Presents

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY IN AMERICAN JOURNALISM

A film by Jean-Philippe Tremblay

R/T: 93 min./Cert TBC / Release Date: TBC

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2012 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
2012 Hot Docs Canadian Intl. Documentary Festival
2012 Sheffield Doc/Fest
2012 Vancouver International Film Festival
2012 Bergen International Film Festival
2012 Canberra International Film Festival
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 SYNOPSIS

Shadows of Libertyrevealsthe extraordinary truth behind thenewsmedia:

censorship,coverupsandcorporatecontrol.

Filmmaker JeanPhilippe Tremblay takes an intrepid journey through the darker

corridors of the American media landscape, where global conglomerates call the
shots.Fordecades,theiroverwhelminginfluencehasdistortednewsjournalismand
compromiseditsvalues.

In highly revealing stories, renowned journalists, activists and academics give

insider accounts of a broken media system. Controversial newsreportsare
suppressed, people are censored for speaking out, and lives are shattered as the
arenaforpublicexpressionisturnedintoaprivateprofitzone.

Tracing the story of media manipulation through the years, Shadows of Liberty
posesacrucialquestion:whyhaveweletahandfulofpowerfulcorporationswrite
the news?We're left in no doubt media reform is urgent and freedom of the
pressisfundamental.

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The media conglomerates are not the only "industry" whose owners have
becomemonopolisticintheAmericaneconomy.Butmediaproductsareunique
inonevitalrespect.Theydonotmanufacturenutsandbolts:theymanufacture
asocialandpoliticalworld.

BenBagdikian,TheNewMediaMonopoly

In2005,themembersofDOCFACTORYreadBenBagdikiansgroundbreakingwork,
The New Media Monopoly, and were inspired to document todays disintegrating
freedoms within the U.S. media. The overwhelming collective power of the
corporatemediamonopolyraisesthemosttroublingquestionsaboutdemocracy.

Thesubjectremainscrucialnotonlyforthestateofthemediaitself,butitiscritical
forallissuesfacingtheU.S.andtheworldtoday.Ultimately,themediaistheplace
wherewelearnabouttheworld.

Since the 1980s, government deregulation favouring privatization over public

welfarehasbeentheoverwhelmingrealityintheUnitedStates.Asaresult,media
ownership rules have been amended, giving extraordinary power to the massive
media conglomerates. Now, more than ever before, media ownership rules are
underseverescrutinyfromthepublic,andmillionsofpeoplehaveprotestedagainst
morederegulationformediaconglomerates.

The journey of making Shadows Of Liberty began in 2007, when the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) held Media Ownership Hearings across the
UnitedStates.Itwasanopportunityforpeopletoexpresshowtheyfeltabouttheir
media.Thousandsattendedandspokeabouthowthemediamonopolycrisiswasat
thecoreoftodaysmosttroublingissues.Peoplewereoutragedaboutthecorporate
control producing narrow content, misrepresentations, and lies. The issues
surrounding the corporate media monopoly directly address the problems within
oursociety.

We hopethat this work will enlighteneven more people towardsthe dangersand

injustices from the corporate media monopoly. This film was made to inspire
awareness,change,tosupportindependentmedia,andhelppromoteafreeInternet.
ThefilmisdedicatedtoBenBagdikianandhisoutstandinglifetimeachievementin
journalism,aswellasjournalistseverywherewhofollowhislegacy.

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 DIRECTORSSTATEMENT



This film attempts to present how a handful of corporations have come to control
most of the information in the United States, creating a media monopoly that
manipulates our political, economical, and social world. Medias extraordinary
influenceandpowerintheworldforcesustoaskourselvesseriousquestionsabout
theworldwelivein.

Throughthestoriesofjournalistsrevealingtruthsaboutoursociety,welearnabout
howthemediamonopolyoperatesandaffectsoursociety.Thisfilmisdedicatedto
these journalists, heroes of our time, who give their lives and freedoms for our
information.Presentingthesevoicesthatarenotheardorgivenaplatformiswhat
ShadowsofLibertyisabout.

