US FILMMAKERS AGAINST WAR AND EMPIRE
MOCAKAUK - 11.07.2005 12:27
VRANKRIJK - 15/7: 21h00; OT301 - 19/7 and 26/7: 20h00
Deep Dish Television announces an 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.
US FILMMAKERS AGAINST WAR AND EMPIRE
www.deepdishtv.org
Deep Dish Television announces an 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 governments 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 Moores Fahrenheit 9/11.
Martinezs footage from Fallujah is being used to as key testimony
in the World Tribunal on War Crimes in Iraq which had taken place
in Istanbul, this June. The Real Face of Occupation was co-
coordinated by producers Jacquie Soohen and Brandon Jourdan for
Deep Dish TV.
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 producers 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.
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, 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.
Location: Vrankrijk
Address: Spuistraat 216 - Amsterdam
Friday 15th of July at 21:00
More info:  david@idfa.nl
 E-Mail: mocakauk@planet.nl
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