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Eugene Jarecki’s “The Six Billion Dollar Man” plunges into the digital rabbit hole that is Julian Assange and his creation, WikiLeaks. This is not a hagiography, nor is it a simple condemnation; rather, it’s a sprawling chronicle of a man who became a symbol, a cypher, and eventually, a highly sought-after commodity in the global chess game of information control.

The film attempts to untangle the myriad threads of Assange’s story – the meteoric rise, the shadowy machinations of state power, and the fundamental, almost quaint, questions about what a society has a right to know.

It’s a narrative thick with the metallic taste of modern espionage and the disquieting hum of servers holding inconvenient facts. Jarecki, with a documentarian’s zeal, charts this complex territory, aiming for a definitive statement on an era where secrets became weapons and transparency, a battleground.

From Digital Upstart to Global Agitator

WikiLeaks,...

Buffalo 8 Buys Comedy-Drama ‘Beyond The Likes’ – Cannes

Exclusive: Buffalo 8 Distribution has acquired comedy-drama Beyond the Likes at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in Chicago in 2008, it stars Matt Rife (Wild ‘n Out), Don Benjamin (Him), Terrance J (Think Like a Man), Stephanie Nur (1883), Andrew Bach (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) and George Lopez (George Lopez) and follows five friends navigating adulthood and stumbling upon the formula to become the world’s first influencers. When Cam (Benjamin), the group’s aspiring model, meets wealthy Abu Dhabi heiress Nefertari (Nur), their instant connection leads to a clash of cultures. Rhyan Lamarr is the director and Adam Key (NCIS: Los Angeles) is the writer. Shooting took place in Abu Dhabi, Chicago and L.A., with Elijah Long and Qais Qandil the producers. Grady Craig, Buffalo 8’s President, negotiated the deal and is an exec producer along with Buffalo 8 co-founders Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor.

The saga of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has dragged on long enough, and complicatedly enough, to render a number of past films about him, if not obsolete, clear period pieces. Documentaries like Alex Gibney’s 2013 “We Steal Secrets” and Laura Poitras’ 2016 “Risk,” both produced during the Obama era, are informed by a very different political climate from the one we’re in now — while neither could have anticipated how the Australian editor and activist’s legal difficulties would escalate in the years to come. With Assange finally freed last year after 12 years of confinement or outright imprisonment in the U.K., the time feels right for an expansive catch-up on the whole knotty affair: Enter Eugene Jarecki’s plainly presented but detail-packed documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” which premiered at Cannes (with Assange himself present) in the festival’s Special Screenings program.

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Unless you followed the ups and downs — well, mostly the downs — of Julian Assange’s life over the past 15 years, you’ll have to wait until the last half-hour of Eugene Jarecki’s new documentary, The Six Billion Dollar Man, to understand what its title means.

By that point, the WikiLeaks founder had been holed up for over six years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he faced imminent arrest by the UK authorities. It’s then that we learn how the first Trump administration offered, via the Imf, to loan Ecuador’s government $6.5 billion if they agreed to kick Assange out. The move is not exactly shocking, especially coming from a dealmaker like Trump, and it shows just how much the U.S. authorities were willing to pay so they could nab one of their most wanted men.

Much of Jarecki’s jam-packed and informative two-hour feature, which...

Wherever corporate power is running roughshod over culture, the climate, the economy, or our politics, progressives can count on Naomi Klein to provide a clear-eyed assessment of the damage and to offer pathways to resist with hope, rather than cower in despair.

A social activist and public intellectual, Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine — about how right-wing elites leverage moments of crisis to advance unpopular economic agendas — and This Changes Everything: Capitalism Versus the Climate, an examination of how free-market dogma is accelerating the threat to our planet’s survival.

The star of Baywatch and The Last Showgirl answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Stella McCartney, Liam Neeson, Ruby Wax and Naomi Klein

Pamela Anderson, makeup-free and beautiful in a floral Westwood suit, is making a fuss of my dog. My dog likes her. I’m not a particular believer in the idea that animals are great character judges but, in this case, me and the dog are aligned. I like Anderson too. She combines openness with a kind of vulnerability, and you warm to her immediately.

Settled on a sofa in a small dressing room off a photography studio, she asks for a coffee and promptly spills it everywhere. “I strive for imperfection,” she jokes. “I strive for it, and I just hit it every time.” Cortado mopped, she takes a breath, before talking excitedly of a new phase in her eventful life. “A door opened,...

Just like fashion trends, sneaker styles are also constantly evolving. Design and function-wise, sneakers have indeed changed a lot over the years. They were originally invented for athletics purposes, but they eventually turned into a fashion statement.

However, while shoe designs are changing, there are shoe brands and styles that will always remain iconic. Take, for example, Nike.

