Friday, 6 January 2012

Occupy Cinema: Inside Occupy Wall Street's Collaborative Documentary


I can't embed the video, but you will find it at the above link.

On October 2nd, filmmaker Audrey Ewell suddenly found herself in the middle of a new project. The previous day, nearly 1,500 protesters made their way from Zuccotti Park across the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Nearly 700 were arrested.

After spending the day filming the confrontation between police and protesters with her partner, Aaron Aites, Ewell emailed a few fellow filmmakers to see if they'd be interested in shooting a documentary on the then-undercovered Occupy movement. The response was enormous and immediate, and with a single email thread, 99%: the Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, was born ...

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