." Professor Fimin DeBrabander of MICA introduced Mr. Nader.

john stossel on drugs - special report, split into 6 sections

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Confessions of Robert Crumb

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Join the eccentric counterculture cartoonist R. Crumb (creator of Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Devil Girl, and the catchphrase "Keep on Trucking") for a journey to the center of his very warped mind in an irreverent personal essay/self-portrait produced for British television. Features interviews and humorous skits (mostly focusing on his perverse obsessions) starring Crumb and his wife Aline.

Documentary Fuels Gassy Debate Over Drilling

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A new documentary explores the consequences of a controversial natural gas drilling technique, which involves blasting rock with millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals to break it apart and release gas.

“GasLand” will premiere on HBO on June 21, and comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of the oil and gas industry in the wake of the BP oil disaster.

“GasLand” director Josh Fox began the project when natural gas drillers began using the technique, known as hydraulic fracturing, in the Catskill and Pocono mountain areas of upstate New York and Pennsylvania. One company offered his family $100,000 plus royalties to allow it to drill for gas on his property.

Fox then traveled across 24 states and interviewed residents affected by the drilling process, who complained that it had contaminated their water wells and caused multiple health problems. In one scene, a Colorado family claims gas has polluted their well, and to demonstrate sets their tap water on fire.

“The film started with just a basic inquiry into what was happening with gas drilling,” Fox told Reuters. “Quickly, though, I found out that it was a complete disaster for all the places that I visited.”

America’s Natural Gas Alliance, an industry group,estimates that in 2008, natural gas added $385 billion to the economy and constituted 25% of America’s primary energy consumption.

Gas industry groups challenged the film as oversimplified and lacking crucial details. The gas alliance has posted a rebuttal on its website. “Accuracy is too often pushed aside for simplicity, evidence too often sacrificed for exaggeration,” Chris Tucker of the industry group Energy in Depth said.

Jim Smith, a spokesman for the Independent Oil and Gas Association in New York said water from a drilling site may catch on fire because of methane that has migrated to the water, not gas. A Colorado government study recently linked methane in water to natural gas drilling.

“Gasland” won the Special Jury Prize for documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival this year.


http://www.fairwarning.org/2010/06/documentary-fuels-gassy-debate-over-drilling/

GASLAND Q & A at 2010 Sundance Film Festival

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I watched a pretty good documentary on HBO yesterday called "The Senator's Bargain" about Ted Kennedy and others trying to pass immigration reform. It was just interesting to see the process in action (or rather, inaction). It's old though and probably listed in here already.

Era!

Watched this this morning.

Very disturbing.

No, it isn't among the videos in this thread. I searched around but could only find a trailer. Will be on the lookout for the full doc. In the meanwhile, I'll catch it on HBO.

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FLOW: For Love of Water


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Tonight at 8:30pm EST on the Sundance Channel:
The alarming investigation into the growing world wide water crisis
is examined in the eye-opening documentary FLOW

Appeared at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

From South Africa and India to Bolivia and Michigan, Irena Salina's award-winning documentary presents a "galvanizing ... informed and heartfelt investigation" New York Times into the growing world water crisis. In the developing world, corporate interests and complicit governments have made drinkable water - previously a free natural resource - into the world's third-largest industry. Meanwhile, in the United States, bottled water is alarmingly unregulated and tap water may contain pollutants - even rocket fuel! "Smartly done" - L.A. Times.

Oliver Stone: South of the Border

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There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.

Reviews:

Wall Street Journal
Oliver Stone on Castro, Chavez: 'None of Them are Dictators'

Excerpt:

“None of them are dictators,” director Oliver Stone said, referring to the eight Latin American presidents — including Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Raul Castro — he interviewed for his newest documentary “South of the Border.” He said the “democratic leaders” he talked to for his new movie “do not have Wall Street’s interests at heart, and Wall Street doesn’t like people who change things. I recognize the link.”

