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Govindini Murty and Jason Apuzzo’s Liberty Film Festival features movies with conservative themes. They also founded a website that frequently takes jabs at liberal actors.
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Posted on 11/08/2006 3:16:28 PM PST by RonDog
. The Liberty Film Festival features conservative films in the blue heart of Hollywood. By Patrick Goldstein November 7, 2006 Having watched a batch of the films slated to screen this weekend, the festival still seems a few years away from being a real cinematic force, though it features several well-made documentaries, most notably "Suicide Killers," a chilling portrait of imprisoned suicide bombers by French Algerian filmmaker Pierre Rehov. As it turns out, Apuzzo and Murty's most inspired idea is their Libertas website (www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas). Launched in early 2005, the festival spinoff has emerged as a must read for anyone who cares about film and enjoys seeing Hollywood blowhards and hypocrites take a few jabs to the head. I couldn't agree less with most of its politics, but in an era in which most movie sites are dominated by gossips and geeks, Libertas is one of the few websites that actually takes movies — and their cultural influence — seriously... ...What especially bothers Apuzzo is the way this political stridency has infected the work of filmmakers today. He offers, as a comparison, Gillo Pontecorvo's "The Battle of Algiers," which he admires "because both sides, the French and Algerians, have their say. Too many filmmakers today wear their politics on their sleeves. They want to shock people instead of engage them with good stories..."
A film fest for the right
...this weekend Michael Moore followers will have to take a backseat to Michael Medved fans, thanks to the third annual Liberty Film Festival, which opens Friday at the Pacific Design Center. The festival is the brainchild of Jason Apuzzo and Govindini Murty, husband-and-wife film devotees who are on a mission to establish a conservative beachhead of cultural influence in the movie business.
(Excerpt) Read more at calendarlive.com ...
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Govindini Murty and Jason Apuzzo’s Liberty Film Festival features movies with conservative themes. They also founded a website that frequently takes jabs at liberal actors.
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This is the way for conservatives to go. They ought to start a network too because they aren't ever going to be given a chance by the propagandist network media.
I would take that chick to a conservative film festival any day.
I would take that chick to a conservative film festival any day.As would MANY guys on this forum...
Except that he MARRIED to the guy who is posing with her in that photograph.
Having watched a batch of the films slated to screen this weekend, the festival still seems a few years away from being a real cinematic force, though it features several well-made documentaries, most notably "Suicide Killers," a chilling portrait of imprisoned suicide bombers by French Algerian filmmaker Pierre Rehov.See also, from www.freemarketnews.com:
COURAGEOUS FILM-MAKERS
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
No, I do not mean the Dixie Chicks and their moronic "Shut up and sing" (if only!).
Their "blacklisting" and claims of victim status are even more preposterous than those of the famous Hollywood Ten (every one of whom was a Communist and lied about it and every one of whom went on being employed in the film industry in the States or Europe) and their acolytes. The Dixie Chicks and their supporters appear to think that if people do not buy their records for whatever reason, their constitutional rights are under attack. Otherwise, I cannot quite see how they were "blacklisted", given the amount of publicity the wretched group received on both sides of the Pond.Libertas, a conservative film website (oh for something like that in Britain) has a posting about a truly courageous film-maker, Pierre Rehov, whose films will be shown at the Liberty Film Festival (oh for something like that in Britain).
Rehov is a French-Algerian film-maker who risked his life to make "Suicide-Killers". He went into the terrorist training camps, interviewed the would-be killers, talked to their families and to those who had failed and were in Israeli prisons.
This astounding documentary shows first-hand that terrorists are created not by Israeli or American foreign policy, but by the repression, lack of democratic freedom, and poverty of Arab societies.
Not, perhaps, surprising to many of us but worth saying and worth documenting. The courage of this man is quite astonishing.
He has made another film, called "From the River to the Sea" in which he looks at the Palestinian claim to Israel but, more than that, documents the treatment of Palestinian by other Arab states and by their own leadership; talks about the huge amount of money stolen from the Palestinians (nobody even mentions Arafat’s widow and other friends and relations of the late unlamented Chairman):From the River to the Sea is an eye-opening documentary about how the UN and Arab nations surrounding Israel have conspired to keep Palestinians in refugee camps without jobs, citizenship, or opportunity, thereby encouraging them to turn to terrorism against Israel. The film features shocking footage of Palestinian terrorists escaping in UN vans, and explores the controversial issue of "right of return." It also documents the shocking corruption of UNRWA and the PLO in robbing hundreds of millions from Palestinian refugees, and reveals the anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish propaganda that is taught to schoolchildren in UN-funded schools in Palestinian camps.
I have only one question. How soon will a courageous British cinema or film festival run either film if only in order to open a discussion?
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The Return of the Good Guys
[3rd annual CONSERVATIVE Liberty Film Festival in L.A. 11/10-12/06]
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 11/01/2006 5:05:15 AM PST · 20 replies · 267+ views
www.canadafreepress.com ^ | November 1, 2006 | Judi McLeod
The Liberty Film Festival in Los Angeles
Posted by libertylovinactivist
On News/Activism 10/27/2006 10:05:34 PM PDT · 6 replies · 203+ views
The Liberty Film Festival ^
Box-office politics:
CONSERVATIVE Liberty Film Festival in HOLLYWOOD 11/10-12,
L.A. Chapter invited!
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 10/23/2006 5:56:31 PM PDT · 54 replies · 1,489+ views
The Jewish Journal ^ | 10/20/06 | Rob Eshman, Editor-in-Chief
These people are really on the front line and doing a great job.
You got THAT right!
Let's see. For one solid year prior to the election how many favorable articles concerning conservatives did the LA Times print? How many articles did they print favorable to the liberals and Democrats? Now that the election is over they print a sop for the conservatives and we are to forget what the Times is?
The L.A. Slimes, is STILL, well slime. :o)But I will take whatever help we can get, within reason -- for such a good cause -- like this film festival. :o).
Actually, the LA Times is the one MSM outlet that *regularly* show up on FR with folks expressing surprise at their reporting something fairly and honestly, or even with a hint of support for our side of an issue.
I think they may have a few of the last, old school seriously-trying-to-be-objective journalists lurking there, either than or a handful of closet conservatives.
Are you going?
Will YOU be there, too?
It's a long commute from PA. Hope it goes well.
I understand! :o)
SOME tickets are STILL available online, at:www.libertyfilmfestival.com
Thanks RonDog... very cool.
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