Air Force 1 is one of the most popular and iconic shoe silhouettes by Nike (Credit: Sport Car Hub / Shutterstock)

From its small beginning in Oregon, Nike has grown into the world’s largest athletic footwear and apparel manufacturer.

Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan is more than just a tagline; it’s a call to action, a mantra that inspires millions to challenge their limits. As Naomi Klein eloquently puts it, “When Nike says, just do it, that’s a message of empowerment. Why aren’t the rest of us speaking to...

Margaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund, which raises funds for and makes grants to non violent climate activists. She is the Author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth.

Who is to blame for the Los Angeles fires? For the destruction of Asheville? The devastation of Acapulco? If you listen to the mainstream media, you would get the impression that no one is truly responsible. These are framed as tragic but random events– acts of nature without clear cause or accountability.

Sherry Lansing, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, David Mamet, Gene Simmons, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, and Scooter Braun are among the high-profile entertainment industry figures who have added their names to a counter-petition organized by the Creative Community for Peace in response to a letter published earlier this week calling for a boycott of “Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.”

The initial open letter, which refers to the Israel-Gaza conflict as a “genocide,” counts as its signatories more than 1,000 writers including Normal People author Sally Rooney, Naomi Klein, Rachel Kushner, Annie Ernaux, Percival Everett and Jonathan Lethem.

The counter-petition “reject[s] the calls to boycott Israel and Jewish writers, publishers, authors, book festivals and literary agencies, along with those who support, work with, or platform them” and argues that “the instincts and motivations behind cultural boycotts, in practice and throughout history,...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay by Jordan Peele

Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay by Jordan Peele will be published on October 11 via Inventory Press, who previously released a similar book for Get Out.

Priced at $19.95, the 208-page softcover book illustrates Peele’s script with over 150 stills from the film, deleted scenes, in-depth annotations, and an introduction by Peele.

It includes writing by Hannah Baer, Theaster Gates, Jamieson Webster, Jared Sexton, Mary Ping, Shana Redmond, and Leila Taylor, alongside excerpts from Naomi Klein, Coleson Whitehead, Maggie Nelson, Carol J. Clover, Michael Harrington, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Puppet Master: Leach Woman Figure & Toulon’s Trunk from Neca

Neca will release a Puppet Master ultimate action figure two-pack...

Exclusive: Two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda has signed on as an executive producer of Norita ahead of the film’s world premiere June 25 at the Dances With Films festival in Hollywood.

The documentary tells the extraordinary story of Nora “Norita” Cortiñas who helped found a movement of Argentinian mothers in the 1970s whose children had been “disappeared” by the country’s right-wing military regime. Cortiñas and other women began protesting against the government in a square in Buenos Aires in April 1977, only a couple of weeks after Cortiñas’s son Carlos Gustavo was abducted and disappeared. They became known as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Norita Cortiñas (middle with glasses) leads the December 16, 1982 Marcha del Pueblo por la Democracia y la Reconstrucción Nacional.

What happened to Gustavo was never determined; he, like thousands of others snatched by Argentina’s dictatorship, would forever remain “desaparecidos.” Despite her grief, Cortiñas...

Prominent literary organization Pen America has canceled its annual awards ceremony, which was due to be held next week, after 28 authors chose to withdraw their books from consideration. The group has faced increasing backlash over its response to the Israel-Hamas War. Among those dropping out was debut novel finalist Rachel Eliza Griffiths, wife of former Pen president Salman Rushdie, according to the Associated Press.

Of those withdrawing are also nine out of the 10 authors nominated for the Pen/Jean Stein Book Award. The Literary Estate of Jean Stein has directed Pen America to donate the $75,000 award to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, representatives said on Monday.

The decision to cancel the awards comes in the wake of escalating upset against Pen America. A series of open letters signed by Pen nominees in recent weeks have criticized the group for allegedly choosing sides against Gaza in the war that started...

Ladies and gentlemen, it appears Aaron Rodgers, who’s taken a grand total of four snaps as quarterback of the New York Jets, has lost his mind.

This week, during his weekly appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show (or if a WWE wrestler on bath salts hosted a sports program), he sorta accused Jimmy Kimmel of associating with Jeffrey Epstein — exacting revenge against Kimmel for ragging on Rodgers and his public Covid vaccine skepticism in his late-night monologues. This latest outburst follows a string of recent kooky behavior,...

When Amy Carlson’s mummified body was found in April 2021, it looked like a blue skeleton. It was also in a sleeping bag wrapped in Christmas lights. Her followers in the Love Has Won cult were apparently still waiting for the Galactics, a group of dead luminaries led by Robin Williams, to come pick her up in their spaceship. Somehow, this never happened. Instead, the cops came.

On planet Earth this could all easily pass for insanity. But the Love Has Won crew thought Earth was for suckers, as we learn in the riveting,...

Digital database Internet Archive lost the first ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the “nonprofit library” by four of the biggest publishing companies.