The film, which follows Stone on a five-country South American tour, made its New York premiere Monday night at Cinema 123, with the director, screenwriter Tariq Ali, producer Fernando Sulichin and cinematographer Albert Maysles all in attendance. A group of roughly 25 protesters circled the entrance to the theater as dusk settled, and a mixture of shouts, cries and chants ensued as Stone, dressed dapperly in a cream suit and stark black tie, emerged from his car and walked the red carpet.

More: Oliver Stone on Castro, Chavez: 'None of Them are Dictators'

New York Times
Oliver Stone - Tour Guide

Political documentaries shadowed by paranoia and apocalyptic foreboding are so commonplace nowadays that “South of the Border,” Oliver Stone’s celebration of the leftward tilt of South American politics, comes as a cheerful surprise. As anyone who remembers “JFK,” his 1991 film about the Kennedy assassination, can attest, Mr. Stone has his own paranoid tendencies, but they are muted in this provocative, if shallow, exaltation of Latin American socialism.

During “South of the Border” Mr. Stone schmoozes with several left-wing political leaders, including his good buddy the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez; he takes Mr. Stone to his childhood home, where Mr. Chávez mounts a children’s bike that collapses under him. Mr. Chávez comes across as a rough-hewn but good-hearted man of the people whose bullheaded determination is softened by a sense of humor. At a corn-processing factory, he jokes: “This is where we build the Iranian atomic bomb. A corn bomb.” Ho, ho, ho.

Mr. Stone’s visit with Mr. Chávez is the movie’s longest interview with a Latin American statesman during what feels like a whirlwind tour of South American capitals...

More... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/movies/25south.html?_r=1

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Why We Fight
Sundance Grand Jury Winner, 2005

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Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its involvement in the wars led by the United States during the last fifty years, and in particular in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The film alleges that in every decade since World War II, the American public has been told a lie to bring it into war to fuel the military-economic machine, which in turn maintains American dominance in the world. It includes interviews with John McCain, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Gore Vidal and Joseph Cirincione. The film also incorporates the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son died in the September 11, 2001 attacks and then had his son's name written on a bomb dropped on Iraq; a 23-year old New York man who enlists in the United States Army citing his financial troubles after his only family member died; and a former Vietnamese refugee who now develops explosives for the American military.

Summer Documentaries on HBO

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Smash His Camera (June 7 - ending soon) Ron Galella is the original American paparazzo. Galella took iconic photographs of celebrities, including Marlon Brando, Andy Warhol and Jackie Onassis. The legendary photographer was at the center of the debate about the First Amendment versus the right to privacy. Smash His Camera is the 2010 Sundance Film Festival winner for Best Director. The film is directed by Leon Gast (Oscar winning film When We Were Kings).

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For Neda (June 14 - still showing) Neda Agha-Soltan, who became another tragic casualty of Iran's recent post-election protests on June 20, 2009, is remembered in For Neda. Unlike many unknown victims, Neda became an international symbol of the struggle when cell phone photographs of her blood-stained face were held aloft by protesters in Tehran and across the world, just hours after her death. The documentary, with exclusive access to her family in Iran, goes to the heart of who Neda was and what she stood for. For Neda illuminates the larger Iranian struggle for democratic freedoms through her powerful story. For Neda is directed by Antony Thomas.

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Gasland (June 21 - still showing) Gasland exposes the shocking potential repercussions of the recent boom in natural gas drilling, posing urgent questions about the little-known drilling process hydraulic fracturing and the industry that has managed to exempt itself from practically all environmental laws and regulations in a quest for clean energy and profits. The film won a Special Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary competition at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Gasland is directed by first-time filmmaker Josh Fox.

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Kevorkian (June 28 - still showing) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, known as Doctor Death is the controversial advocate of the right to die, ranging from his release after serving eight years in prison through his ill-fated run for Congress in 2008. The film features interviews with family, friends, journalists, attorneys and Dr. Kevorkian himself. Kavorkian is revealed to be a unique and complex renaissance man whose passion and knowledge continue to enlighten and sometimes enrage to this day. Directed by Matthew Galkin.

