[CIMC-work] festival announcement - proposal for razor wire / feature

[Thomas Yun]

Hello, collective,

attached below is a proposed article for the festival
announcement.  At the last meeting I was at (don't
know if you guys met last week) it was proposed to
have a festival announcement on the razor wire, which
I think means that it would be at the top of the
center column for a few weeks.  There would also be a
link to a webpage on the television show (not yet
produced).

The announcement needs a few more details, start and
stop times, and nail down a few more sponsors and
videos to be screened.

paz,
t
y

-----------------ATTACHMENT BELOW:----------------

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RE: 	
	1. "News from the Underground": A Festival of
Autonomous Media
	Benefit for Chicago Indymedia and Hasta Cuando
	Sponsored by Ritual Multimedia, Chicago Media Action,
Labor Beat / Labor Express, Nicaragua Solidarity
Committee, Polvo Arte, and Producciones en el ojo.

	2. Chicago Indymedia to premiere television show at
"News from the Underground".


"News from the Underground", a festival of autonomous
media, will celebrate all the news and views that
corporate interests marginalize.  The festival
features a collaboration of independent and grassroots
media organizations coming together for the purpose of
promoting independent, non-corporate, grassroots
journalism and arts.  The festival will feature the
premiere episode of Chicago Independent Television,
produced by the Chicago Indymedia video collective,
whose mission is to provide your corporate news
alternative.   





FESTIVAL DATES:
January 16th and 17th

LOCATIONS:
Women in the Director's Chair on January 16th, 941 W.
Lawrence
Decima Musa on January 17th, 1901 S. Loomis




SCHEDULE:

January 16th 
video screenings: 	"Independent Media in a Time of
War"*
			"Live from Ground Zero" (WTO Cancun)*
			Producciones en el ojo
			Chicago Independent Television, Episode 1

Additional events:
			Photoexhibit from the Chicago Indymedia photogroup.
			Report back from FTAA protests (videos and
speakers).
			Musical guest CHUY NEGRETTE.

January 17th
video screenings:	"Pollution at H. Kramer"
			"Pilsen Artist"
			Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness"*
			"Tell Us"
		
Additional events:
			Report back from FTAA protests (videos and
speakers).
			Musical guest TBA.



CONTACT INFO:
Chicago Independent Media Center - Thomas Yun, (312)
505-0764, mayday at riseup.net
Hasta Cuando - Tracy Kurowski (312) 282-6787,
tracykurowski at postmark.net
www.chicago.indymedia.org (festival page coming soon)


*DETAILS FOR SELECTED MOVIES:
INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR
35 minutes, Produced by Branda Miller & Hudson Mohawk
Indy Media

In this important, powerful, and timely lecture, Amy
Goodman--independent journalist and host of the
popular radio show Democracy Now!--speaks about the
corporate media's coverage of the 2003 Iraq War. She
discusses the way that the U.S. media downplayed
civilian casualities and glorified military combat,
and she asks her audience to consider the costs of
coverage that is both sanitized and sensationalized.
At the core of her lecture is a deep commitment to the
ethics of journalism--she believes that the role of
reporters is to ferret out the facts, to question
those in power, and to "go to where the silence is,
and say something." Goodman uses the concrete example
of the Iraq war to ask her audience to grapple with a
larger question--what impact does the
commercialization and consolidation of the media
industry have on journalism and democracy?



LIVE FROM GROUND ZERO
14 minutes, produced by Indymedia Cancun

Indymedia coverage of the WTO protests which occurred
in Cancun, Mexico in September.  Eye-popping footage
of anti-globalization Latin American style.  Features
interviews with indigenous peoples explaining exactly
how the WTO and globalization are directly harming
them.  Features a memorial to Lee, the South Korean
farmer who killed himself as an act of protest.



LESSONS OF DARKNESS
(Lektionen in Finsternis)
Directed by Werner Herzog
Germany 1992, 35mm, color, 52 min.
German with English subtitles

Shortly after the Gulf War, filmmaker Werner Herzog
teamed up with cameraman and coproducer Paul Berriff
to document the postwar devastation inside Kuwait. The
result is a Dantean view of apocalyptic spectacle:
lakes and deltas of thick black oil; burning wells
sending towers of flame skyward and superheating
everything around  them. The film is organized into
thirteen "chapters," narrated by Herzog in an
appropriately hushed and awestruck voice and set to
music  by Mahler, Wagner, and Verdi. Lessons of
Darkness was chosen as the best film of 1995 by J.
Hoberman of The Village Voice, who proclaimed that the
film "could have been made to illustrate the Book of Revelations."

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grassroots media festival = http://www.uic.edu/~tyun/grassroots

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