Itisveryimportanttothisprojecttopresentnewseventsfromanotherperspective,
that of the independent journalist. Their work highlights the injustices of
corporations and governments. Their stories illustrate how differently the
mainstreammediapresentsnewseventsandtheirfarreachingeffectsonsociety.

My hope is for more people to get a sense of how the corporate control of
information in our democracy came to be. People everywhere respond and
demonstrateagainstinjustices,yettheirvoicesareeithernotreportedortakeninto
account.Thisfilmattemptstoinspirechangeandaccountabilitybychampioningthe
ideaofanindependentmediawheretruthandintegrityarethenorm,andnotthe
exception.

Unjust wars are being fought, governments are imposing radical power, and the
imbalancebetweenthecorporateandpublicwelfareisgreaterthanever.Themedia
monopoly and its role in our democracy is one of the most important and topical
issuesofourtime.

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 MEDIAMONOPOLYQUOTESINCLUDED

When men yield up the exclusive privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty
quitsthehorizon.
ThomasPaine

Themedia'sthemostpowerfulentityonearth.Theyhavethepowertomakethe
innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they
controlthemindsofthemasses.
MalcolmX



TheUnitedStatesisunusualamongtheindustrialdemocraciesintherigidityofthe
systemofideologicalcontrol;indoctrination,wemightsay,exercisedthroughthe
massmedia.
NoamChomsky



Wehavetodomorethankeepmediagiantsfromgrowinglarger;they'realready
toobig.Weneedanewsetofrulesthatwillbreakthesehugecompaniestopieces.

TedTurner



AnydictatorwouldadmiretheuniformityandobedienceoftheU.S.media.

NoamChomsky



The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. Theres really five
companiesthatcontrol90percentofwhatweread,seeandhear.Itsnothealthy.

TedTurner




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 INTERVIEWSUBJECTS
(inorderofappearance)

AmyGoodman

HostofDemocracyNow!,Author&Journalist

Americanprogressivebroadcast journalist,syndicated columnist,investigative

reporterandauthor.GoodmanisthehostofDemocracyNow!,anindependentglobal
newsprogrambroadcastdailyonradio,televisionandtheInternet.DemocracyNow!
beganin1996,itairshundredsofstationsworldwidewithover20millionfollowers
in 2011 alone. Democracy Now! has been called the most significant progressive
newsinstitution.

JanineJackson

ProgramDirector,Fairness&AccuracyinReporting

Janine Jackson is Fairness and Accuracy in Reportings program director and a

frequentcontributortoFAIR'smagazine,Extra!.ShecoeditedTheFAIRReader:An
Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Westview Press). She cohosts and
produces FAIR's syndicated radio show Counter Spin, a weekly program of media
criticismairingonmorethan150stationsaroundthecountry.

DeepaKumar

MediaStudiesProfessor

AssociateProfessorofJournalismandMediaStudiesattheRutgersUniversity,New
Jersey, USA. She is the author of the bookOutside the Box:CorporateMedia,
Globalization,andtheUPSStrike.

JulianAssange

EditorinChief,WikiLeaks

Australian publisher, journalist, media andInternet entrepreneur, media critic,

writer, computer programmer andpolitical activist. He is theeditorinchiefand
founder ofWikiLeaks, a media website which publishes information
fromwhistleblowers. The site acts as a conduit for worldwidenews leaks, with a
statedpurposeofcreatingopengovernance.
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RobertMcChesney

CommunicationsProfessor,Author&Journalist

American professor at theUniversity of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He is the

Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication. He is the co
founderofFreePress,anationalmediareformorganization.McChesneyalsohosts
theMedia Matters, a weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon onWILL
AMradio;itisthetopratedprograminitstimeslotintheChampaignUrbanaarea.
He is the author of many works, and is among the most widely read and honored
communicationscholarsintheworldtoday.

