Posted on 10/12/2005 2:20:08 PM PDT by RonDog
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 8:43 a.m. EDT
The festival will be held October 21-23, 2005, at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
From Citizens United (the producers of "Celsius 41.11") and Peace River Company, "Broken Promises" is an explosive documentary about the enormous potential of the UN at its founding - and its failure to live up to that potential in humanitarian disasters in Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Middle East. The film features narration by Ron Silver, and interviews with Donald Trump, Natan Sharansky, Claudia Rosett, Congressman Dan Burton, General Romeo Dallaire, and UN officials, peacekeepers, and aid workers.
The Liberty Film Festival is proud to host the LA premiere of "Broken Promises." The film's writer/director Kevin Knoblock and executive producers David Bossie and Ron Silver are planning to attend in person.
The Liberty Film Festival is also proud to host the World Premiere of "Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester" by rising documentarian Evan Maloney. "Brainwashing 201" is a hilarious yet sobering look at political correctness run amok on college campuses, and is a special preview of Maloney's feature film due out in 2006. "Brainwashing 201" is directed by Maloney, and produced by Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenburg. Also featured on opening night will be "Dead Meat," a satirical look at Canadian socialized medicine - and a response to Michael Moore's forthcoming "Sicko." The film is directed and produced by Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenburg. Other feature films to be screened in the festival are "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" (World Premiere), the stunning sequel to "Relentless," directed by Wayne Kopping and produced by Raphael Shore and Peter Mier; "Cochise County, USA: Cries From the Border" (World Premiere), a timely film about illegal immigration produced and directed by Mercedes Maharis;
"Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution" (World Premiere), a striking film about the Republican Party's role in ending slavery and supporting the Civil Rights movement, directed by Nina May and produced by Nina May and Tricia Erickson; and "Entering Zion," an avant garde journey through modern Israel directed and produced by Kfir Alfia and Alan Lipton of the Protest Warriors. The Liberty Film Festival will also present a special "Voices of Iraqi Freedom" program featuring shorts from the First Short Film Festival in free Iraq. These shorts by young Kurdish and Iraqi filmmakers are being screened for the first time outside of Iraq. They will be shown with the award-winning drama "Jiyan" by Kurdish/Iraqi director Jano Rosebiani. The Liberty Film Festival also features an outstanding lineup of industry speakers this year. Speakers include Steve McEveety, Producer of Mel Gibson's "The Passion," film critic and author Michael Medved ("Right Turns"), author David Horowitz ("Unholy Alliance"), Frank Price (former Chairman of Columbia Pictures and President of Universal Pictures), Joel Surnow (Executive Producer of Fox's "24"), and film critic Richard Schickel ("Elia Kazan: A Biography"). Other notables scheduled to participate include actor Robert Davi ("Profiler"), actress Morgan Brittany ("Dallas"), author Jim Hirsen ("Hollywood Nation"), producer Warren Bell ("According to Jim"), producer Scott Gardenhour ("Pearl Harbor"), producer Doug Urbanski ("The Contender"), writer/producer Cyrus Nowrasteh ("Into The West"), writer/blogger Roger L. Simon ("Scenes From A Mall"), screenwriter Andrew Klavan ("Don't Say A Word"), screenwriter Craig Titley ("Cheaper By The Dozen"), screenwriter Paul Guay ("Liar, Liar"), screenwriter Burt Prelutsky ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"), and screenwriter Robert Avrech ("Body Double"). Saturday, October 22, the festival will also host a "Tribute to John Wayne," featuring a screening of his 1956 classic "The Searchers." Sunday, October 23, the festival will conclude with a "100th Birthday Tribute to Ayn Rand" featuring a screening of the 1942 Italian classic "We The Living." Tickets to the Liberty Film Festival are available online only at: http://www.libertyfilmfestival.comReprinted from NewsMax.com
Liberty Film Festival Opens in L.A. [featuring FReeper AnnaZ!]
The Liberty Film Festival, Hollywood's only conservative film festival, returns for its second year with opening night premieres of "Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60," narrated by actor Ron Silver, and "Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester," directed by Evan Maloney.
...Gary Oldman doesn't play a villain in The Contender — at least not according to the actor's manager, Douglas Urbanski. And, even though Oldman went on the record in Premiere magazine as siding with his character in the political drama, don't call the Brit actor a conservative, insists Urbanski.Nearly every reviewer in the country has jumped to the conclusion that Oldman's character, Sen. Shelly Runyon, is yet another rogue in the actor's crowded gallery of villains.
"We did not set out to make a movie about a nasty, villainous Republican," Urbanski explains to Mr. Showbiz. Urbanski co-produced the film and makes no secret of the fact that his own political leanings are diametrically opposed to those of the "left-leaning billionaires," as he refers to DreamWorks heads Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg...
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"I belong to the 'I want my movie to succeed' party," quips Urbanski, who's voting for George W. Bush come Election Day...
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...Other feature films to be screened in the festival are "Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West" (World Premiere), the stunning sequel to "Relentless," directed by Wayne Kopping and produced by Raphael Shore and Peter Mier;
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[LIBERTY FILM FESTIVAL starts FRIDAY 10/21]
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 10/20/2005 7:33:25 AM PDT · 4 replies · 46+ views
www.dailybreeze.com ^ | October 20, 2005 | Nick Green
ALERT:
Larry Elder, Ted Hayes and Director Hal Needham to Speak at Liberty Film Festival
[10/21-23]
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 10/17/2005 6:27:12 PM PDT · 6 replies · 123+ views
www.LibertyFilmFestival.com ^ | October 14, 2005 | Jason Apuzzo
Liberty Film Festival Opens in L.A. -
featuring Ron Silver, Evan Maloney - and FReeper AnnaZ!
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 10/12/2005 2:20:08 PM PDT · 28 replies · 486+ views
www.NewsMax.com ^ | October 12, 2006 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Filmfest Seeing Redby David Finnigan, Contributing Writer
Conservative filmmakers will invade West Hollywood this weekend for the second annual, Bush-loving Liberty Film Festival, with WeHo’s Pacific Design Center becoming a haven to some Jewish entertainment names who vote red while living among the blue.
“It’s a film festival with a clear point of view — also a countercultural point of view,” said prominent talk show host, author and film critic Michael Medved. Medved is a filmfest board member who will fly down from Seattle after Shabbat on Sunday to moderate a panel featuring Joel Surnow, the executive producer of Fox’s “24,” and ex-studio chief Frank Price.
Thespian Robert Downey Jr. and KABC-AM talk show host Larry Elder will pop by, too. Actor Ron Silver, who shocked Hollywood liberals last year by addressing the Republican National Convention, will premiere, “Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60,” a 65-minute documentary. His narration catalogues U.N. failures.
The festival also will have Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel, conservative scribe Ron Radosh and progressive Hollywood author Ed Rampell (see Rampell’s op-ed piece on Page 11) on hand to debate the question: “Was Communism a Threat to Hollywood?”
Several of last year’s festival entries took on Michael Moore’s film, “Fahrenheit 9/11.” This year, the festival’s slate is more balanced, with Moore-bashing reduced to one 15-minute parody short called, “Fellowship 9/11.”
The festival isn’t a conservative “attempt to take over Hollywood,” Medved told The Journal by telephone from Seattle. “What I think people are tying to do is begin a conversation about a little bit more political balance. These people [generic Hollywood liberals] function in a world in which they are so hermetically sealed from the rest of America.”
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