In June 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, John Wiley & Sons, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House sued Internet Archive over their attempt to create a “National Emergency Library” by uploading countless e-books — or scanned versions of printed books — for users to “borrow” while bookstores and libraries across the nation were shuttered due to the pandemic.

“Its goal of creating digital copies of books...

A group of authors and other creative professionals are lending their names to an open letter protesting publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive Library, characterizing it as one of a number of efforts to curb libraries’ lending of ebooks.

Authors including Neil Gaiman, Naomi Klein, Cory Doctorow and Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, lent their names to the letter, which was organized by the public interest group Fight for the Future.

“Libraries are a fundamental collective good. We, the undersigned authors, are disheartened by the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the American Association of Publishers and the Publishers Association: undermining the traditional rights of libraries to own and preserve books, intimidating libraries with lawsuits, and smearing librarians,” the letter states.

A group of publishers sued the Internet Archive in 2020, claiming that its open library violates copyright by producing “mirror image copies...

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, the Postal Service) has released a new collaboration with electronic producer Tycho.

The song, titled “Only Love,” is a breezy track that has been a long time coming for the two artists.

“I had been a fan of Ben’s work for a long time when, in 2016, I had the chance to do a remix for Death Cab for Cutie’s track ‘The Ghosts of Beverly Drive,’” Scott Hansen, a.k.a. Tycho, said in a statement. “Ben’s voice was a very inspiring...

“Economic inequality” is a phrase that not long ago was seldom heard outside various ivory towers. But in recent years, the proliferation of billionaires, contrasting shrinkage of the middle class and livable wages, not to mention Big Money’s ever-increasing political clout, have all dragged that concept into popular awareness. Conservatives have fought back by renewed demonization of their old nemesis, “Socialism.” But not everyone is buying that scare tactic anymore, or accepting that unfettered capitalism remains a reliable path to the American Dream for any but a privileged few.

Yael Bridge’s concise and engaging “The Big Scary ’S’ Word” provides a persuasive analysis of the topic, as well as considerable argument for the notion that the basic principles of socialism are (as one interviewee here puts it) “as American as apple pie.” Greenwich Entertainment will release the documentary to theaters on Labor Day, Sept. 3, following nearly a year on the festival circuit.

Alternativet Produksjon, the Norwegian film banner behind Guro Bruusgaard’s “Him,” has more thought-provoking projects in the pipeline, including Mariken Halle’s pandemic-themed film “The Outdoor School” and Katja Eyde Jacobsen’s feminist movie “The Second Sex.”

The company was launched in 2017 by four filmmakers, including Halle, Jacobsen, Bruusgaard and Magnus Mork to produce their movies collectively, with a special interest in politically or socially engaged projets. The banner’s latest film credit, “Him,” revolves around three males of different ages who experience some form of social humiliation. The buzzed-about film had its international premiere last month at the Moscow Festival, where it competed.

“The Second Sex,” which seems to be the female counterpart to “Him,” follows three generations of Norwegian women in different social settings. Weaving documentary and fictional elements, the film revolves around a grandmother, a mother and a daughter, and their relationship with one another. “The Second...

Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment announced Thursday it has acquired North American distribution rights to The Big Scary “S” Word, a feature documentary that “explores the rich history of the American socialist movement.”

The company plans a theatrical release on Friday, September 3—Labor Day Weekend—an auspicious date given the holiday’s historical ties to workers’ rights. The documentary marks the feature directorial debut of Yael Bridge, whose credits include producing the Emmy-nominated Saving Capitalism (2017).

“I feel so lucky to team up with Greenwich Entertainment with their incredible track record of bringing powerful films to the public,” Bridge remarked. “The timing of this release couldn’t be better, as we’re seeing a fundamental realignment in political thinking about the role of government and the need to work collectively, not just in order to thrive but literally to survive.”

Democratic socialism as a political philosophy has gained traction in the U.S.

The following is an editorial written by actors Emma Thompson and Gael García Bernal.

Don’t get us wrong: we believe in the cautionary power of dystopian stories. As actors, we have both brought to life worlds ravaged by uncontrollable disease, lethal weather, and mad kings. This form of art has a long and rich tradition: it acts as a warning of what is to come if society does not change course. But in times like ours, we’ve been feeling the urge to experiment in something a little more challenging: utopian art. After all, you don’t need much imagination for dystopia these days.

Right now, things are bleak, and likely to get bleaker. The first debate of the U.S. presidential election felt like it was scripted to induce existential nausea — which fits with the historical moment we’re in. We’ve seen raging fires and storms collide...

It’s hard to read the news these days, as ever-deadlier fires rage in the west and more intense hurricanes batter the Gulf Coast, and our president shrugs his shoulders and says “It’s going to get cooler, you’ll see.” Which is why it’s a small miracle that I read something about climate change recently that actually made me feel good. All We Can Save, a new anthology (out September 22nd) co-edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, is a compilation of essays and...

