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ALERT: Larry Elder, Ted Hayes and Director Hal Needham to Speak at Liberty Film Festival [10/21-23]
www.LibertyFilmFestival.com ^ | October 14, 2005 | Jason Apuzzo

Posted on 10/17/2005 6:27:12 PM PDT by RonDog

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10/14/2005
ALERT: Larry Elder, Ted Hayes and Director Hal Needham to Speak at Liberty Film Festival
Filed under: — Jason @ 11:58 am

Larry Elder.

We’re pleased to announce that national talk show host Larry Elder will be speaking at this year’s Liberty Film Festival. Larry will be introducing Nina May’s film Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution, which is about the role of the Republican Party in the Civil Rights movement and in ending slavery. Nina’s extraordinary new documentary will be showing on Saturday, October 22nd at 1:30PM at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Tickets for this great event are selling fast and are only available at the Liberty Film Festival website.

We were proud to premiere Larry’s debut film Michael & Me to a wild, sold-out crowd at last year’s Liberty Film Festival, and to help that film get distribution. We’re very hopeful that Larry will continue to be a filmmaker, and take on more projects in the future …

Larry will be introducing Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution along with LA homeless activist Ted Hayes, who is a local legend around LA and is one of our favorite people here at the Liberty Film Festival! No one can liven-up a crowd like Ted, and putting him together with Larry should make for a memorable afternoon next Saturday …


Ted Hayes.

We’re also pleased to announce that director and legendary stuntman Hal Needham will be introducing our Saturday October 22nd (9:15PM) screening of John Wayne’s The Searchers at the Liberty Film Festival. Mr. Needham is one of Hollywood’s greatest stuntmen ever, and worked with John Wayne on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How the West Was Won, McLintock!, Donovan’s Reef, In Harm’s Way, The War Wagon, Hellfighters, Chisum, Rio Lobo and McQ. As a director, Mr. Needham is probably best known for the smash hit Smokey and the Bandit, which was his debut directing effort. [Incidentally, if adjusted for inflation, that film would’ve made $363 million at today’s domestic box office - putting it right behind The Passion, Revenge of the Sith, and The Two Towers on the all-time list.]

Mr. Needham will talking about his experiences with the Duke, and will also take audience questions. This is a rare opportunity to meet a Hollywood legend, who also worked with John Wayne - Hollywood’s greatest conservative - over many years! Tickets for this event are available here.


Hal Needham.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: annaz; filmfestival; libertyfilmfestival; losangeles; michaelmedved; tedhayes
See also THIS thread:
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 · 456+ views


www.NewsMax.com ^ | October 12, 2006 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

1 posted on 10/17/2005 6:27:13 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
"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...
From www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas:
10/3/2005

The Washington Times on Emancipation & The Liberty Film Festival

Filed under: — Jason @ 11:22 pm

John McCaslin’s “Inside the Beltway” column today for The Washington Times covered the Liberty Film Festival and one of the great films we’re showing at it: Nina May’s Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution. We’re extremely excited to be showing this film from Nina, who is tackling one of the most controversial issues in politics today: the historical role of the Republican Party in black Americans’ struggle for equal rights. Here’s an excerpt from John’s column:

Add documentary filmmaker to the resume of McLean resident Nina May among other titles of founder and chairman of the Renaissance Foundation, which brings together political and business leaders of different countries and cultural backgrounds. “Our film – ‘Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution’ – has been selected to be in the 2005 Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood, California, from October 21 to 23,” she tells Inside the Beltway.

“It is a documentary that looks at the history of the civil rights movement in America, the roles both major political parties played in that history, why blacks today are trapped on the liberal plantation, and what happens to conservative blacks when they choose to leave.”

Among the other feature films selected for the festival: “Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60,” “Cochise County, USA: Cries From the Border,” “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” “Fellowship 9/11,” “Grace Before Meals,” and a selection of Kurdish/Iraqi shorts from the First Short Film Festival in Iraq.

Nina’s Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution is about the foundational role of the Republican Party in the abolition of slavery, and also the Civil Rights movement. The film argues that the Republican Party was created to end slavery, and that major legal reforms and acts of legislation passed to give black Americans the vote - and full civil rights, equal to whites - were created and passed by Republican legislators.

