Other award-winning films:
Early Warnings
The anti-nuclear campaign achieves Critical Mass: 20,000 people at Seabrook, June 24, 1978
Seabrook, New Hampshire has long been an international focal point in the struggle over atomic power. In the summer of 1978, nine months before the accident at Three Mile Island, more than 20,000 opponents of the Seabrook plant were addressed by a broad range of the leading figures in the anti-nuclear campaign. The film of this seminal rally offers a succinct and powerful summary of many of the most important statements of that movement, including speeches by Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Barry Commoner, Dick Gregory, Sarah Nelson, Dianne Garand, Dr. John Gofman, Amory Lovins and singers Jackson Browne, John Hall and Pete Seeger. The film also takes us to the steps of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, where the first demonstration there prompted some contrasting views from members of the board that regulates the nation's most controversial industry.
Early Warnings describes the electric events at Seabrook and presents a tight outline of the anti-nuclear case, as well as providing a look into one of the movement's most inspiring moments-its biggest and best-publicized rally before Three Mile Island.
Some of the people who provided their talent and energy at the Seabrook Rally. From top down: Pete Seeger, folksinger, leading the crowd in song; Dick Gregory, comedian and social activist, talking about racism and atomic power; Sarah Nelson from N.O.W. expaining the Silkwood murder mystery; Jackson Browne and John Hall, rock musicians, decrying nuclear power between sets.
ECOCIDE: A Strategy of War
"A compelling story of vital importance that is very moving, despite the cool scientific approach. Provocative, low-key, accurate, and important."---Educational Film Library Association
"...an excellent documentary and is suitable for a wide audience."---Science Books & Films
"...richly thought-provoking documentary, which will be a distinctive selection for both classroom and public library use."---Booklist
The war on the environment in Vietnam
This film vividly reports on the results of unprecedented tactics during the Vietnam War. Herbicides, with innocuous names like Agent Orange and White were used to defoliate forest and jungle. Bombing devastated forests and fields, leaving over 20 million craters in South Viet Nam alone. Rome plows cleared an area the size of Rhode Island by the end of the war. Ecocide forcefully brings home the threat which a war strategy aimed at the ecology poses-both to the direct victims and the rest of humanity.
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Red Ribbon, American Film Festival
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Mannheim Film Festival
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Leipzig Film Festival
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Sydney & Melbourne Film Festivals
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Moscow Film Festival
VIETNAM EXPERIENCE
A Long Form Music Video Featuring the Songs of Country Joe McDonald
"...And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?" The sights and sounds of Vietnam still carry an unforgettable impact on our collective memories. This moving film brings us closer to the reality of Viet Nam by combining the emotional lyrics and music of Country Joe McDonald with compelling archival footage of the war.
VIETNAM EXPERIENCE captures the vivid horror of the war. Whether veteran, war protester, student, man or woman, no one will view this film untouched. Much more than a thirty minute music video, it is a heartfelt journey into the war that won't go away.
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"...a gripping mix of wartime and post-war film footage, without commentary, except for anti-war songs by Country Joe McDonald...more harrowing and more eloquent than all the Hollywood movies on that subject."---San Francisco Chronicle
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"This extended music video promises 'a haunting musical journey into the war that won't go away.' It delivers. McDonald is still anti-war, but now he's pro-warrior. And they're all here-the wounded, the bitter, the proud, along with the nurses who tended them and the officials they feel misled them. Against the stream of footage shot in Viet Nam and back home, McDonald's newer songs are binoculars on the war. This brief film honors the soldiers by taking a microscopic look at their world."---Video Digest
ABE AJAY: Dimension x 3
A Portrait of an Artist at Work
This film provides an intimate visit with the articulate and meticulous artist, Abe Ajay, in his Connecticut studio. Ajay explores the importance of his family and youth, recounts his student days in New York, and examines the role of the Federal Arts Project in American art. Manipulating arrangements, testing relationships, he discusses the importance of his craft as well as philosophy.
"He may easily be a master engineer, architect, carpenter and poet, all rolled into one..."---Arts Magazine
An Academy for Educational Development Film
A Green Mountain Post Production Executive Producer: Lee Hall.
Producers: Daniel Keller & Charles Light. Director: Daniel Keller.