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No One Dies in Lily Dale (July 5) Lily Dale, NY is a Victorian-style village just south of Buffalo, New York. The village is home to the world's largest community of mediums, who claim to be able to communicate with the dead. Every summer thousands of people flock to the village from all over the world. The film follows some of the people who travel to Lily Dale in hopes of having questions answered and grief assuaged. No One Dies in Lily Dale is directed by Steven Cantor.

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A Small Act (July 12) - Kenyan Chris Mburu is followed as he jourines to find the stranger who sponsored his childhood education. A United Nations human rights advocate, Mburu has dedicated his life to battling genocide and other crimes against humanity. In paying tribute to his angel, Swedish school teacher and holocaust survivor Hilde Back, Mburu must confront his own past and Kenya's future. A 2010 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection; directed by Jennifer Arnold; produced by Jennifer Arnold, Patti Lee and Jeffrey Soros.

Lucky (July 19) Lottery winners and the complications new-found riches and shattering myths of the ultimate American Dream are explored in Lucky. Lottery winners are forced to cope with many complicated issues, including attorneys, security guards, changing friendships and scheming family members. Lottery winners are forced to reconsider who they are and what they want from life in the wake of this life-changing event. Lucky is directed by Jeffrey Blitz.

Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County (July 26) – As families struggle to survive in one of the wealthiest zip codes in America, homeless children are living in California motels. The documentary chronicles a summer in the lives of a class of homeless kids who attend a year-round school serving the children of the working poor in Orange County. Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County is directed and produced by Alexandra Pelosi.

12th and Delaware (August 2) - Ground zero for the abortion rights battle is on a street corner in Ft. Pierce, Florida, where a Women's World abortion clinic is across the street from the Pregnancy Care Center. The pro-life outpost is dedicated to heading off would-be abortion seekers at the pass. The film makers had access to both outfits and offers an eye-opening look at the ideological trench warfare that takes place. The film is directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.

El Expiritu De La Salsa (August 9) – People from all over New York City come together at the Santo Rico Dance School in Spanish Harlem to learn the rich art of salsa. Dance students include an E.R. doctor from Battery Park, a construction contractor from Queens, an equities trader from Wall Street, a policeman from Midtown Manhattan and a chronic fatigue sufferer from Washington Heights. This diverse people connect, let loose and learn to dance, under the tutelage of Tomas Guerrero. The dance students have just six weeks to rehearse for a public performance. Filmmakers are Jon Alpert, Francisco Bello, Matthew O'Neill and Timothy Sternberg.


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America - The Story of Us

http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us

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America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented. With highly realistic CGI animation, dramatic recreations and thoughtful insights from some of America's most respected artists, business leaders, academics and intellectuals, it is the first television event in nearly 40 years to present a comprehensive telling of America's history. Elaborate, ambitious and cinematic, America The Story of Us will take you into the moments when Americans harnessed technology to advance human progress, from the rigors of linking the continent by transcontinental railroad--the internet of its day--to triumphing over vertical space through the construction of steel structured buildings to putting a man on the moon. It is an intensive look at the people, places and things that have shaped our nation, and the tough and thrilling adventure that is America's 400-year history.

Gravitas to Launch
100 “Documentaries on Demand” with PBS

by Bryce J. Renninger via indieWIRE

http://www.indiewire.com/article/gravitas_ventures_to_launch_documentaries_on_demand_with_pbs/

PBS Distribution and Gravitas Ventures unveiled a new monthly transactional On-Demand package for cable, satellite and other providers throughout North America. Featuring 30 hours of titles available to rent, including 10 new hours every month, “Documentaries On-Demand” will debut this Fall.