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A documentary about climate activist Greta Thunberg and a shot film about a teenage Indigenous communities activist have joined the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) line-up.

Nathan Grossman’s I Am Greta chronicles the young Swede’s meteoric rise to public attention, while James Burns’s short film The Water Walker focuses on the work of 15-year-old Autumn Peltier, an Anishinaabe water activist.

Peltier will take part in a live conversation with author Naomi Klein that will be made free to international audiences. The date will be announced closer to the start of TIFF, which...

As America’s most famous activist filmmaker, Michael Moore has made his name with documentaries that prompt strong reactions from the right, from conservative pressure that led some theater chains to ban “Fahrenheit 9/11” to an entire film dedicated to explaining that “Michael Moore Hates America.” But now it’s prominent progressive activists and filmmakers — people who have been inspired by and have championed his work — who are calling on the filmmakers to retract and apologize for the latest project to bear his name, “Planet of the Humans.”

The documentary, directed and produced by “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Bowling for Columbine” collaborator Jeff Gibbs and executive produced by Moore, offers a blistering critique of the modern environmental movement and its promotion of wind, solar, and biomass energy. But some filmmakers, activists, and scientists are pushing back against what they say is a film that relies on cherry-picked facts, gotcha interviews, and...

If you’re looking for a little distraction from the news of the pandemic — something a little gossipy, but with a point at the end about how change happens in the world — this essay may soak up a few minutes.

I’ll tell the story chronologically, starting a couple of weeks ago on the eve of the 50th Earth Day. I’d already recorded my part for the Earth Day Live webcast, interviewing the great indigenous activists Joye Braum and Tara Houska about their pipeline battles. And then the news...

On a recent winter day, Jane Fonda pops out of a side room, looking every bit the Hollywood celebrity-activist that Trumpistas hate. The blond hair someone once described as needing its own agent is perfect, and her white blouse is stylish. She cradles her lapdog Tulea in her arms.

We are at the Wing, a women’s workplace in West Hollywood, for a talk on the climate crisis. It doesn’t seem like Tulea has a speaking role.

Instead, Fonda hands her to a friend and sits on a stool...

Los Angeles City Hall was packed with hundreds of climate change activists and several celebrities Friday morning. Though their backgrounds were diverse — speakers ranged from indigenous community leaders to actors Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix — they all shared a unifying message: “Our house is on fire” and the climate crisis must be confronted.

The participants congregated for the city’s first Fire Drill Friday, an ongoing environmental activism movement that was spearheaded by Fonda and Greenpeace last year. Fonda, a lifelong activist who supported the Civil Rights Movement and opposed the Vietnam and Iraq wars, has dedicated much of the last few months to the movement; she moved to Washington D.C. and started protesting outside the Capitol every Friday to urge elected officials to address the planet’s ongoing climate crisis.

Though filming duties for Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie” required Fonda to move back to Los Angeles, she...

Andrew Yang’s campaign is making the most of a high-profile celebrity endorsement: Dave Chappelle. He’s not only talking up Yang’s prospects, but he’s performing concerts for him in South Carolina and, the other day, even did a press briefing tied to one of the candidate’s campaign rallies.

“You hear people say stuff like ‘Make America Great Again.’ Well how about make America feel better again,” Chappelle told reporters. “And I think [Andrew Yang’s] platform handles a lot of the emotional content of what being an American is like.”

The perennial question – going back to the days when Will Rogers went out on the trail for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 – is whether it makes a difference. The perennial answer is that it depends on the celebrity and, more importantly, the candidate.

Twelve years ago, a group of economists did an extensive study of Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama...

Like the protagonist of his latest film, The Wedding Guest, Michael Winterbottom is a wanderer–cinematically, that is. There are few filmmakers in modern cinema who hop between genres quite like the British helmer. Consider just a few entries from his gobsmackingly lengthy filmography: a Thomas Hardy adaptation (Jude); a war film set in 1990s Sarajevo (Welcome to Sarajevo); a second Hardy adaptation shot in snowy Canada (The Claim); a future-set love story (Code 46); a sexually-explicit anthology centered around songs from the likes of Primal Scream and Franz Ferdinand (9 Songs); a documentary based on the work of Naomi Klein and another featuring Russell Brand (The Shock Doctrine and The Emperor’s New Clothes); and a tremendously violent and unsettling Jim Thompson adaptation (The Killer Inside Me).

That list does not even include his greatest works–24 Hour Party People, A Mighty Heart, The Trip, and its follow-ups. The Wedding Guest is,...

