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Election reform protestor

Our partnership with Picture Houses Cinemas to bring outstanding documentary to the big screen has begun. Upcoming films include:

Dalai Lama documentary, “The Unwinking Gaze”.

9/11 blockbuster “Zero”, which stars Nobel prize-winner Dario Fo and intellectual heavyweight, Gore Vidal

“How Ohio Pulled it Off,” a documentary focusing on the huge levels of election fraud in the 2004 presidential election and how it can happen again in 2008.

Keep an eye out here, in The Independent newspaper and on The Picture Houses website for listings.

Also have a look at the official websites for ‘How Ohio Pulled It Off’, the Dalai Lama and ‘Zero’.

Children of prostitutes in Calcutta

Some new titles are coming your way over the next few weeks:

Born Into Brothels: The 2005 Oscar-winning documentary from Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman. This amazing film chronicles the lives of children of prostitutes in Calcutta as they are taught photography as a way of expressing their experiences.

Waco: Rules of Engagement: Oscar-nominated film by William Gazecki. An expose on the draconian tactics utilized by the FBI to bring the Branch Davidian sect to heel. Utilizing footage and recordings from both sides of the standoff, the story is told of how government interference with an unconventional congregation ended in tragedy on April 19, 1993.

The Weather Underground: Oscar-nominated 2004. A terrific account of the radicalisation of a group of young American’s who saw violence as the only means to change their government’s policies. Riveting and revealing; The Weather Underground contextualises a period in American history dominated by the Vietnam war against the alienation of many of the popluace by the bellicose ideology of successive administrations.

Born Into Brothels and The Weather Undeground have both got good informative pages on Wikipedia, so go and have a look. There is also a lot of information about the Waco Siege on Wikipedia.

Voters in Ohio during the 2004 elections

With Hilary and Obama kicking lumps out of each other, a Democratic President is no longer a certainty. But, with voting irregularities in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, was it ever going to be a shoe-in?

June will see the joiningthedots.tv release of How Ohio Pulled it Off, a documentary from Ohio Filmmakers LLC, which catalogues serious election fraud in Ohio and casts a dark shadow over the 2008 race for the most powerful seat on the planet. Raising serious doubts over the legitamicy of the electronic voting machines and the way in which black and poorer voters are marginalised from the democratic process this eye-opening documentary could change the way you think about the “greatest democracy on earth.”