Grassroots Theatre Network™
You no doubt know all about the controversy surrounding Michael Moore's shocking documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 during the 2004 election season. In typical no-holds-barred style, Michael gaive us a far different picture of the Bush Administration than protrayed on the nightly news and in the mainstream press. (You can see the trailer for the film at www.fahrenheit911.com.)
As Peter Jennings noted on World News Tonight, the medium of documentary film is becoming the brave new weapon against assaults on Americans’ right to free speech. -- Movie theatres, house parties, and e-mails are still able to fly under the radar of government regulation -- they're the new voice of the increasingly-silenced American People.
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Grassroots for AmericaSM (www.GrassrootsForAmerica.us) is rallying behind this movement to produce a new Grassroots Theatre Network™ – a link-up of bold movie theatres across the country willing to stand up and be counted by screening documentaries that address controversial political and social justice issues.
In the "tradition" of Fahrenheit 9/11, Grassroots for America will present a series of eye-opening documentaries at cooperating theatres as we continue our "Wake Up, America!" series. Films we've already screened include Robert Kane Pappas' Orwell Rolls In His Grave, Bob Greenwald's Unconstitutional, Sut Jhally and Jeremy Earp's Hijacking Catastrophe, Michael Paradies Shoob and Joseph Mealey's Bush's Brain and Greg Palast's film Bush Family Fortunes.
The series opened with September screenings of Unconstitutional in the Bethel, CT, Larkspur, CA, Philadelphia, PA, Salt Lake City, UT, and Atlanta, GA and Hijacking Catastrophe in Silver Spring, MD and continues with October screenings of Hijacking Catastrophe and Bush's Brain.
Our February 2005 selection was Danny Schechter's Weapons of Mass Deception
If you'd like to help us qualify your local (often independent) theater for membership in our Grassroots Theatre Network™ or organize showings at qualified theaters in your area, please let us know. You can either send us an e-mail (remeber to replace " at " with @ in the e-mail you send) or call Sandy at 203.743.5704 or Joe at 610.642.0451.
FYI, it usually takes less than a couple of hours to establish a conversation with a theatre owner/operator and when you get in touch with us we'll let you know exactly what it takes to qualify a theatre for the Network.