[IMC-bristol] ideal World

[Kyra]

following the email to this list from Simon Gilchrist (copied at end of this 
email), am fwd.ing the below message thats circulating on another list...

Re: -----Original Message-----
From: lina jamoul <l_jamoul@hotmail.com>
To: direct_action_against_the_war_now@yahoogroups.com
<direct_action_against_the_war_now@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 17 January 2003 12:27
Subject: D.A.A.W.N! Fwd: Simon Gilchrist

>>From: "Sahibzada, Mortaza" <m.sahibzada@imperial.ac.uk>
>>To: msahib <m.sahibzada@imperial.ac.uk>
>>Subject: Simon Gilchrist
>>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:39:47 -0000
>>
>>ISMers should be warned about Simon Gilchrist who is aiming to make a film
>>about peace activists. He is trying to latch onto human shield activists
>>about to travel to Iraq and people who go to Palestine. He was supposed to
>>go to Palestine in July with Leila Sansour and Jeremy Hardy, as a camera
>>operator on the documentary they are making about the ISM. Instead of
>>going, he was inspired to approach Channel 4 with the production company 
>>Ideal World to make his own documentary about acitivists. It might not 
matter whether people in TV steal other people's ideas, if they produce good
>>programmes. But it seems that the aim is to make a film that trivialises
>>activists. Until recently, the working title was "Gap Year Gone Wrong". C4
>>wants a film that questions why "young people suddenly up and go and fight
>>a war for someone else's freedom" with particular emphasis on what they are
>>putting their families through at home. Gilchrist is looking for people as
>>young as possible. If you or anyone you know are approached by him, it
>>would be best to have as little as possible to do with him.
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