DannyGlover

Actor&Director

Americanactor,filmdirector,andpoliticalactivist.Gloveriswellknownforhisroles
inTheColorPurple,Predator2,Witness,andintheLethalWeaponfilmfranchise,as
wellasrolesinmanyothermovies,televisionprograms,andtheatricalproductions.
GlovertrainedwithJeanSheltonattheSheltonActorsLabinSanFranciscoandco
founded the Robey Theatre Company in honor of the actor, radical activist, and
concertsingerPaulRobeson.Heisanactivesupporterofvarioushumanitarianand
political causes. While attending San Francisco State University, he collaborated in
the longest student walkout in U.S. history, to establish a Department of Black
Studies.

NormanSolomon

Journalist,InstituteforPublicAccuracyFounder

Americanjournalist,media critic, antiwar activist, and current candidate for

theUnited States House of Representatives. Solomon is a longtime associate of
themedia watchgroup Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. In 1997 he founded
theInstitute for Public Accuracy, which works to provide alternative sources for
journalists, and served as its executive director until 2010. Solomon's weekly
column, "Media Beat", was in national syndication from 19922009.He is a
progressiveauthorandactivistandisintheraceforCongressfor2012.

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RobertaBaskin

ChiefCorrespondent,CBSNews199297

BaskinbeganhercareerasaninvestigativereporterinChicagoandWashingtonD.C.
ShehasservedastheExecutiveDirectoroftheCentreforPublicIntegritythesenior
WashingtoncorrespondentforNOWwithBillMoyers,seniorinvestigativeproducer
for the ABC newsmagazine20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS
newsmagazine48Hours,andcontributedspecialreportstotheCBSEveningNews.
Baskinhaswonmorethan75journalismprizes.

ThuyenNguyen

VietnamLaborWatchFounder

ThuyenisasuccessfulbusinessentrepreneurwhofoundedVietnamLaborWatch,a
groupdedicatedonregulatingfairbusinesspracticesinVietnam.

BrianHealy

Producer,CBSNews19722010

Brian earned his M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in
1968. He first joined the CBS Evening News in 1972, and served in the London
bureau as a field producer from 1976 to 1979. Healy has held positions as senior
producer and producer for such broadcasts as the CBS Early Show, CBS Evening
News,EyetoEyewithConnieChung,andCBSNewsSundayMorning.Healyworked
with the legendary Ed Bradley, serving as his producer on the floor of the
Democratic and Republican National Conventions. He is the winner of several
nationalEmmyAwards.

JohnNichols

Author&Journalist,TheNationMagazine

Nichols is a political correspondent for The Nation magazine. He is a contributing

writerforTheProgressiveandInTheseTimesandtheassociateeditoroftheCapital
Times,thedailynewspaperinMadison,Wisconsin.Hisarticleshaveappearedinthe
NewYorkTimes,ChicagoTribuneanddozensofothernewspapers.Alongwithfellow
authorRobertMcChesney,NicholscofoundedthemediareformgroupFreePress.
Americanjournalist,andapioneeringpoliticalblogger,Nicholshasauthoredorco
authoredmanybooks.

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KristinaBorjesson

Journalist,ProducerCBS199497

Kristinahasbeenanindependentproducerandwriterformorethantwentyyears.
SheproducesandcohostsExpertWitnessradioshowonWBAIinNewYorkCity.
She produced for CNNs News Stand Magazine, she won an Emmy and a Murrow
award, and has been nominated for many others, including for The Last
Revolutionary, a biography about Fidel Castro. She edited an award winning
collectionofessays,IntotheBuzzsaw:LeadingJournalistsExposetheMythofaFree
Press(2002).

