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Liberty Film Festival Opens in L.A. - featuring Ron Silver, Evan Maloney - and FReeper AnnaZ!
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"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

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— 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...

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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! 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.

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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

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— 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 …

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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.