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New York City based content producers for motion pictures, broadcast television, and the internet via webisodes.New York City based content producers for motion pictures, broadcast television, and... more
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Against all the odds an individual manages to create an annual global 'Peace Day'; but can he inspire an actual ceasefire and silence the cynics by proving the day can actually save lives?
Appearances by Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, MIchael Douglas, Jane Goodall, the UN Security Council, the UN secretary General, and more
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“Hamburger Eyes” is a 4-min. short documentary by Nick Fogarty about the photographers who put together the black and white photo-zine “Hamburger Eyes.” The photo-zine is centered on a collective of photographers living in San Francisco; it represents a movement that’s come to be known as “Lifestyle” photography, meaning that both the photographers and subject matter seem to be in their natural environment. The documentary captures images in a brilliant way. It’s very unique and certainly not your ordinary, boring photography.
This piece presents a number of remarkable black and white photographs, as well as the brilliant documentary short, “Hamburger Eyes.“Hamburger Eyes” is a 4-min. short documentary by Nick Fogarty about the... more
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The picturesque town of Taijii, Japan, has a dark, horrifying secret that it doesn’t want the rest of the world to know.The picturesque town of Taijii, Japan, has a dark, horrifying secret that it... more
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We stopped the Vietnam war, purportedly with two pictures, Execution by Eddie Adams, and Nick Út's photo of a naked girl running with her clothes burned off by napalm. We were so outraged by these photos that we pressured our government to get out of Vietnam.
Your government, the U.S. government, has learned that to wage war they must censor all media. There are virtually no images of the current wars. The ones you do see are approved by the Pentagram so as to convey your perception that things aren't all that bad. But as you read accounts of the many atrocities committed by the U.S. you find that we are waging a racist preemptive genocide and torture against Muslims with horrors far beyond anything we've ever seen or known about, outside of the Holocaust. 1.5 million innocent Iraqis have been killed, mostly by U.S. troops. If it were not for public pressure and the election of President Obama, we would be at war with Iran right now, as well.
You can do something. What we the people can do, what you can do, to stop war is to increase your awareness, public awareness, of the reality of the facts that the United States of America does not stand for your freedom, the freedom of it's own people or anyone else's. Our troops do not protect your freedom.
They endanger your freedom by killing innocent Muslims and thereby motivating their survivors to join the Taliban and other ant-U.S. insurgencies. Your troops fight and die in vain. A third of them come home with illness and injuries, lost limbs, deformed faces and bodies, and damaged minds from the experience of killing innocent women, children, babies, boys, and men who are very much like their own family. They don't realize this when they are at war. They are following orders and acting under tremendous peer pressure to kill, kill, kill, which is the extent of military training.
But once they return to civilized society, they are faced with their memories of the faces of those they killed. Many end up committing suicide or are so mentally debilitated they can't hold a job. These brave men and women put their lives on the line honorably in what they thought was a fight for your freedom. They were duped by the lies of recruiters and of your government in illegal unjust wars.
The Taliban never attacked the U.S. Iraq never attacked the U.S. But Osama Bin laden, a CIA operative under the tutelage of George H.W. Bush, is free. Why?
You can support your troops. It is your duty as the fourth branch of government to proliferate images and stories of the truth about war and about your racist genocidal military. Join the Stop War Project or simply read our blogs to learn more about how you can help.
Iranians avoid worse atrocities than there could be by using the internet and Twitter. You can do the same by spreading news. Tweet the body counts that come in almost daily. The media largely ignores body counts. But you have the power to remind people by posting and re-posting images of war and torture, stories of body counts, atrocities, and genocides. It worked for Vietnam.
Keep posted on our projects and videos: Sign up at http://outinthestreet.ning.com.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/StopWarProject
Blog: http://stopwar.lafilmonline.com
ReThink Afghanistan: http://ReThinkAfghanistan.com
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan: http://RAWA.org
Iraq Veterans Against War: http://IVAW.org
The Three Trillion Dollar War: http://ThreeTrillionDollarWar.com
Visit us to find feeds, lists of ant-war veterans groups, media websites, other anti-war organizations and books. Do something.We stopped the Vietnam war, purportedly with two pictures, Execution by Eddie Adams,... more
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With his new movie, Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen has once again succeeded in making people laugh — and think.
Best-known for the faux documentary Borat, in which he played a bumbling reporter from Kazakhstan, Cohen plays a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter in his new film Bruno.
