#WhileWeWatch OWS documentary film premiering January 11th 2012

#WhileWeWatch is the gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution. Citizens came together at Zuccotti Park with energy, intelligence and guts to impassion their message, "We are the 99%."

Photo by Paul Talbot

#WhileWeWatch is the gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution. Citizens came together at Zuccotti Park with energy, intelligence and guts to impassion their message, "We are the 99%."

#WhileWeWatch discovers the #OWS media team who had no fear of a critical city government, big corporations, hostile police, or a lagging main stream media to tell their story.
 
Through rain, snow, grueling days, sleeping on concrete; they pumped out exhilarating ideas to the world. Fueled with little money, they relied on the power of Twitter, texting, Wi-Fi, posters, Tumblr, live streams, YouTube, Facebook, dramatic marches, drumbeats and chants.
 
We witness a new dawn with the power of social media.
 
#WhileWeWatch - Director's Note
 
Zuccotti Park was loud, dirty, wet, cold and exhilaratingly alive with passion and energy. Intelligence, imagination, information and raw emotion ruled every second!

I observed the birth of a line that will go down in history:

"We are the 99%."
 
The people in this film are genuinely decent. They all are immensely bright. They are kind, tough and loaded with the belief, this is what being an American citizen is about



 
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
IN PERSON
Kevin Breslin, Director, Filmmaker
Alan Capper, President, The Foreign Press Association
Jesse LaGreca, Writer, The Daily Kos, Journalist
Priscilla Grim, Occupy Wall St Journal, Journalist
Tim Pool, TimCast.tv, Livestream Journalist
 
Moderator: Pete Fornatale, New York DJ and Author
6:00 pm Screening and Discussion; 7:30 pm Reception
 
The Occupy Wall Street movement has generated a whole new brand of interactive, participatory media, most notably livestreaming news from Zuccotti Park to the world. Kevin Breslin’s riveting documentary captures this media revolution at its conception, showing how cellphones affixed to laptops can create global social change. We witness the OWS media team taking on city government, big corporations, and police to get their vital message out. As director Breslin notes “Zuccotti Park was loud, dirty, wet, cold and exhilaratingly alive with passion and energy. Intelligence, imagination, information and raw motion ruled every second!” Breslin’s film is a transfixing testament to that insurgent spirit. Key members of the OWS media team will speak after the screening.

A limited number of free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
 
Please reserve at NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
 
Please reserve at publicprogams@paleycenter.org

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Occupy the URL

Enter in any URL and watch as the website gets occupied:  http://occupytheurl.com

The occupation of Zuccotti continues with the Augmented Reality project

The AR project: http://markskwarek.com

Pedro Reyes: Baby Marx and Smith at OWS

Baby Marx at Occupy Wall Street from Pedro Reyes on Vimeo.

Karl Marx and Adam Smith bump into each other at the Occupy Wall Street in Liberty Plaza. Marx sees in the current economic crisis the self-destruction of capitalism that he predicted 200 years ago, an opportunity to revive socialism. Smith sees in it a different opportunity… Inside the precarious tents, the resistance goes on, in a place that the privileged few have fled in a golden parachute.

For more information on Pedro Reyes's Baby Marx project visit: http://www.blog.pedroreyes.net/?tag=baby-marx

A New Day Begins At Occupy Wall Street

8mm film by Claire Kelley

This Super 8 film was shot a half hour after police confiscated generators at Liberty Plaza and 24 hours before a snowstorm hit New York.

I showed it at the Detours film festival in Greece a few weeks ago
(http://www.festivaldetours.org/).

Claire