The movie also follows the fascinating story of how every black American elected to Congress immediately after the Civil War was a Republican, how President Eisenhower signed into law some of the 20th century’s most important civil rights reforms, and how most black Americans up until the 1960s were Republicans!

It goes without saying that black Americans today are not usually given this information about their own history. Why? In large part to protect a ‘civil rights’ establishment that is beholden to the Democratic Party, and that is committed to keeping black Americans on the liberal ‘plantation.’


Alveda King, niece of Rev. Martin Luther King.

The film features interviews with conservative black intellectuals and activists like Shelby Steele, Deroy Murdock, Armstrong Williams, Niger Innis (CORE), Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Mason Weaver and Star Parker. It also features inteviews with Alveda King - the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King - and Gloria Jackson, the great-grand-daughter of Booker T. Washington.

There will be a special introduction of the film at the Festival by noted conservative black activist Ted Hayes, who’s well-known and well-loved around here in LA. And we’ll also have a Q&A with Nina May, who directed the film. Tickets for this event are going quickly, so get your tickets here. Showtime is 1:30PM, Saturday October 22nd at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

2 posted on 10/17/2005 6:30:54 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: AnnaZ; feinswinesuksass; DoughtyOne; Cinnamon Girl; Tony in Hawaii; Bob J; diotima; gc4nra; ...
From the OTHER thread:
Liberty Film Festival Opens in L.A. -
featuring Ron Silver, Evan Maloney - and FReeper AnnaZ!

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This CONSERVATIVE film festival -- in HOLLYWOOD! -- will feature an AMAZING new short film by our very own...
FReeper AnnaZ!!!
From www.LibertyFilmFestival.com:
EVENT 3
Saturday,
October 22
9:00AM
- 11:45AM


BUY TICKET
NEW VISIONS PROGRAM
A film shorts program featuring exciting new conservative filmmakers!

seals.jpg 9:00AM "Sealed For Your Protection" (12 mins., 2005)
Free speech advocate Anna Z. interviews LA residents, ACLU lawyers, former LA Mayor Jim Hahn, and talk show host Dennis Prager about the controversial decision of the LA County Board of Supervisors to remove the cross from the LA County Seal. A film by Anna Z. & Jeffers Dodge.
No word yet on whether our TEXAN FRiend (AnnaZ) will actually be attending the Festival.
3 posted on 10/17/2005 6:41:38 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
Liberty Film Festival Opens in L.A. - featuring Ron Silver, Evan Maloney - and FReeper AnnaZ!
From www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas:
9/20/2005

Ron Silver’s New UN Documentary, Broken Promises
Filed under: — Jason @ 1:08 pm


Actor-activist Ron Silver.

The LA Times features this article today about Ron Silver’s new documentary on the UN, Broken Promises. We’ve had the chance to see Broken Promises, which is an extraordinary account of the UN’s many failures - particularly throughout the 1990’s.

The film first takes audiences through a brief, encapsulated history of the UN as it arose from the ashes of two World Wars. The film revisits the heady days of the immediate, post-World War II years when it appeared that international cooperation could head-off major global conflicts, prevent wars, or mediate local strife. Broken Promises identifies this as the enormous promise or potential of the UN - a potential that has never yet been realized. Instead, the film identifies an early tendency - exemplified by the UN’s early handling of clashes over Kashmir, and over the founding of Israel - to conflate aggressors with their victims. This studied ‘neutrality’ of the UN - really a mask for its own weakness or lack of resolve - carried over for decades into later humanitarian disasters in Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia/Serbia.

Particularly chilling are the film’s first-hand accounts from those who experienced the Rwandan and Bosnian/Serbian massacres firsthand, and accounts from UN aid workers who were themselves betrayed by higher-ups. What one gleans from these extraordinary interviews is the scale of the problem with the UN - the immensity of its incompetence and corruption. One UN translator, for example, describes how Dutch UN ‘peacekeepers’ in Srebrenica knowingly delivered his own family to slaughter at the hands of the Serbs - in a moment that recalled Jews being packed into box-cars for shipment to Nazi death camps. The look of betrayal on this poor man’s face is almost too much to bear.