Under the plan, films viewable via its “Documentaries on Demand” will be available for 90 days, with roughly 100 films to be released through the VOD channel per year. Documentaries on Demand will join Gravitas’ lineup of already established VOD channels: Gravitas New Movies on Demand, Gravitas Events on Demand, and Gravitas Horror.

The company announced five films that will be included in the first month of programming. Three are from PBS: Kevin Shaw’s “The Street Stops Here,” a profile of high school basketball coach Bob Hurley, Sr., Peter Bisanz’s “Beyond Our Differences,” an exploration of religious dialogue, and Barak Goodman’s “My Lai,” which documents the Vietnam massacre. And two more are from Gravitas’ collection: Chip Mabry’s “Brutal Beauty: Tale of the Rose City Rollers,” the story of a roller derby team in Portland, Oregon and Bob Corna’s “Tiny Tears,” in which Danny Glover narrates a journey that explores the lives of chidren affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda, Thailand, Brazil, and the U.S.

“The PBS brand is synonymous with high-caliber content and we are thrilled to work with them to launch and market the Documentaries On-Demand package,” commented Nolan Gallagher, founder and CEO of Gravitas Ventures. “Through this collaboration, we are able to provide our operator partners a vast roster of over 100 films every year that are sure to enthrall documentary lovers, as well as those captivated by incredible storytelling.”

“We are always exploring new ways to serve a broader audience and generate critical revenue to support the PBS mission,” added Andrea Downing, co-president of PBS Distribution. “Offering our top-performing programs on VOD is a natural next step for us as consumer viewing habits evolve.”

Although the Demand package will include 10 hours of new documentary content every month, each title will also be available to a consumer as a separate film available to rent for $4.99.

Crude: The Real Price of Oil

Official Site: http://www.crudethemovie.com/

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Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, Crude is a real-life, high stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures.

Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. "Rarely have such conflicts been examined with the depth and power of Joe Berlingers documentary Crude. These real characters and events play out on the screen like a sprawling legal thriller." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times

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Since the 1960's, US oil giant Chevron has been drilling for oil in the rainforests of Ecuador. During this time, they've managed to dump more oil and other byproducts into nearby ecosystems than were spilled from the Exxon Valdez. On top of this, they've also been committing some of the worst human rights abuses in modern times. But in spite of all of this, the company has yet to face any real legal ramifications for their actions. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. talks with award-winning documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger, whose new film "Crude: The Real Price of Oil," talks about these atrocities, and the burgeoning efforts to bring Chevron to justice.

Racism: A History (BBC)


Part One, The Color of Money

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Part Two, Fatal Impacts

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Part Three, A Savage Legacy

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A documentary which is exploring the impact of racism on a global scale, as part of the season of programs marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.

Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race.

The third and final episode of Racism: A History examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century. By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa. Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation. Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century’s greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule. Contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.

Beginning in June 2007, Sebastian Junger, left, and Tim Hetherington
began spending long stretches of time embedded with an American
platoon in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. Junger, an author using
a video camera professionally for the first time, and Hetherington,
a professional war photographer, used 150 hours of footage from
the field to create "Restrepo," a gritty documentary of life on
the frontlines in one of the most dangerous battlegrounds on earth.

R E S T R E P O

ONE PLATOON, ONE YEAR, ONE VALLEY

http://www.restrepothemovie.com


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Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for a Documentary, RESTREPO chronicles the deployment of a U.S. platoon of courageous American soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, considered to be one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. From May 2007 to July 2008, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger dug in with the men of the Second Platoon, Battle Company of the 503rd Infantry Regiment (airborne), stationed at Restrepo, sharing duties and shooting more than 150 hours of combat, frustration, routine, jokes, terror and bravery during daily life at the outpost. Hetherington and Junger, have made a film unlike any other about men in harms way. We see their courage. We experience their frustrations. We share their bonding. We hear the music they listen to, and we see the snapshots of their kids that they pass around. It is something that audiences have never before experienced. As they fight the Taliban, these 15 men win our hearts and minds in a way no fictional film can.


