Protest march against Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Kyoto, Japan. May 2007
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SACRIFICIO
Directed by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh
Camera Mårten Nilsson and Lukas E
SACRIFICIO
Directed by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh
Camera Mårten Nilsson and Lukas Eisenhauer
Editing Johan Söderberg
Produced by Atmo for SVT Documentary
Participants: Ciro Bustos (revolutionary and artist), Felix I. Rodriguez (ex. CIA-agent), Gen. Gary Prado (Bolivian Army), Regis Debray (Philosopher), Pierre Kalfon (Historian), The Jimenez family (family of the deceased guerrilla fighter Camba), Humberto Vázquez Viaña (Writer, brother of El Loro), Jon Lee Anderson (Che biographer), Sgt. Mario Teran (Bolivian army - executed Che Guevara)
After a year of guerrilla warfare in Bolivia together with a small group of 52 comerades, Che was now dead.
His dream of uniting Latin America through armed revolution put to an end. The person who more than other has been doomed in the history books as guilty of Ches death is his former lieutenant, Ciro Bustos (above).
When captured he drew Ches portrait for the Bolivian army. Since then he has been living in silence. He now appears for the first time in a documentary film. His version of the events raises questions about how history is written.
Winner of:
First Prize at the 2001 International Documentary Filmfestival "It's all true", Sao Paulo, Brazil.
First Prize at the 2001 International Documentary Filmfestival of Oporto, Portugal.
Best Non-Latinamerican Documentary at 2001 Festival de Nuevo Cine, Havana, Cuba.
Best use of music and sound, Prague, 2002 "One World" Human Right Film Festival.
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This is the trailer of news film "GITMO - The New Rules Of War".
The film starts from
This is the trailer of news film "GITMO - The New Rules Of War".
The film starts from a pleasant visit to the prison camp of Guantanamo Bay and embarks for a journey to Washington, Stockholm, Bucharest then to Abu Ghraib in Iraq and slowly....a new scary world is revealing itself.
GITMO had its World premiere November 05 at IDFA, the International Documentary Filmfestival of Amsterdam where it was selected in competition for the prestigious Joris Ivens award.
GITMO is produced by Kristina Åberg, co-produced by Mikael Olsen from Danish Zentropa Entertainment, and also by Swedish Television, Finnish YLEIS. Supported by Swedish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute and by Nordic Film & TV fund.
GITMO - THE NEW RULES OF WAR is distributed worldwide by Toronto based Films Transit. Theatrical distribution in Sweden by Folkets Bio.
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Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of
Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth?
Erik Gandini's approach through Surplus is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective.
Shot in the US, India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years. Surplus is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg.
George W Bush's famous "shopping-speech" calling for a war against terrorism that deters the nation from the fear of consumption. Castro responding with hymns to the anti-consumerist, advertising-free island of Cuba. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer preaching that the computer will give us peace on earth "bringing people together" while Adbuster Kalle Lasn warns that advertising pollutes us mentally, that over-consumption is unsustainable and that we are running out of oil.
Surplus main man is John Zerzan, controversial philosopher whose call for PROPERTY DAMAGE has inspired many to take to the streets. "That is not violence. Sitting there doing dope and watching MTV . Then you go and get a job. Just schlep along. To me that is violence," says Zerzan. "We are terrorized into being consumers."
In November 2003 Surplus was awarded with the most prestigious prize a Documentary can get, The Silver Wolf at Amsterdam's IDFA, and has spread widely around the globe since then.
"... This film about consumerism totally consumed us. It used the language of music video, propaganda and commercial advertising as a response to the forces of globalisation. It fights fire with fire. The questions it raises are ultimately more important than any answers it might suggest. And we believe audiences can only profit from the debate that will ensue. For its originality, sense of humour, irony, forcefulness and visual virtuosity, the Silver Wolf Award goes to SURPLUS." The Jury of the International Documentary Filmfestival in Amsterdam, Nov.2003.
"...juxtaposes images and music with great rythm and technical perfection" Il Manifesto
"Surplus is an open declaration of war on terror" Adbusters Magazine
Surplus was recently awarded with two major international Environmental film awards, FICA in Brazil and ECOCINEMA in Greece "The Cora Coralina prize and trophy, for the greatest of all the productions presented goes to"Surplus",..... for the creative way in which it denounces the current standards of production and consumption, especially in rich countries, as extremely harmful to the environment and to interpersonal relations. The issue, which justified an inspired and surprising editing work, is absent in the media, badly explored in literature, and of fundamental importance for the understanding of the causes of the civilization dilemma that affects everyone in our days."
In October 2004 Surplus was awarded with two Special Mentions at Environmental Film Festival of Torino, the Jury statement is:
"Un film che, partendo dai concetti anticonsumistici di un personaggio-contro, sviluppa in maniera dinamica, sarcastica e modernamente aggressiva i pericoli immanenti di un modo di esistere che tutti ci riguarda."
surplus
Produced by Atmo for SVT 2003 with the support of Swedish Film Institute and Nordic Film and TV- Fond.
Directed and produced by Erik Gandini
Lenght 52 min. Shot on Super 16mm and DV-CAM
Languages English 80%, Spanish 10%, Swedish 10%
Photographers Carl Nilsson-Lukas Eisenhauer
Edited by Johan Söderberg
Music Mark O' Sullivan -The Mighty Quark/Gotan Project/Tosca/David Österberg/Johan Söderberg
Sound Dolby SR
Festival distribution Swedish Film Institute. Contact: Sara Yamashita Ruster at
saru@sfi.se
TV distribution ATMO Sales. Contact: Kristina Åberg at
kristina@atmo.se
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Here's an entirely fictional little video about what's going on in the Arctic. Sign the pe
Here's an entirely fictional little video about what's going on in the Arctic. Sign the petition to help out in real life...
http://www.greenpeace.org/handsoffthearctic
We got the idea for this video after Russia planted a flag deep under the ocean ice as part of their bid to control vast areas of the Arctic. As if this wasn't silly enough, some news programmes mistakenly included footage from the movie Titanic in their reports! (The submarine used by Russia had also been in the movie.)
But the story behind the story is real. Global warming is melting the Arctic at an alarming rate. This summer the Arctic ice cover was the smallest ever recorded. As a result, there really is a race on to grab up the oil, gas and other resources once protected by ice.
But the more oil and gas we burn, the faster the Arctic melts and the closer our planet comes to catastrophic climate change. More here...
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/world_park_arct ic270807
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