At around 1 p.m. Et in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday, protest puppeteer Elliot Crown twirled a paper mache planet over a bed of flames, playing a silent violin. Around him, a neon-dotted crowd gathered next to the Plaza Hotel to protest the collapse of life on Earth. Numbers soon swelled to around 300, a solid local turnout for the Extinction Rebellion’s first national day of action in the United States. A marching band began to play, and activist performance group Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir hopped around the perimeter of the crowd,...

Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.

Vivian Bang: The Third Industrial Revolution – Office of Jeremy Rifkin

Naomi Klein’s : No Is Not Enough / to resisting Trump’s Shock Politics

Alfonsina y el Mar: Song by Mercedes Sosa about an Argentine radical poet from 1920-1930’s who killed herself by the sea …

Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985 art show at the Hammer Museum. Blew my mind about the dense feminist heritage

Lavallee: On paper, Sophia appears to be an amalgamation of progressive discourses on how the artist can no longer be subjugated by cultural, identity and art community politics.…...

Nancy Schwartzman..

The Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc).s Impact stream, focused on media-making for social, environmental, and political change, has been confirmed.

This year, sessions will focus will consider the challenges faced by activist filmmakers in an increasingly fraught political environment. It will feature five sessions: Gender, Tech & Resistance; One Film to Save the World?; Impact Strategy Hack 1 & 2; and a screening of.Defiant Lives.

American filmmaker and creator of the White House .Apps Against Abuse. safety app 'Circle of 6', Nancy Schwartzman, will provide the Impact Keynote session: Gender, Tech & Resistance.

Known for her work exploring how youth culture, sexuality and justice intersect with technology, Schwartzman has worked as impact producer on documentaries such as The Invisible War and Girl Model, and is the director of xoxosms, The Line and the upcoming Bertha Foundation-supported Roll Red Roll..

Schwartzman will showcase the approaches she has developed to challenge notions of neutrality in technology,...

This article originally appeared on Extra Crispy.

If you thought that the idea of a Starbucks being on every corner in the world was a laughable exaggeration, guess again. Starbucks will become bigger than McDonald’s in the next few years, according to Mark Kalinowiski, an analyst at Nomura. “We believe that it is only a matter of time before Starbucks overtakes McDonald’s as the largest market cap restaurant stock, although likely not in 2017,” Kalinowski wrote in a message to investors. So if you can’t be bothered to cross the street to get a latte, just wait. A...

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Eva Orner's Chasing Asylum.

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival has unveiled its full 2016 program, featuring 31 feature films and 25 shorts.

The festival will open with the Australian premiere of Eva Orner's offshore-detention documentary Chasing Asylum, fresh off its Hot Docs international premiere.

Also featured is Michael Graversen's Dreaming of Denmark, which follows a teenager who has spent his adolescent years in Denmark after fleeing his native country of Afghanistan..

The festival will close with the Australian premiere of Sundance award-winner The Bad Kids, an immersive dive into America.s most pressing education problem: poverty..

Another highlight is documentary They Will Have to Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile, which follows various musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music in the region. The film features Damon Albarn (Blur), Brian Eno and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and the band Songhoy Blues.

Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea are in Paris this week to attend Pathway to Paris, which brings together musicians, artists, sustainability consultants and activists to discuss climate change solutions leading up to the Un climate change meeting. Gearing up before those events take place, the Atoms for Peace bandmates stopped by French TV show Le Grand Journal. The duo performed "Atoms For Peace" from Yorke's solo album, The Eraser.

The pair were also interviewed during the show, joined by author, filmmaker and social activist Naomi Klein.

★★☆☆☆ In Al Gore's 2006 sobering documentary An Inconvenient Truth the man who "used to be the next President of the United States" relied heavily on charts, infographics and statistics to shock viewers into a collective sense of responsibility when tackling global warming. In the wake of her best-selling book of the same name, Naomi Klein – along with husband and director, Avi – eyes a similar goal in a similar field with new documentary, This Changes Everything (2015).

This meant the creation of festival strands that explored diversity in the documentary form, championing in particular that fruitful zone between documentary and fiction. Recently, though, the festival’s programming has been responding as much to trends in content as form; and that “content” is invariably culled from the news pages. This year’s edition included the F:act Award for documentaries informed by investigative journalism; Reality: Check, a three-day strand of films and events considering the state of democracy in 2015; a program of politically charged films co-curated by the campaigning writer Naomi Klein, whose own doc about climate change, “This Changes Everything” (directed by Avi Lewis) featured at the festival; and "Borderline," a strand dealing with the refugee crisis in Europe. It’s no coincidence that last year the most successful film screened at Cph:dox – perhaps ever – was Laura Poitras’s “Citizenfour,” with a number of extra screenings...

