Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Mark Achbar
Director
Peter Wintonick
Director
Casts & Crew
Noam Chomsky
Himself
Mark Achbar
Himself - Interviewer
Edward S. Herman
Himself
William F. Buckley
Himself (uncredited)
Peter Jennings
Himself (uncredited)
Bill Moyers
Himself (uncredited)
Tom Wolfe
Himself (uncredited)
Also Directed by Mark Achbar
No plot details available.
Plot details not available.
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
Plot details not available.
Plot details not available.
Plot details not available.
When Linda, an outspoken lesbian psychotherapist, decided that George, a bulldozer-driving transsexual, was the woman for her, Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage was born. Directed and produced by Vancouver-based Mark Achbar, the video was shot over a two-year period by the subjects and covers what the media touted as the first lesbian marriage in Canadian history, a graphic sex change operation, and the daily lives and most intimate moments of a relationship generally hidden behind the iron curtain of societal taboo.
Also Directed by Peter Wintonick
No plot details available.
Plot details not available.
Plot details not available.
Plot details not available.
The impact of consumer video equipment on international political activism efforts.
Plot details not available.
A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
