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BUENAONDA
FILMS
presents: 'THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY' Worldwide Screening January 23rd 2009 |
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 SPONSORS:
Constantin Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders, Kenneth Loach, Bernardo Bertolucci |
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| THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION HERALDS A NEW ERA FOR INDEPENDENT FILM EXHIBITION On
23rd
January, the political documentary ‘THE NEW
AMERICAN CENTURY’ will be screened worldwide through a network
of
digital cinemas ranging from Italy to Brasil, from Spain to South
Africa. With wide international press coverage and the support of
prominent
filmmakers from all over the world, the idea behind this event is to
show that the existing digital network is already capable of
effectively delivering a complete product on a global basis.
The digital revolution is working at both ends of the chain, the clear beneficiary being the audience in the middle. On one end the exibitor, faced with dramatically lower costs, can afford to choose from a much wider range of films than those offered by the mainstream circuit. On the other end, filmmakers can now embark in low-cost, hi-quality production with the full awareness that there is a valid, worldwide venue awaiting their product, enabling them to reach a proportionately satisfiyng audience. At the same time the astonishing rate of technical improvement by the Internet indicates that the full integration of the digital realm is only minutes away. When that happens, the array of possibilities -- ranging from downloadable updates for works-in-progress to live, server-to-theater digital feed -- will make the existing system so obsolete that it won't even be necessary to figth the restrictions the majors are now triyng to impose on digital distribution, in a desperate effort to survive such rapidly changing times. Large empires usually can provide their own means for a crushing demise. |
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THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
While Massimo Mazzucco’s first
political documentary, GLOBAL DECEIT (2006), focused on the long list
of inconsistencies in the official version of the 9/11 attacks,
THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY explores the historical, philosophical and
economic background that suggests a matrix for such event much closer to home than the
so-called "Islamic terrorism". To put it in the words of former CIA
agent Robert Steele, "In the White House, they weren't thinking of 9/11
as an attack, but as a gift!"
The film provides solid evidence
for the true reasons behind the
Afghanistan and Iraq wars, whose unfolding is described in chilling
detail in a document called "Project for the New American Century",
published in the year 2,000, that seems to have served as the actual
blueprint for such dramatic events.
 GO to the trailer View a streaming copy of the WHOLE FILM (English and Spanish versions available) |
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THE
DIGITAL NETWORK
CURRENTLY ACTIVE: 54 cinemas in the Italian Microcinema
network. 20 screens in 5 cities in Brasil, with potential for over a
100. 6 screens in Bolivia, 3 in Argentina, 15 in Peru, 5 in Costa Rica,
12 in Cuba, 3 in Puerto Rico. A network of cinematheques including
Paris, Sao Paulo, La Paz and Athens. 7 screens in South Africa. Screens
in Romania, Poland, Greece, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
PROJECTED: Screens in Dubai and Azerbaijan. A network of film societies and educational screens in UK universities, integrating some of the 250 screens funded by the Film Council. A network of digital screens in Germany, as well as the Cinema Net Europe networks with additional screens in Spain, France and The Netherlands. |
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