"I've always kind of hated films about climate change." That's how Naomi Klein kicks off her husband's climate change documentary. But don't get her wrong — Klein, an esteemed writer on the subject, is no denier. She and partner Avi Klein are simply sick and tired of the status quo. With "This Changes Everything," a documentary by Lewis and a book by Klein, the duo has reshaped the narrative of climate change. They've dispensed with the alarmist rhetoric surrounding the debate; instead, they focus on a story of resilience, community and change. The result is galvanizing. Unlike other climate documentaries, Lewis' manages to avoid leaving the audience to feel helpless in the face of inevitable destruction. It chronicles the front lines of climate change social justice, bringing us into a movement bolstered by thousands of people around the world and affecting serious change. Indiewire spoke to Lewis and Klein about their unique process of.

Read More: Abramorama and FilmBuff to Give Climate Crisis Documentary 'This Changes Everything' Multi-Platform Release FilmBuff and Abramorama are have announced their plans for a global release for "This Changes Everything," directed by Avi Lewis. The documentary is based on the book of the same name, written by Naomi Klein. The release is now open exclusively on iTunes and is available in more than 80 countries. A series of screenings have also been scheduled around the country. The film has a global message to find a solution to the climate change crisis by mobilizing worldwide communities.  "The support from the global community for this film has been nothing short of inspiring from the outset," said Janet Brown, FilmBuff's CEO. "Since its release, the trailer has been translated by volunteers in 45 different languages, and the feature film has crowd sourced subtitles in multiple languages including Czech, Basque and Filipino. Interest is.

Anne Wivel’s Mand Falder will open the festival, which will screen 200 docs including 60 world premieres.

Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the programme for its 13th edition, which runs Nov 5-15.

The line-up features 200 documentaries including 60 world premieres, 18 European premieres and 14 international premieres.

Danish film Mand Falder, directed by Anne Wivel, will open the festival. The film centres around the artist Per Kirkeby and his recovery after suffering from a brain hemorrhage.

16 documentaries will compete in the main competition for the Dox:award, including Friedrich Moser’s journalistic docu-thriller A Good American about William Binney’s programme ‘Thinthread’ that could have prevented 9/11, but was cancelled by the Nsa, and Aslaug Holm’s Norwegian documentary Brodre, which was shot over 8 years and centres around two boys growing up.

Helena Trestikova’s Czech documentary Mallory about life at the bottom of Czech society also features in the competition, which was won last year by Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence.

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Naomi Klein and Olafur Eliasson will both curate programmes at this year’s festival.

This year’s Cph:dox festival (Nov 5-15) will put a special emphasis on the topic of climate change.

The decision is partially due to the proximity of the COP21 gathering – where 196 countries will get together to discuss the challenges of climate change - in Paris on November 30.

There will be two guest-curated programmes placing special emphasis on the topic.

The first will be overseen by Canadian journalist, author and filmmaker Naomi Klein, who is a renowned social commentator and is a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org, and her partner, the filmmaker Avi Lewis.

They have selected ten documentaries that all have a political focus, including classics such as Hour Of The Furnaces and Harlan County USA.

The second programme will be curated by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, who is noted for his installation The Weather Project...

Klein’s latest book, This Changes Everything, addresses apathy in the face of ecological catastrophe. Now, she’s made a movie – as it opens in New York, Klein discusses why we’re unable to act as disaster approaches

Naomi Klein – bestselling Canadian author and social activist, whose most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, was recently made into a movie by her film-maker husband Avi Lewis – wants to set the record straight. The documentary, like her book, opens with Klein confessing that she’s “always kind of hated films about climate change”.

A bold move for an author behind a film about climate change. Not even Chasing Ice? Or The 11th Hour? How about An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Oscar?

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On the heels of the Toronto world premiere of the environmental call to arms, the film’s director Avi Lewis and author of the book of the same name Naomi Klein have announced special screenings in 13 global cities from September 26.

Organisations including 350.org, Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth, Fossil Free Berlin, Fossil Free Amsterdam and Stop Skouries Gold Mine are partnering in the event with a goal to inspire people at grassroots level to take action in the fight for climate change.

All of the screenings – taking place in Berlin, Bergen, Oslo, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Manila, London, Dublin, Manchester, Bucharest, Stockholm, Thessaloniki and Amsterdam, where the film will be projected on a coal-fired power station – will be accompanied by panel discussions with environmentalists, anti-austerity activists and labour organisers, along with a Skype Q&A with Lewis and Klein. Questions will be taken via the twitter handle @thischanges and hashtag #thischangeseverything.

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This Changes Everything, the climate-change documentary that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this month, will screen September 26 in 13 cities around the world, with more in the works. 350.org and Greenpeace are among the organizations teaming to promote Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's film ahead of the U.N.’s COP21 climate meeting in December in Paris. Special screening cities of the docu — which presents portraits of seven communities on the front lines of both…...

