[Peace-discuss] should we bring new Oliver Stone doc re: South America to C-U?

[Robert Naiman]

At Stuart's suggestion, I posted a note on the Art's Facebook page.

I encourage everyone to pile in:

http://www.facebook.com/TheArtTheater?v=wall


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Excellent!  Let's do it!
>
>
> Ricky
>
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/8/10, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] should we bring new Oliver Stone doc re: South
> America to C-U?
> To: "Robert Naiman" <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
>
> Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:41 PM
>
> Ooh, this sounds cool.
>
> Haven't tried advocating any films with the new owner,
> but have chatted with him several times.   He seems like the
> type of person who might well take this on.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:13:38PM -0300, Robert Naiman wrote:
> > As I imagine some of you are aware, Oliver Stone has a new documentary
> > out about South America called "South of the Border." It's a series of
> > interviews with progressive South American leaders, mixed with some
> > historical background and interviews with a few analysts. Chavez,
> > Morales, Correa, Lula, Fernandez, Lugo. If you've seen the Irish
> > documentary about Venezuela, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,"
> > you'll recognize some of the footage and ideas.
> >
> > Friend of C-U Mark Weisbrot is very involved with this project - he
> > wrote the original script and is currently touring with Oliver to
> > promote the film.
> >
> > The film is in commercial distribution. I believe that there is going
> > to be a Chicago screening in the next few months. We could try to set
> > up a C-U screening, and if we manage to time it right, I think we
> > could get Mark to come down and answer questions after the film.
> >
> > So my query is:
> >
> > - has anyone dealt with the Art management on a project like this
> > since they last switched hands? my experience was that the other guy
> > was very friendly to projects like this.
> >
> > - if not the Art, are there other alternatives? The Virginia?
> >
> > - could we get a bunch of people to show up?
> >
> > The trailer is here:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/southoftheborderdoc
> >
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