Independent World Television has launched the beta version of its flagship news project: The Real News Network. Real News is the people’s answer to CNN and Fox News – an independently funded international news network being distributed over the internet. Real News does not accept funding from corporations, governments, or unions -- funding is in the form of $10 a month subscriptions from individuals and grants.
Real News has attracted some interesting supporters – Gore Vidal, Laura Flanders, David Suzuki, Joanne St Lewis, Robery McChesney, among others. Their goal is to provide daily international news coverage unbiased by financial reliance on advertising. Their daily news coverage is planned to begin this Fall, and the network’s official launch is scheduled to coincide with the U.S. presidential elections in 2008.
Real news is also hiring and looking for volunteer researchers and citizen journalists – check out their website for details.
Posted by Michael Lithgow on August 9, 2007 in
The theatre seats about 700, and the screen is a massive 17’ x 36’ extravagance of colour and light. It is the kind of exhibition space for which most independent doc makers would give an eyetooth.
On one memorable night in Montreal, the images were of horribly injured Haitians. It was the world premiere of Haiti: The Untold Story (2005, Kevin Pena, dir.), an accusation and indictment of peacekeeping practices in Haiti. Pena had arrived that day in Canada with his documentary, only just edited, secure and hidden on the hard drive of his laptop. He had never seen it on a large screen, let alone shown it to anyone outside of Haiti. In the audience, in response to the difficult images, members of the Montreal Haitian community began wailing high-pitched vibrato screams.
The impact of the film combined with the voluble outrage of those most intimately affected created an intense experience for everyone in the audience. It demonstrated the extraordinary power of political cinema – and explained, in part, why a grassroots screening series in Montreal is growing into an international distribution and exhibition phenomenon...
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Posted by Michael Lithgow on May 12, 2007 in
The NYC Grassroots Independent Media Coalition is having its 4th annual conference: Media and Movements Beyond Borders. Workshops include podcasting, young women’s hip-hop activism in Brazil, performance as creative resistance, the Prometheus Radio Project, videoblogging, grassroots media and the voice of immigrants, the Artist Freedom Campaign - to name only a few.
Also includes an art exhibition and film screenings on topical themes such as police brutality, queer identity and hip-hop. Friday, February 23-24, 2007 at the New School University, Wollman Hall, 66 W. 12th, 5th Floor. For more info call: (917) 279-4344. Register on-line: If you'd like to apply for a scholarship, for more info or to see if you qualify, contact: info@nycgrassrootsmedia.org
Posted by Michael Lithgow on February 21, 2007 in
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