Read More: Exclusive: Climate Change Doc 'This Changes Everything' Gets a Stylish Poster from Shepard Fairey  Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's documentary on climate change has just announced a global screening event to be hosted in 13 cities around the world on September 26, just a month before the film's exclusive iTunes release on October 20. These screenings serve as part of the Un's "COP21" climate meeting, which is set to convene later this year.  According to the official synopsis, "This Changes Everything" is an "epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better."  The film, directed by Lewis and inspired by Klein's book, boasts Alfonso Cuarón,...

Avi Lewis’s fine-looking film purports to break from environmental documentary convention. Instead, it delivers another characterless prophecy that’s unlikely to inspire

Avi Lewis’s film about climate change, based on Naomi Klein’s book of the same name, opens with a confession from the author: “I’ve always kind of hated films about climate change”. She lists their faults: they’re boring, they’re presumptive, they always, always include shots of polar bears.

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The third in what has been dubbed an “antiglobalization trilogy,” Naomi Klein’s latest book, This Changes Everything, strips away the niceties of middle-brow climate change activism. As Klein argues, promoting the type of meaningful change that will lead to the survival of the planet involves more than film festival reusable sippy cups and something considerably different than the pro-market solutions of green business consortiums. Indeed, Klein’s book is subtitled “Capitalism vs. The Climate,” and it directly blames the growth mantra of governments and economic markets for our rising temperatures. Furthermore, it intertwines the fight against global warming with the fight […]...

The third in what has been dubbed an “antiglobalization trilogy,” Naomi Klein’s latest book, This Changes Everything, strips away the niceties of middle-brow climate change activism. As Klein argues, promoting the type of meaningful change that will lead to the survival of the planet involves more than film festival reusable sippy cups and something considerably different than the pro-market solutions of green business consortiums. Indeed, Klein’s book is subtitled “Capitalism vs. The Climate,” and it directly blames the growth mantra of governments and economic markets for our rising temperatures. Furthermore, it intertwines the fight against global warming with the fight […]...

The Vancouver International Film Festival has announced its most anticipated films in the Gala and Special Presentation categories. The films selected represent a true showcase of international cinema, while highlighting homegrown talent in the world's largest showcase of Canadian films during the 34th annual festival running from September 24th to October 9th.

John Crowley's "Brooklyn" starts the festival off in the Opening Night Gala spot. Marc Abraham's "I Saw the Light" holds the Closing Night Gala position with a feature on the life of country star Hank Williams. The film was produced by Vancouver's Bron Studios. Canadian productions remain a crucial part of the festival, Philippe Falardeau's "My Internship in Canada" will open the Canadian Images program, while Patricia Rozema's "Into the Forest" will occupy the BC Spotlight Awards Gala spot.

In 2015, Vancouver audiences will be exposed to 355 films from 70 countries. With 32 World Premieres, 33 North American Premieres and 53 Canadian Premieres, this year's festival promises to be a feast for Canadian film lovers.

The full line-up and ticket are available at viff.org. Here are some highlights:

Opening Gala "Brooklyn" (John Crowley, U.K/Ireland/Canada)

Lured from Ireland by the American Dream, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) instead lands in a hardscrabble reality of cramped boarding houses and grungy dancehalls. As homesickness grips her, she's also torn between two admirers (Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen). With Nick Hornby scripting, John Crowley crafts a stirring 50s-era immigration tale that also serves as an exhilarating profile of female empowerment.

Closing Gala "I Saw the Light" (Marc Abraham,USA) Having played gods and monsters with aplomb, Tom Hiddleston takes centre stage as country music legend/renegade Hank Williams. In turns as rambunctious as a barn dance and as reflective as a ballad, Marc Abraham's film chronicles Williams' rapid ascent to stardom and the tragedy of a career cut short by substance abuse. Laid to rest at only 29, Williams left behind a truly remarkable body of work. Handling the singing chores himself, Hiddleston does the man—and his music—proud.

Canadian Images Opening Film My Internship in Canada (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)

Philippe Falardeau ("Monsieur Lazhar") returns with an energetic, laugh-out-loud political comedy that couldn't be more timely. Steve Guibord (Patrick Huard, brilliant) is an independent Quebec MP traveling to his northern riding with a new Haitian intern. Soon after finding themselves caught in the crossfire of activists, miners, truckers, politicians and aboriginal groups, it turns out that Guibord somehow holds the decisive vote in a national debate that will decide whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East! The fabulous Suzanne Clément co-stars.

BC Spotlight Awards Gala "Into the Forest" (Patricia Rozema, Canada)

The BC coastal forest is in all its glory as a father and his two daughters drive off to their remote and idyllic getaway home. They have little sense at first of the growing apocalypse that they are leaving in their wake. It will come to them. Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie and Michael Eklund star in this Patricia Rozema-directed adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel.