More about the documentary:

Washington Post: 'Restrepo' brings new elements to the war documentary

Washington Post: In 'Restrepo,' the Afghan war's brutality as viewed through the soldier's scope

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The Tillman Story

Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat's mother, "Dannie" Tillman, led the family's crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son's life and death. Narrated by Josh Brolin and featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat's fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev's emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat's death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.

Passion Pictures presents "The Tillman Story" set to be released on August 20th, 2010.

8: The Mormon Proposition


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Director Reed Cowan initially planned on making a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah but soon realized that the homophobia that prompts otherwise loving parents to kick teenagers out of their homes is deep-seated in current Mormon ideology. Cowan, with his fellow filmmakers, experienced first-hand what it was like to grow up gay in Utah in the Mormon faith, then turned their attention to the historic campaign by the Mormon Church to pass Proposition 8 in California believing that it was the cornerstone of an ideology that has worked for decades to damage gay people and their causes. The film is their emotional outcry to what they found.

LA Times Review

Newsweek Review

Washington Post Review

Please Remove Your Shoes

http://www.pleaseremoveyourshoesmovie.com/

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Please Remove Your Shoes is a revealing documentary about broken government process. It is also an empathetic story about a half dozen public servants who try to fix it. And it is a familiar topic to all of us who have flown in the last fifteen years:the security routine at the airport, first the FAA and now the TSA.

Please Remove Your Shoes is a revealing documentary about broken airport security and the TSA. Please Remove Your Shoes examines the period before 911 and the current situation nine years later and asks the questions that make Washington squirm: Are we really any better for all our money spent? Or is it safe to say that nothing has changed?

Stonewall Uprising

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Stonewall Uprising, the 82-minute documentary produced by PBS’s American Experience and directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, seeks to educate contemporary audiences as to what really happened over 40 years ago. The film made the round of film festivals this past year, and is now available to purchase.

Stonewall Uprising delves into the riots and the way in which gays fought back. Everyone was mad. Even the Black Panthers joined in against the police with the disenfranchised street kids, hustlers, and drag queens that comprised the rioters.

Read review by Mayor Koch on Huffington Post

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David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

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The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in "What the bleep do we know?;" and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management. [events] [artshumanities] Credits: producers:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services, speaker: David Lynch, speaker: John Hagelin, Ph.D., speaker: Fred Travis, Ph.D.

SNAGFILMS :sun: SUMMERFEST

Building on the success of last year’s inaugural run of free, on-demand web streaming of award-winning and world premiere non-fiction films, SnagFilms released its second annual SummerFest lineup. The SnagFilms SummerFest 2010 films, which will be available to online audiences between July 16 and September 2, include:

• The Age of Stupid - Fri, July 16 – Thurs, July 29
• Shooting Robert King - Fri, July 23 – Thurs, August 5
• Disco and Atomic War - Fri, July 30 – Thurs, August 12
• Videocracy - Fri, August 6 – Thurs, August 19
• A Fighting Chance - Fri, August 13 – Thurs, August 26
• The Socalled Movie - Fri, August 20 – Thurs, September 2

Each film will debut for a sneak peek two week run on SnagFilms.com and be available throughout the company’s distribution network, including AOL.com, Hulu.com and Fancast.com for two weeks, as they head toward theatrical or television distribution. This unique program allows SnagFilms to open up new distribution channels and build a fan base for documentary filmmakers.

The Age of Stupid

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* * * Watch in its entirety now through Thurs, July 29 * * *

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_age_of_stupid/

The Age of Stupid launched as the world’s biggest live film event which reached a million people in 63 countries. Led to the “10:10” climate change campaign - now in 42 countries Winner, Grierson Documentary Award, 2008. Nominated, Best Documentary, British Independent Film Awards.

Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Pulling together clips of archive news and documentaries from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why, Pete's exploration surfaces compelling footage and complex issues facing us in our world today. He asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? From Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September.)