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 Topic: Screamers MovieThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
Rattling the Cage: An Interview with Carla Garapedian
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| Posted by ZAk on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 03:11 AM |
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her work as a journalist, former BBC World News anchor, and especially her films, the Emmy award-winning director Carla Garapedian knows how to
shine a white hot light on issues that might otherwise go unnoticed by the world. Utilizing the music of Grammy award-winning rock quartet System of a
Down and exploring the main thesis from Harvard professor Samantha Power’s Pulitzer prize winning book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of
Genocide, Garapedian’s latest documentary Screamers is a film that explores the reasons why genocide continues to happen and why the US government continues to
remain neutral.
Garapedian was the movie’s first convert. During our talk via
phone from Los Angeles where the film debuted, Carla explained that her
perception of the younger generation—the film’s main audience—was changed from
cynical to hopeful, with even tough government critics responding well to her
film. |
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This festival will leave you completely sober
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| Posted by Zildjian on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 11:08 PM |
on Human Rights Film Festival
BILL BROWNSTEIN, The Gazette
Published: Friday, March 23, 2007
The Montreal Human Rights Film Festival is unlike any other in the city - which is really saying something in light of the plethora of film fests in this city.
Beginning tonight and running until Thursday at the Cinema du Parc, the second edition of this festival, like the first, is almost entirely devoid of glitz and glamour. That's because there's nothing remotely sexy about the fest's 115 films, which touch on everything from homelessness and hunger to children's rights and health care, from racism and intolerance to war and genocide. Essentially, this festival's focus is on jolting and sensitizing viewers to some of the inequities of life on Earth. |
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Screamers DVD slated for June 2007 release
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| Posted by sugar_buzz on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 09:34 AM |
 Screamers DVD is slated for release on June 26, 2007 according to a listing on <a href=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NVIGMA?tag=s062-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B000NVIGMA&adid=1WAC00TGQM792F6H57YC&>amazon.com
It has been confirmed that the film is, indeed, from the studio listed in the amazon.com listing: <a href=http://www.firstlookstudios.com/catalogFLHE.aspx?projectid=ac5c8407-fdb0-47bc-8937-c8021c2ef33e&index=218>First Look Studios
However, the news has yet to be confirmed by the film's official site.
Credits for 'Serart_Fan' posting in the SOAD Discussion forum and 'SOADGolfeR21' for the First Look Studios link.
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Larry King Calls Screamers 'Brilliant. A Film Everyone Should See'
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| Posted by sugar_buzz on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:55 PM |
Larry King Calls Screamers 'Brilliant. A Film Everyone Should See'
LOS ANGELES--Larry King has declared the film "Screamers"--now playing in select cities nationwide in the US--a must-see. "It's a brilliant film," said King. "Everyone should see it." The film features the Grammy award-winning band System of a Down and exposes the denial of genocide in the last century, from the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda -- right up to the genocide unfolding now in Darfur. |
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Documentarian bands with rockers to target genocide
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| Posted by Zildjian on Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 06:01 PM |
Carla Garapedian recognizes the irony of her initial reaction to the
music of System of a Down"To me it just sounded like they were screaming," she says of the multiplatinum band's heavy-duty rock But the former BBC anchor and documentary filmmaker is a fan of raised voices. Her new film "Screamers," which opens Friday, is about just that, people speaking up. Having tackled tough issues in award-winning films such as "Beneath the Veil," which profiled women in Afghanistan, and "Iran Undercover," about that country's student movement, Garapedian found common ground with the politically outspoken members of
System of a Down. |
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