The characters of both Bruno and Borat originated on Cohen's cable television show Da Ali G Show.
This interview was originally broadcast Jan. 4, 2007.With his new movie, Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen has once again succeeded in making people... more
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“Revenge” is a crushingly tension-filled, animated short film. It's part of a series of short films created as part of a 2-hour documentary about revenge, commissioned by the Netherlands’ national public broadcast company,VPRO television. As “Revenge” moves toward its grand climactic finale, the tension becomes overwhelming and crests with a magnificent ejaculation!
This piece includes a number of great photographic prints from the film, as well as the riveting animated short, “Revenge.”“Revenge” is a crushingly tension-filled, animated short film. It's... more
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Published on Friday, July 3, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See
by Jeff Biggers
As a groundbreaking clean energy counterpart to this summer's extraordinary Food, Inc. documentary on the agribusiness, the long-awaited "Coal Country" film on the cradle-to-grave process of generating our coal-fired electricity will be hitting the theatres next week with the big bang of an ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosive.
And Big Coal ain't happy.
After a year-long campaign of threats and intimidation, the Big Coal lobby plans to have its Friends of Coal sycophants out in force to picket the premiere of the film on July 11, 7pm, at La Belle Theater in the South Charleston Museum in Charleston, West Virginia.
Why is Big Coal so afeared of this documentary film by native Appalachian daughters Mari-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller, producer and director of three-part award-winning landmark PBS series, "The Appalachians"?
If anything, Coal Country goes out of its way to include the views and voices of the Big Coal lobby and its executives, engineers and miners. This, in fact, might be why Coal Country is so compelling; far from any hackneyed agenda, Coal Country simply allows the coal industry and those affected by its mountaintop removal operations and coal-fired plants to tell their personal stories. The end result is devastating. In a methodical and deliberate fashion, Coal Country brilliantly takes viewers on a rare journey through our nation's coal-fired electricity, from the extraction, processing, transport, and burning of coal.
Once you see the breathtaking footage by cameraman Jordan Freeman, and the unaffected and heart-rending portraits of coal mining families, you will never flick on your light switch again without thinking about Coal Country.
From the git-go, West Virginia governor and coal peddler Joe Manchin declares: "There is no replacement for coal. There might be 30 or 50 or 100 years from now, but there's not today."
A French engineer cheerfully proclaims, "Coal is a wonderful resource. It's too bad it's dirty."
As one coal company executive coldly states, the millions of pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives that rip through the Appalachian mountains and poison the watersheds and air of local communities daily, "might make some people uncomfortable."Published on Friday, July 3, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
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Gareth continues his Haiku-nominations:
Toronto. Metal.
Those were the days. Now we’re poor…
Wait! Nostalgia pays!Gareth continues his Haiku-nominations:
Toronto. Metal.
Those were the days. Now... more
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One of the best pictures of the year so far: The Cove.
Here's a short Cove Haiku Review:
Best Picture nominee #1
‘The Cove’
Dolphins are cute, right?
Not in Japan. They die there.
Not waving. Drowning.One of the best pictures of the year so far: The Cove.
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If Snag Films fulfills its promise, it will spawn millions of virtual movie theaters streaming documentaries. Independent documentary films are experiencing a creative boom, yet theatrical distribution channels have gone bust, Snag could solve the bottleneck in distribution for quality documentaries that has left many great films unable to reach their potential audience or to provide a viable financial return. It also offers established media companies with deep libraries a way of getting “long-tail” documentaries out of the vaults and before a worldwide, on-demand audience.
Snag brings the best nonfiction films to a global web audience, promotes viral web distribution through virtual movie theater widgets, and encourages users to engage with the films’ issues and supporter communities.
The new service features award-winning titles from some of the greatest names in documentary film production and distribution, including PBS, National Geographic, United Nations, Sundance Preserve, IndiePix, Peter Jennings Productions, Arts Alliance America, ITVS, Koch Lorber Films, and many others. Many of the most prominent documentary filmmakers are participating not only by having their films distributed via SnagFilms, but by engaging with their audience through blogs and offering special “bonus” material, as well as suggesting nonprofit organizations that viewers motivated by these films can link to and support via charitable contributions, volunteering or spreading the word.
