[Media-watch] FW: The News you don't see on the News!

[David Miller]

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From: undercurrents news network <underc at gn.apc.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:07:32 +0100
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
Subject: The News you don't see on the News!

This is a one off email to announce the relase of the Undercurrents
altenative News DVD.

90 minutes of the News you don't see on the News from some of the most
radical filmmakers worldwide.

Contents include

When the Smoke Clearz

>From the Guerrilla News Network <http://gnn.tv>  crew in USA - a music video
highlighting the dark forces behind hip hop.
3 mins 

Hercubush
A BangZoomTV remix of the 60s Hercules series retelling the story of why
Bush invaded Iraq. 
The lengths one man will go to for a well-oiled torso!
4 mins

Whose News?
Fed up of news spin? Undercurrents presents the humourous unspun truth
behind the anti-war movement, women's empowerment, protest shopping and bald
policemen.
Includes an interview with Oscar-winning actor Martin Sheen about anti-war
activism.
15 mins

Consumption
"Keep on buying so much I don't need..."
A rapid-paced music explosion from underground music maestro Toby Slater
<http://www.tobyslater.com/> .
3 mins

Occupation
EnMasse Films <http://www.enmassefilms.org/>  present a stunning 'reality'
documentary about how Harvard students defeated the world's oldest
corporation and gained a living wage for low-paid workers (currently being
screened across the USA).
30 mins

Read My Lips
Bush and Blair - that special relationship uncovered in a hilarious send up.
Watch as Tony sings into George's eyes - guaranteed to break the ice at any
screening!
>From ATMO <http://www.atmo.se/> .
2.5 mins 

The Meatrix
Welcome to the real world of intensive animal farming.
A spoof on the Matrix blockbuster series, it's fast becoming a cult across
the web.
By Flash animators free range graphics <http://www.freerangegraphics.com/> .
3.5 mins

Woomera Breakout
Ska TV <http://www.skatv.org.au/> 's incredible story of how hundreds of
activists broke down the fences to release Iraqi and Afghanistani refugees
from Australia's worst asylum seeker detention centre.
7 mins

Wild Horses of Newbury (on DVD only)
Voted the most popular Undercurrents film yet by viewers.
An inspiring tale of how two horses put their bodies in front of the
chainsaws during the disastrous roadbuilding scheme.
Produced by Mark Carroll and Undercurrents.

With contributions from:
Mark Thomas (activist comedian)
Ben Affleck (Academy Award winning actor)
Martin Sheen (award winning actor from Apocalyse Now)
a former MI5 secret agent
and
Tony Benn ex-MP

check it out on http://www.undercurrents.org/unn


<http://www.undercurrents.org/unn>


Undercurrents
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celebrating 10 years of reporting 1994- 2004

Undercurrents News Network now out on DVD
http://www.undercurrents.org/unn


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