Spotlight Gala "Beeba Boys" (Deepa Mehta, Canada/India)

Mix propulsive bhangra beats, blazing Ak-47s, bespoke suits, solicitous mothers and copious cocaine, and you have the heady, volatile cocktail that is Deepa Mehta's latest film, an explosive clash of culture and crime. Jeet Johar (Indian star Randeep Hooda) and his young, charismatic Sikh crew vie to take over the Vancouver drug and arms trade in this all-out action/drama. Blood is spilled, heads are cracked, hearts are broken and family bonds are pushed to the brink.

Special Presentations "Arabian Nights" ("Miguel Gomes," Portugal)

Miguel Gomes' ("Tabu," "Our Beloved Month of August") astonishing three-volume, six-hour epic draws inspiration from the tales of Scheherazade (here played by Crista Alfaiate) and once again uses a fascinating combination of reality and fiction to comment on Portugal's past, present and future.

"Dheepan" (Jacques Audiard, France)

Jacques Audiard's ("A Prophet," "Rust and Bone") latest dramatic inquiry into life on society's margins is an alternately gripping and tender love story about the eponymous former Tamil fighter (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) and his improvised family, who exchange war in Sri Lanka for violence of another kind in Paris.

"High-Rise" (Ben Wheatley, U.K)

Ben Wheatley's bold adaptation of Jg Ballard's novel takes no prisoners. This scorching satire on class, hedonism and depravity in an imploding luxury apartment building is an even more apocalyptic class polemic than "Snowpiercer". Throw in exquisitely unsettling turns from Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, a string quartet cover of Abba's 1975 hit "Sos," an orgy or two and spice with cannibalism, and you have a tour de force of astonishing architectural ambition.

"Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words" (Stig Björkman, Sweden ), Canadian Premiere

Casablanca , Notorious, Voyage to Italy... That Ingrid Bergman, three-time Oscar winner, is one of filmdom's all-time greats is inarguable. Narrated by Swedish (and now Hollywood) star Alicia Vikander, Stig Björkman's intimate exploration of Bergman's personal and professional life benefits immensely from the cooperation of Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini, who allowed him access to never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews. The result is a rich and multicolored portrait of this extraordinary human being—in her own words.

"Louder Than Bombs" (Joachim Trier, U.S.A/France)

When a war photographer (Isabelle Huppert) dies on assignment, her husband (Gabriel Byrne) struggles to mount a retrospective while dealing with his grieving sons (Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid) and her combative colleague (David Strathairn). Joachim Trier ("Oslo, 31st August") poses tough questions about family, marital responsibility and balancing one's calling and kin.

"Room" (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland, Canada, U.K)

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and based on the best-selling Man Booker Prize-nominated novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, this is the story of five-year old Jack, who lives in an 11-by-11-foot room with his mother. Since it's all he's ever known, Jack believes that only "Room" and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are real. Then reality intrudes and Jack's life is turned on its head... A remarkable and disturbing work.

"A Tale of Three Cities" (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong/China)

A rousingly entertaining movie romance, this historical drama tells the deeply moving story of kung fu superstar Jackie Chan's parents. Both grew up in China's tumultuous 20th century, swept by war, revolution and resistance. When charismatic customs officer Fang (Lau Ching-wan) meets impoverished young widow Chen (Tang Wei), an unbreakable bond is forged. Together, their love endures through extraordinary adventures, as they head towards a future in Hong Kong.

"This Changes Everything" (Avi Lewis, Canada)

Naomi Klein ("Shock Doctrine") has risen to prominence around the world as one of Canada's most forceful and relevant public intellectuals. Her cogent call to direct action has inspired youth, helped chart roadmaps for social progressives and environmentalists, and yet worried those who believe that her critique of capitalism plays into the hands of right wingers who think climate change is a socialist plot. Join us, Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis for this special presentation of "This Changes Everything."

"Youth" (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/Switzerland/U.K)

Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz anchor Paolo Sorrentino's gorgeous follow-up to The Great Beauty. Fred (Caine), a retired composer, and friend Mick (Keitel), a film director, are sojourning in a stunning Swiss alpine spa. Surrounded by bodies old and young, supple and sagging, they reconsider their pasts–while Sorrentino choreographs the action with exquisite control.

Canadian Images Special Presentations "Hyena Road" (Paul Gross, Canada)

In Paul Gross' film, ripped from the headlines, a sniper, who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as human, becomes implicated in the life of one of them. An intelligence officer, who has never contemplated killing, becomes the engine of a plot to kill. A legendary Mujahideen warrior, who had put war behind him, is now deeply involved. Three different men, three different worlds, three different conflicts, yet all stand at the intersection of modern warfare.

"Remember" (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

Atom Egoyan returns with a completely original take on the darkest chapter of horror in the last century. Christopher Plummer plays a man who's looking for the person who might be responsible for wiping out his family, as he strains to seize the evanescent memories of long-ago brutality. The all-star cast includes Henry Czerny, Martin Landau and Bruno Ganz. Benjamin August's screenplay will keep you guessing until the very end.