“There has never been a time when so many high-quality socially relevant documentary films have been made, yet even though tens of thousands of documentaries are submitted to film festivals every year, only a handful find theatrical distribution. SnagFilms was created so that anyone who has a website, publishes a blog, or participates in a social network can open an online multiplex theater, giving others an opportunity to watch one or more of the films we’ll stream, to distribute these films by snagging them for their own sites, and to support the causes promoted by these films by linking to participating nonprofits. Through SnagFilms, everyone on the web can be a theater owner and a film distributor if they just donate their pixels and enable these incredible documentaries to be seen,” said SnagFilms founderTed Leonsis.
Each film is available in a widget that easily allows viewers, bloggers and others to take the film and accompanying material with them (hence the name “SnagFilms”) and place it on their own website, blog, or social network page.If Snag Films fulfills its promise, it will spawn millions of virtual movie theaters... more
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This video takes an authentic and exciting look at the monthly Downtown L.A. Art Walk. The Downtown L.A. Art Walk is a self-guided tour that showcases the numerous outstanding art exhibition venues and artists in Downtown Los Angeles.This video takes an authentic and exciting look at the monthly Downtown L.A. Art Walk.... more
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Description: America the most secure anti-terrorist nation in the world has been taken over by secret societies but How? The blueprints for the takeover of America are going to be exposed and this blueprint wouldn't have been possible without Alex Jones revealing many of their plans I decided to put together the blueprints on how they did it, on how they can overthrow our government and take over our country. They do it through secrecy and very well thought out blueprints or else they would have failed on the spot and so I try to reveal their step by step plan for United States control which is leading as well into the NWO. I will reveal 6 sections (was 5 but added another important part of their plan) of how they have taken over our country.
This used to be a screener but because of good reviews with a little constructive criticism which is fine I have decided to release this as now a public video. lease await on the filesharing networks for the it to be released there as well. It should be on ThePirateBay, Mininova, Vuze, Vertor, and others.
Warning: Please share this and spread this out to many sheeple or copy because it creates backups in case we get silenced by the govt. We won't condone commercial use or selling of this documentary, so if anybody decides to sell it you will be held responsible for not obeying fair use copyright laws, and I can't be held liable since I don't condone commercial selling of this documentary.
If you want to give me donations just to support me I will accept that or gifts but I won't make money, but I do need more money to upgrade my camera equipment and give USWGO a better host. So only donations are allowed but no commercial use of my documentary.
Now if you want to support my documentary and get me a better web host (a cheap paid host with less limitations) please support me by donating to my USWGO Moneybomb which is located at:
http://uswgo.hyipo.net/Moneybomb.html
If you support me then I will be happy! I don't really want to make money but I kinda have to because hosts keep causing problems with my sites because they want me to pay for premium, and so I need money so I can have a good and more efficient website.Description: America the most secure anti-terrorist nation in the world has been taken... more
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They don't give their names, but viewers can see their faces plainly and what these teens are saying is shocking parents.
"I ended up having sex with more than one person that night and then in the morning I was trying to get morning-after pills," one of the girls said. "I was, like, 14 at the time." http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/story?id=7693121&page=1They don't give their names, but viewers can see their faces plainly and what... more
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Not quite six months in, this has been a pretty strong year for releases. Seen some fantastic stuff, not all of which I’ve been able to cover on MMP. (If they come your way, be sure to check out SUMMER HOURS, a smart, subtly turned French film, and BIG MAN JAPAN, a delirious, kick-ass send-up of Japanese kaiju.)
But to date, none of the documentaries I’ve seen have quite blown me away like BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY. It’s a combination of factors, here — the idea of the video journalists who work for the Democratic Voice of Burma, under constant threat of torture and lifetime imprisonment; the prime focus of the film on the Saffron Revolution, an uprising of Buddhist monks that crystalized into large-scale protests and resulted in a shockingly brutal response from the military junta; and director Anders Ostergaard’s way of mixing documentary footage smuggled out of the country with reenactments of events that happened outside the country — that makes the film such a compelling revelation of the struggle to disseminate truth in the face of repression.
