“THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE”
DIRECTED BY JILL FRIEDBERG & RICK ROWLEY / US / 2000 / 72 ‘
PRODUCED BY BIG NOISE FILMS AND CORRUGATED FILMS
Synopsis 01: This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO’s power to arbitrally overrule nations’ environmental, social and labour policies in favour of unbridled corporate greed, protestors from all around came out in force to make their views known and stop the summit. Against them is a brutal police force and a hostile media as well as the stain of a minority of destructively overzealous comrades. Against all odds, the protesters bravely faced fierce opposition to take back the rightful democratic power that the political and corporate elite of the world is determined to deny the little people. – Written by Kenneth Chisholm
Synopsis 02: A gripping document of what really happened on Seattle’s streets. The film cuts through the confusion and tear gas to paint an intimate, passionate portrait of a week that changed the world. With narration by Susan Sarandon and Spearhead’s Michael Franti, and with a driving soundtrack including Rage Against the Machine and DJ Shadow, This Is What Democracy Looks Like is the first documentary to capture the raw energy of the WTO protests, while clarifying their global and historic significance. The Independent Media Center provided a production infrastructure for over 450 media activists during the WTO protests in November 1999. With autonomous, volunteer-run media centers operating in four continents, ten countries and twenty-one cities, the IMC represents a new and powerful emerging model for independent media.
“The IMC isn’t waiting for the old guard media to tell the true story… the IMC is simply doing the job itself, reporting directly form the front lines.“
Naomi Klein, author of NO LOGO
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Publicado em: 13/05/14
De autoria: casadevidro247
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