Screening Series Showcase: Coming of Age
With so many filmmakers, organizations and everyday bloggers creating video, Netroots Nation is delighted to offer a screening showcase that will feature short segments of the diverse work created by, distributed through and appealing to the Netroots. This showcase will present several film projects, giving each filmmaker up to 15 minutes minutes to show a clip, discuss the project, ask for feedback / help / connections.
Children of War: Filmed inside the war zone of northern Uganda over a period of three years, this unique and incandescent documentary chronicles the story of a group of former child soldiers as they undergo a process of emotional and spiritual healing while in a rehabilitation center.
Another Camp is Possible: A film about Camp Kinderland, a camp with a conscience, directed by Netroots Nation regular, Laughing Liberally comedian and Huffington Post contributor Katie Halper.
State of Security: A new film by award-winning director Michele Ohayon, in which former counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke sharply demystifies the role of government and how we can take control over its actions. The film looks at the U.S. and the world, bringing new hopes and roads to avoid future failures.
Countdown to Zero: Countdown to Zero traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possess nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident.
Written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight), the film features an array of important international statesmen, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair.
Countdown to Zero makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more topical than ever with the Obama administration working to revive this goal today.
The film was produced by Academy Award® winner and 2009 nominee Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds, An Inconvenient Truth) and developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, together with World Security Institute.
Additional films may be included in this session. Line-up is subject to change -- please consult online calendar for up-to-date schedule.
Raised on the mean streets of New York City's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Katie graduated from The Dalton School (where she teaches history) and Wesleyan University (where she learned that labels are for jars.) Katie is a national director of Living Liberally and a founder of and comedian in Laughing Liberally, a political comedy collective. She has performed comedy throughout the country at venues including Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project in New York, the D.C. Comedy Festival, Jimmy Tingles in Boston and at all three Netroots Nations (the Convention formerly known as Yearly Kos). Katie has performed with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Hightower. Her political satire appears regularly on the Huffington Post, Alternet, Daily Kos, Open Left, Working Life, Culture Kitchen and the political comedy site 23/6. Katie has been interviewed and featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, LA Times, In These Times, Jezebel, Gawker, on Air America, The Sam Seder Show, The Mark Maron Show, Laura Flanders' GritTV, WBAI, Sirius Radio, XM Radio POTUS, and Fox News Channel's The Alan Colmes Show. The National Review (believe it or not) called Katie "cute" and "a little brainy." Katie's award-winning documentary about historical memory in Spain, La memoria es vaga, has been screened throughout Spain and the U.S. Katie was the co-producer of Tim Robbins and DCTV's Embedded Live, Associate Producer of Estela Bravo's Free to Fly: the U.S. Cuba Link, and outreach director of Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's documentary The Take (La toma). Katie is currently editing her next documentary, Another Camp Is Possible, about Camp Kinderland (where Katie went, and her mother and gandmother worked) and their "Peace Olympics," the camp's non-violent and socially conscious alternative to Color Wars.
