Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Must Watch - Food,Inc

posted by Djouls at 7:31 AM
Must Watch on Sprword.com show many documentaries telling about parts of reality that global medias do not usually question or talk about and that stay unanswered by governments.

One of them is Food, Inc. by filmmaker Robert Kenner. "He lifts the veil on The USA's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.
We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli’Äîthe harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Food, Inc.
reveals surprising’Äîand often shocking truths’Äîabout what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here."

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Friday, August 21, 2009

The Yes Men need your help!

posted by Mica at 4:23 PM
It may be economically tough times but The Yes Men are hiring!

Flavorwire reports that these ever-pranking, culture-jamming, do-gooders have put out an open call for help on a new project. Perhaps they are gearing up for the US theatrical release of their new movie The Yes Men Fix The World.



Here's the scoop:
Help the Yes Men! The Yes Men need your help! If you live in New York, legendary cultural jammers the Yes Men and friends need you now to pull off some large-scale shenanigans in September. It’Äôll be fun and stupid, and it’Äôll create a splash in the media. Your work COULD get seen by millions! To volunteer, please contact larken@artevolve.org. Here’Äôs what they need: * People who can sew or build things. * People who know how to shoot and edit video and have their own equipment. * People who enjoy wearing deeply ridiculous costumes in potentially perilous situations. The work will go on for four weeks starting now. You can volunteer for any length of time that you like. The location will be: 342 Maujer, Bushwick (L train to Grand Street) www.houseofyes.org

all I can say to this is... um...YES!

post script: I noticed that all of my friends fall neatly into the 3 categories listed in this - coincidence? I think not.

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

posted by Noah at 8:00 AM
I just saw this documentary about the only heavy metal band in Iraq and was surprised to discover how moving it really was. It gives a glimpse into the reality of day-to-day life in post 9/11 Iraq that definitely needs to be seen by more people in the US...

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Blue Gold

posted by Noah at 10:15 AM
Flow is a new documentary which tells the story of the increasing privatization of water AKA "blue gold" and the frightening future it is creating. It's in selected US theaters now, find out more HERE.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Michael Moore's new film is FREE

posted by Noah at 9:55 AM
Michael Moore is releasing his next movie "Slacker Uprising" as a free download starting on September 23rd. The film, is based on his 2004 get out the vote college campus tour. Sign up to download online HERE.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Everything's Cool

posted by Noah at 11:40 AM
Everything's Cool is a documentary about responding to the global warming naysayers...

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Monday, December 31, 2007

Body of War

posted by Noah at 11:46 AM
Body of War is a new documentary about what happens to a soldier who returns home paralyzed after fighting in Iraq...




Thanks Melinda!

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Friday, December 28, 2007

Good Copy Bad Copy

posted by Noah at 11:04 AM
Good Copy Bad Copy is an excellent new documentary from Denmark that reviews the current state of copyright law and its relationship to creative culture, using a range of international interviews. Watch the entire hour long film below (also worth checking out is the work in progress Copyright Criminals)...



Thanks Kit!

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Monday, December 17, 2007

10 Miles Per Hour

posted by Noah at 10:32 PM
Trailer for the documentary 10 MPH about riding a Segway scooter across America. The filmmakers are letting folks download the entire 92 minute film for free...

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Monday, November 19, 2007

What Would Jesus Buy?

posted by Noah at 10:14 AM
Just in time for the holidays, What Would Jesus Buy is a documentary about Reverand Billy's radical anti-consumerism campaign from Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame...


via Word Soup

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e-waste documentary

posted by Noah at 9:47 AM

eDump is a documentary by Michael Zhao about the problem with electronic waste. It follows America's 2.6 million tons of annual e-waste as it travels to foreign countries for recycling and the pollution and health problems it causes along the way. This powerful short film can be watched in its entirety on Zhao's site HERE. Find out more about e-waste HERE.






Thanks Anne!

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

King Corn Trailer

posted by Noah at 6:26 PM
King Corn looks like it will be an excellent companion to the book Omnivore's Dilemma. Watch the trailer here...



Thanks Chris!

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Media That Matters 7

posted by Noah at 9:29 AM

The winners of the seventh annual Media That Matters Film Festival are now online. The sixteen featured documentaries are 8 minutes or shroter and range in subject matter from garbage recyclers in Egypt to 5th graders in the Bronx who try veganism. Watch them all here.

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Monday, July 09, 2007

Sicko Memo

posted by Noah at 6:45 PM
Michael Moore recently posted a leaked memo from the Vice President of Corporate Communications of Capital Blue Cross in response to a viewing of his new film Sicko. Say what you want about Moore, his films clearly have an impact. Here's an excerpt:
You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore's movie, he is an effective storyteller.
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Moore's movies are intentionally intense and his objective in Sicko seems to be to revive the earlier Clinton efforts - not to achieve universal coverage with this movie, but to push the topic to the top of the agenda. He will be just as successful whether proponents mount momentum or discussion entails key stakeholders defending why it won't work.
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Ignoring its impact might be a successful strategy only if it flops, but that has not been the history of Moore's films nor the way this one appears to be headed. If popular, the movie will have a negative impact on our image in this community.

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I believe the most successful strategy will not be in attacking the movie for its weaknesses or misperceptions, but in distancing ourselves and our brand from the groups and motivations he attacks...
Read the whole thing here.

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Tsunami Orphan Music Video?

posted by Noah at 6:33 PM
Actually these are the credits for a new documentary AmmA, about orphans in Sri Lanka, which is in its final stages. To find out more at Simba Share.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Czech Dream

posted by Noah at 7:21 AM

What happens when you trick a city into thinking you're building the first big box store in the region? Apparently you get that the crap beat out of you. At least that's what happens to the people behind the documentary Czech Dream (which is now playing in select US cities). Color me intrigued to find out the whole story...



via Stay Free

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Making Waves

posted by Noah at 6:48 AM
A new BBC documentary about Hawaii and the environment, called Message in the Waves, caused a city in England to ban plastic bags after resident and filmmaker Rebecca Hosking set up a screening. From a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor, which follows the continued downfall of the cheap disposable plastic bag used by grocery stores (500 billion of which are used annually worldwide):

Dumbstruck by what she'd seen off the Hawaiian coast during her year-long filmmaking trip, Hosking set up a local screening of her film and invited the town's 43 shopkeepers to come see where plastic bags end up.

All but seven of them showed up. At the end of the viewing, held in a local hall, Hosking called for a show of hands in support of a voluntary ban on plastic bags. Every single hand went up. The rest of the town's shopkeepers quickly followed suit. On May 1, Modbury won bragging rights as the first plastic-bag-free town in Europe.

Read the entire article here.

Watch the trailer clips from the Message in the Waves here.

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Crispin Glover on Corporations

posted by Noah at 10:46 PM
While David Lynch's comment about product placement was amusing it's also nice to hear a more nuanced discussion of the problem with corporate movie making from Crispin Glover on VBS.TV.

Thanks Mica!

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Monday, April 09, 2007

David Lynch on Product Placement [NSFW]

posted by Noah at 9:24 AM
A lovely succinct response by master filmmaker David Lynch on the practice of Product Placement (definitely not work or kid safe)...




via Stay Free! > via WOW

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