CINEMA BY DEMAND-99% The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
This year, the Transitions Film Festival introduces ‘Cinema by Demand’, where we throw it over to you, the audience, to decide which extra films you’d like to see on the big screen at Cinema Nova.
In the spirit of the festival's collaborative, innovative and people-powered ideals, 'cinema by demand' empowers festival patrons to play a central role in expanding the festival’s program.
Do you want to see the collaboratively produced portrait of the Occupy Movement at the 2014 Transitions Film Festival?
To support this screening:
1) read the synopsis
2) view the above trailer and
3) pledge to pre-order a ticket (level of support).
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If it reaches its tipping point this film will be screened at 1:00pm on Saturday 22nd
at Cinema Nova.
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FILM SYNOPSIS
This collaborative film goes behind the scenes of the movement, definitively revealing what happened, and why. Supporters, participants, experts and critics shed light on why and how this movement took off with such explosive
force, and ask what the next phase might encompass.
In September 2011, The Occupy Wall Street movement propelled issues of economic inequality into the spotlight. 99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film goes behind the scenes of the movement, definitively
revealing what happened, and why. Personal stories imbue analysis of big picture issues with the real-world struggles of those compelled to take action, speak up, march, and risk arrest and brutality at the hands of oppressive police forces around the country.
Supporters, participants, experts and critics shed light on why and how this movement took off with such explosive force, and ask what the next phase might encompass.
The film situates Occupy within the recent emergence of decentralized resistance movements that are challenging the top-down structures of corporate and governmental hierarchy. From the formation of new communities, to protestors and police battling in what
many describe as the criminalisation of protest, the film reveals a web of power and privilege that consolidates political power and wealth in the hands of a few elite players, while shining a light on the unrest this has caused amongst a diverse cross-section
of people who call themselves the 99%.
Made in a unique and unprecedented collaboration of almost 100 filmmakers across the country, the production process of this feature film offers a uniquely diverse way of bringing context to the movement that has swept up America, and much of the world, with
its story. http://www.99percentfilm.com
Running time: 97
Country: USA
Year: 2013
Director: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic
Producers: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites
If it reaches its tipping point this film will be screened at 1:00 on Saturday 22nd at Cinema
Nova.
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