[Imc-g8-2005] Fwd: US Deep Dish and Indymedia filmmakers need help with UK tour for G8

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Hiya,

see this on help needed for deepdishtv g8 uk tour
i dropped the a mail re imc g8 stuff and giving g8 wiki infos etc
if anyone can help with trying to get dates at universities or other places 
that's cool - or any other ideas?

(also sent this mail to uk video and network lists)

cheers,
dave

>From: alextrocchi at riseup.net
>To: resistg82005 at lists.riseup.net
>Subject: [resistg82005] US Deep Dish and Indymedia filmmakers need help 
>with UK tour for G8
>
>  I know both these filmmakers and they're great activists, radicals, and
>indymedia people. They want to do a UK or even European tour and help out
>with Indymedia at the G8. They would like to speak at both Universities
>(for a speaking fee of some sort) and they also would like to do activist
>events. They currently can't afford the plane ticket from the US to the
>UK, so they would like groups and Unis to confirm dates and some coverage
>of travel costs with them so they can book the tour and be assured they
>can come.
>
>They can come as early as June 12th and stay to any time afterwards.
>To get in touch with them e-mail Brandon at mediablitz at riseup.net and Ali
>at ali at riseup.net. Description of tour beneath. Forward to relevant
>parties please!
>
>                 -alex
>
>US FILMMAKERS AGAINST WAR AND EMPIRE
>www.deepdishtv.org
>
>Deep Dish Television announces a plan for a European tour of their
>recently completed award-winning series Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots
>Response to War and Occupation, along with films from independent
>filmmakers and video activists from throughout the US.  The tour will
>feature independent journalist/biologist Ali Tonak (Indybay/Counterpunch,
>San Francisco, CA) and award-winning filmmaker Brandon Jourdan (Deep Dish
>TV/NYC Indymedia/Not An Alternative, New York, NY).  The tour will feature
>film screenings, guerilla filmmaking workshops, and open discussion.
>
>Deep Dish TV was founded in 1986 in New York, NY, becoming the first
>national satellite network to reach public access channels. It aims to
>produce thought-provoking programming that educates viewers by showing
>them a perspective rarely seen on mainstream news.
>
>The aim of the tour is to show the scope of American dissent from their
>government's war on the world and expose the myth of consensus within US
>politics.   It is also an opportunity for audiences to see
>thought-provoking political documentaries, have opportunities to learn new
>filmmaking/activist skills, and to engage in discussion with independent
>filmmakers/media activists from the East and West Coasts of the United
>States.
>
>Featured Films
>
>The Real Face of Occupation (Deep Dish TV, 2004)
>The Real Face of Occupation, which includes never- before seen footage of
>the war in Iraq shot by videographers David Martinez and Urban Hamid.
>Their work can also be seen in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
>Martinez's footage from Fallujah is being used to as key testimony in the
>World Tribunal on War Crimes in Iraq which will take place in Istanbul
>this coming June.  The Real Face of Occupation was co-coordinated by
>producers Jacquie Soohen and Brandon Jourdan for Deep Dish TV.
>
>It is one of thirteen programs in the Shocking and Awful series that
>comprises the work of over 100 independent video activists from around the
>world.  Several hundred-community cable channels around the United States
>have carried the shows, as well as Free Speech TV on the Dish Network.
>The Real Face of Occupation was also featured in the Museum of Modern Art
>in February of 2005.
>
>Mandate (Mad Love Collective, 2005)
>Mandate?', a half-hour documentary by the Mad Love Collective, members of
>Indymedia Video and the Glass Bead Collective, shows resistance at the
>January 20th inauguration of George W. Bush. The film shows the issues
>behind the re-election of Bush and the reaction from protestors to the
>most expensive inauguration in US history.
>
>Fallujah (Deep Dish, expected to be finished by Fall 2005)
>There will be a screening of footage from Fallujah, a new film from Deep
>Dish producer's Brandon Jourdan and Brian Drolet.  The footage includes
>rare, never-before seen footage from the US military offensive in November
>and December 2004.
>
>The Miami Model (FTAA IMC, 2004)
>
>In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami,
>Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA
>threatens to devastate workers, the environment, and public services like
>health care, education, and water, and to destroy indigenous rights and
>cultural diversity across North, Central, and South America.
>
>Thousands of union members, environmentalists, feminists, anarchists,
>students, farm workers, media activists, and human rights activists who
>gathered in Miami to struggle against the FTAA were brutally attacked with
>rubber bullets, pepper spray, electric guns and shock batons, embedded
>reporters and information warfare, all coordinated by the new United
>States Department of Homeland Security.
>
>The Filmmakers
>
>About Brandon Jourdan: Brandon is an award-winning independent filmmaker,
>journalist, and writer. He works with the Not An Alternative arts
>collective in New York, NY (http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org).  He was
>a coordinating producer and editor on Deep Dish's award-winning Shocking
>and Awful series, which played at the Museum of Modern Art in January of
>2005.  He is a founder of the North Carolina Independent Media Center and
>has worked over the last year with the NYC Indymedia Video Team on a
>half-hour weekly television show entitled Blacked-Out Media. He has
>contributed to Democracy Now!, Now with Bill Moyers, Free Speech
>Television, the INN World Report, and to Amnesty International video
>projects.  He was a media coordinator with the International Solidarity
>Movement in Palestine during June and July of 2002.
>
>While in North Carolina, he worked with Academy-Award winning director
>Barbara Trent on two Empowerment Project documentaries. He has spoken at
>various universities about the role of independent media and has been a
>guest on NPR Talk of the Nation.
>
>His films include: No Attack on Iraq, Eric Drooker, The Miami Model,
>Mandate?, and The Real Face of Occupation
>
>About Ali Tonak:  Ali began participating in Indymedia by coordinating
>photography at the DC Independent Media Center during demonstrations
>against the IMF and World Bank at their annual meetings in April 2000 and
>continued volunteering at various mobilizations thereafter. A couple of
>the video projects that he worked on are Km. 0, WTO/Mexico/Cancun and The
>Miami Model (www.ftaaimc.org/miamimodel), a documentary that studies the
>effects of global capitalism both on the local and global level and
>carries some of the most shocking images of police violence on
>demonstrations in the US.  He has also traveled to Iraq to observe the
>effects of the UN imposed sanctions and to Zapatista territory in Chiapas
>as an independent journalist (zapatista.bard.edu). His writing has
>appeared in Counterpunch, AlterNet and a variety of Turkish publications.
>
>Currently he is working with Ignacio Chapela from UC Berkeley in
>developing novel ways for detecting transgenic contamination from
>genetically modified crops.
>
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