Broken Promises is an absorbing, enlightening, and infuriating documentary that has the potential to alter the debate about the UN as it reaches its 60th anniversary. Many of the people who participated in the documentary were the crucial UN operatives on the ground during some of the UN’s most notorious humanitarian catastrophes. Their experiences are difficult to ‘refute’ in the glib, off-handed manner so many liberals dismiss criticism of the UN. To listen to refugee Eugenie Mukeshimana, for example, talk about the relatives she lost during the Hutu killing-spree in Rwanda is nothing short of heart-wrenching. More than that, it’s something like a glimpse at hell on earth. Why did the UN do nothing? Why were Canadian General Romeo Dallaire’s warnings ignored (he’s also interviewed in the film)? These questions only hint at the vast and systemic failures of the UN - the institution many still believe was more ‘competent’ to handle the threat of Saddam Hussein than was the U.S. military.

Hint to LIBERTAS readers: there might just be a way to see this film on the big screen here in LA come late October …

CLICK HERE for the rest of that article

4 posted on 10/17/2005 7:31:05 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
From www.libertyfilmfestival.com:

The 2005 Liberty Film Festival will be held this October 21-23, 2005 [FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY] at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

The Liberty Film Festival showcases films that celebrate the traditional American values of free speech, patriotism, and religious freedom. Please note that festival tickets are only available for purchase on-line at the Liberty Film Festival website.

The festival will be held at the Pacific Design Center, SilverScreen Theatre, 2nd Floor Center Green, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

5 posted on 10/17/2005 7:33:05 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
And, also from www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas:
10/11/2005


ALERT: Passion Producer Steve McEveety to Speak at Liberty Film Festival

Filed under:

We're pleased to announce that noted producer Steve McEveety, producer of such films as The Passion of the Christ, We Were Soldiers, What Women Want, Payback and Braveheart will be joining the Liberty Film Festival's FILM FINANCE & DISTRIBUTION PANEL (Sunday, October 23rd, 3:45PM - at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood).

We're very proud that Mr. McEveety has agreed to participate in this event, which is a very valuable one not only for the general public but especially for conservative filmmakers interested in finance and distribution options for their projects.

Mr. McEveety was a vital member of the producing team behind The Passion, one of the most revolutionary films of the past 30 years. He began his career as an assistant editor and production manager, and has been involved in high-profile projects for the past 25 years. He rounds out what is a special gathering of industry figures at this year's Liberty Film Festival.

Along with Mr. McEveety, this year's industry speakers will include Frank Price (former Chairman of Columbia Pictures and President of Universal), Joel Surnow (Executive Producer of Fox's "24"), film critic Richard Schickel ("Elia Kazan: A Biography"), producer Warren Bell ("According to Jim"), producer Scott Gardenhour ("Pearl Harbor"), producer Doug Urbanski ("The Contender"), writer/producer Cyrus Nowrasteh ("Into The West," ABC's new 9/11 miniseries), screenwriter Andrew Klavan ("Don't Say A Word"), screenwriter Paul Guay ("Liar, Liar"), screenwriter Craig Titley ("Cheaper By The Dozen,"Scooby-Doo"), actor Robert Davi ("Profiler"), actress Morgan Brittany ("Dallas"), screenwriter Burt Prelutsky ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"), and screenwriter Robert Avrech ("Body Double").

The speakers will be joined at the festival by such conservative luminaries as film critic Michael Medved ("Right Turns"), author David Horowitz ("Unholy Alliance"), columnist Jim Hirsen ("Hollywood Nation"), screenwriter/blogger Roger L. Simon ("Scenes From A Mall").

I can't stress how unusual it is to have this group of people together at an openly conservative event in Hollywood...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that article

6 posted on 10/17/2005 7:36:13 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog

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7 posted on 10/18/2005 12:04:24 AM PDT by lainde
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To: lainde
Indexing RELATED threads:
San Pedro filmmakers showcase a conservative Hollywood
[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

8 posted on 10/20/2005 7:57:55 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
See also, from www.jewishjournal.com:
Filmfest Seeing Red
by 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.”


9 posted on 10/20/2005 6:10:34 PM PDT by RonDog
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