The film has the backing of HBO, and so should be showing up on the network at some point. It’s well worth keeping an eye out for. In the meantime, here’s my interview with Ostergaard and Democratic Voice of Burma’s deputy director, Khin Maung Win.Not quite six months in, this has been a pretty strong year for releases. Seen some... more
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I have to admit: I can get a little knee-jerk liberal at times. So when I saw that BROTHERS AT WAR was exec produced by Gary Sinise and came with high praise from Jon Voight — especially since my last exposure to the political Jon Voight was through his role as George Washington in the atrocious “conservative comedy” AN AMERICAN CAROL — I approached the Iraq documentary with my guard up.
I needn’t have worried. Director Jake Rademacher — an actor who had wanted to serve himself but because of poor eyesight had to defer while his brothers Isaac and Joe were dispatched to Iraq — is respectful to the troops but succeeds in embuing this examination of soldiers coping in the war zone and at home with a reassuring candor. That he was able to get unprecedented access — going out on surveillance missions, sitting in with snipers on the job, and at one point finding himself smack-dab in the middle of a fire fight — and that he brings to bear in shaping this story his love and concern for his brothers (Joe, in particular, who appears to struggle with his occasional returns to the civilian world), help make this a one of the more riveting glimpses into a soldier’s experience in the midst of a very difficult war.
I know, were I in the same situation, I’d be hanging out in the bunker with the DVD system and the Coke machine, so I was interested in getting behind Rademacher’s motivations. Here’s the interview.I have to admit: I can get a little knee-jerk liberal at times. So when I saw that... more
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"Outrage," a new documentary from filmmaker Kirby Dick, takes issue with the secret lives of closeted gay politicians -- especially conservative Republicans who outwardly oppose gay rights.
The film, which premiered last week at the Tribeca Film Festival, features tell-alls from men who say they've had relationships with various Republicans, including Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Bush strategist Ken Mehlman and former Senator Larry Craig.
According to Magnolia Pictures, "Outrage" is a "searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians with appalling gay rights voting records who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to."
In the documentary, Dick lambastes the mainstream media for not better investigating the politicians' "hypocrisy" and double lives. He told New York magazine that the film explores "the issues surrounding closeted politicians and their hypocrisy in voting anti-gay -- and how these people have harmed millions of Americans for many years."
"Outrage" premieres May 8 in five cities, including Washington, D.C."Outrage," a new documentary from filmmaker Kirby Dick, takes issue with the... more
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Let’s get the hoary ol’ cliche out of the way right off: sex sells. That’s a formula relied upon by anyone involved in the media — including podcast producers hoping to up their hit counts (and thus, permit me a moment to address the search engines directly: sex, sex, sexity, sex, sex, sex. And, in conclusion, boobies) — and it’s certainly something wholeheartedly embraced by the practitioners of burlesque. Thing is, as revealed by director Deirdre Timmons in her new documentary, A WINK AND A SMILE, contemporary burlesque has started throwing a little post-modern self-awareness into the stew, making performances both the rip-roarin’ celebrations of undulating flesh they always were, and more knowing send-ups of the self-same celebrations, calling into question notions of beauty, eros, and the proper deployment of brightly dyed feathers.
Fortunately, Timmons — who herself has spent some time strutting the stage — knows enough to balance her doc’s intellect with the stuff that gets the (fully clothed) butts into the seats: performances that range from the genuinely erotic to the raucously satirical (better brace yourself for Ernie von Schmaltz, a cross-dressing female performer who flaunts a prosthetic pot-belly and prodigious faux chest hair). Come for boobs, hang around for the brains — now that’s what I call a full-service documentary.
Click on the above link to hear my interview with Timmons.Let’s get the hoary ol’ cliche out of the way right off: sex sells.... more
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If you don’t have kids or live outside of New York, you hear about the nightmarish process that attends enrolling a child in the city’s better nursery schools, and greet the tales with something that borders between awe and disbelief. Well, doubt no longer — filmmakers Marc H. Simon and Matthew Makar have taken their lives in their hands (you try dealing with all those doting parents!) and delivered an incisive yet sympathetic look at a group of Manhattanites with understandably big plans for their kids, and the school administrators who have to deal with the fact that all New Yorkers have big plans for their kids.
Both directors were happy to talk about the project. Here’s the interview.If you don’t have kids or live outside of New York, you hear about the... more
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What do you know about the food that you eat? Do you know what a trans fat is? Are "natural flavors" actually natural? There are certain labeling laws that make ingredient information deceiving. If you eat food, you need to watch this movie!
www.inGREEDientsmovie.comWhat do you know about the food that you eat? Do you know what a trans fat is? Are... more
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