THE GULF BOWL CABARET
A half-hour satire on the Persian Gulf War, the News Media, the New Age, and the New World Order. Using the anchor desk at Censored Network News as home base, the show includes backdrop footage of the war and its aftermath, musical interludes, reports from "live" correspondents, such as Reiner Wolfgang von Schwanzer, bizarre and biting commentary, interruptions by "regularly scheduled programming", and commercial parodies.
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THE GULF BOWL CABARET is a tour-de-force that acts as an absurdist antidote to the Gulf War's fuzzy, feel-good aftermath. It is an entertainment, not a teach-in--a savagely funny, deeply angry lampoon and lament. A laugh crying out in the wilderness of a popular war.
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Produced by GMP Films in association with Blue Angel Arts.
Cannabis Rising
Tour the Highlands of Holland with Ed Rosenthal
In Amsterdam's famed hash coffeeshops, you can order coffee, tea, or...marijuana! Are the Dutch too permissive, or have they found a peaceful, practical alternative to the war on drugs?
CANNABIS RISING is an insider's look at the rapidly growing, quasi-legal cannabis industry in the Netherlands and the issues swirling around it.
Backed by a dynamic musical sound track, we follow Ed Rosenthal, a modern Johnny Appleseed of pot, as he takes the High Road to Holland, where you can buy marijuana in over one thousand hashcoffeeshops. You can roll a joint or fill a pipe, sit out in the open air, and get high. Or you can take your purchase home and enjoy it there. And NOT get busted!
The tour ranges from the greenhouses of Sensi Seed's Cannabis Castle; to Positronics, where you can get everything you need to grow your own marijuana; to lush fields where large-scale hemp production is being subsidized by the European Economic Union; to the hash coffeeshops and hemp boutiques that dot Amsterdam. While maintaining a light hearted approach to a very serious subject, CANNABIS RISING explores the debate raging over medical marijuana; the effects of prohibition and America's failed War on Drugs; and the results of decriminalization on Dutch society. This innovative approach to drugs is discussed by sociologists and experts, marijuana tycoons, drug refugees from the US and elsewhere, and other observers and participants in the Dutch experiment.
Seeing this movie is almost as good as being there!
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American Film Institute Video Festival
Produced & Directed by Daniel Keller & Charles Light
Executive Producer: Betty Leifer
A Green Mountain Post/Betty Leifer Production
Associate Producer: Ed Rosenthal
Written by Steve Diamond
Muisc by David Bromberg, Scott Shetler and Patty Carpenter
Peace Trip
Young People Search for a World Without War
Produced and directed by Daniel Keller, Charles Light, and Steve Diamond
Music by Judy Collins & Peace Links
Narrated by Benjamin Quinto
A Green Mountain Post Films Production
While the bombs were blasting down on the Balkans, almost 10,000 world peace activists gathered in the Dutch city of The Hague-not coincidentally the site of the world's first peace conference in 1899 and today the home of the International Court of Justice-to proclaim their belief and desire for a future without war.
They came from hot war zones as well as from more peaceful parts of the planet. Led by president Cora Weiss, the Hague Appeal for Peace brought together numerous Nobel Laureates, such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jose Ramon Horta of East Timor, Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, landmine opponent Jody Williams, as well as Queen Noor of Jordan and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. All had come to The Hague to participate in seminars, conferences, discussions, and cultural entertainment, focusing on the winding road toward creating world peace-and how humanity might get there.
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The camera follows several young people through the ups and downs of their week at this conference, as they meet kids from all over the world that share their passions and frustrations. They debate, share information, strategize, and ultimately come together to make a joint proposal to the United Nations. There is a palpable sense of excitement in the air as they struggle to find a form for their voices.
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We follow young people from Kosovo and Belgrade as they strain to contain their emotions in the middle of intense debate and confrontation about NATO bombing and ethnic cleansing.
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We follow the musicians Peace Links from Sierra Leonne as they try to galvanize opposition to child soldiering with their music and education, and hear young people representing many countries speak about their situations and struggles. peace trip explores these developments in youth empowerment against the backdrop of the music, dramatic presentations, speeches, and spontaneous events that were the fabric of the Hague event.