KellyOMeara

CongressionalAide,NewYork198197

A former House chief of staff, Kelly is a tough reporter because of her

uncompromisingandrelentlessdiggingforthefacts.Asavvycongressionalwatcher
with long time Washington political experience, she tracked and plotted censured
radar charts involving TWA Flight 800 that the National Transportation Safety
Board said didn't exist. Her investigative reports on child vaccines have generated
congressionalhearings,ashasherworkonmedicatingchildrenwithmindaltering
drugs.Kellyisamemberofthecongressionalpressgalleriesandafrequentgueston
nationaltalkradioandoftencanbeseenonthenationaltelevisiontalkshows.

PhilipWeiss

Journalist,NewYorkObserver19962006

Weiss is an Americanjournalistwho coeditsMondoweiss, a news website devoted

to covering American foreign policy in theMiddle East, chiefly from aprogressive
Jewish perspective.He is the authorofCockaDoodleDoo(1996),AmericanTaboo:
A Murder In The Peace Corps(2004), and coedited the 2011 bookThe Goldstone
Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict. Weiss has
written for theNew York Times Magazine,Esquire,Harper's Magazine, and theNew
YorkObserver.

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DanRather

NewsAnchorCBS19812005

Rather began his journalism career in 1950 as an Associated Press reporter in

Huntsville, Texas. Later, he was a reporter for United Press (19501958), several
Texas radio stations, and the Houston Chronicle (19541955).Rather was the first
network television journalist to report that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was
assassinatedinDallas.AfterservingasaforeigncorrespondentforCBSinLondonin
1965 and Vietnam in 1966, he served his second tenure as White House
correspondentduringtheRichardNixonpresidency.Aschiefcorrespondentforthe
documentary series CBS Reports, he later became a correspondent of 60 Minutes.
Then succeeded Walter Cronkite as anchor and Managing Editor of CBS Evening
News for 24 years. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news
magazineDanRatherReportsonthecablechannelHDNet.

DavidSimon

Author&Journalist,CreatorofTheWire

Americanauthor,journalist,andawriter/produceroftelevisionseries.Heworked
fortheBaltimoreSunCityDeskfortwelveyears.HewroteHomicide:AYearonthe
Killing Streetsand cowroteThe Corner: A Year in the Life of an InnerCity
NeighborhoodwithEdBurns.HeisthecreatoroftheHBOtelevisionseriesTheWire,
forwhichheservedasexecutiveproducer,headwriter,andshowrunnerforallfive
seasons.Hewasselectedasoneofthe2010MacArthurFellowsandnamedanUtne
Readervisionaryin2011.SimonalsococreatedtheHBOseriesTreme.

RobertParry

Journalist,ConsortiumNews,AssociatedPress197487

Americaninvestigative journalist. He was awarded theGeorge Polk Awardfor

National Reporting in 1984 for his work with theAssociated Presson theIran
ContrastoryanduncoveredOliverNorth'sinvolvementinitasaWashingtonbased
correspondent forNewsweek. In 1995, he establishedConsortium Newsas an
onlineezinededicatedtoinvestigativejournalism.Parryhaswrittenseveralbooks,
includingLost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth."(1999) and
Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq(2004). From
2000to2004,healsoworkedforthefinancialwireserviceBloomberg.

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CharlesBowden

Author&Journalist

Charles is an awardwinning journalist, essayist, author of Murder City: Ciudad

JurezandtheGlobalEconomysNewKillingFields,andisbasedinLasCruces,New
Mexico. He is a former writer for theTucson Citizenand often writes about the
American Southwest, and drug wars. He is a contributing editor ofGQandMother
Jones magazine, and writes for other periodicals includingHarper's Magazine, New
YorkTimesBookReview,Esquire,andAperture.Heisthewinnerofthe1996Lannan
LiteraryAwardforNonfiction,anda2010awardfromUnitedStatesArtists.

PeterKornbluh

SeniorAnalyst,NationalSecurityArchives

PeterisdirectoroftheNationalSecurityArchive'sChileDocumentationandofthe
CubaDocumentationProjects.Heplayedalargeroleinthecampaigntodeclassify
governmentdocumentsrelatingtothehistoryoftheU.S.Government'ssupportfor
thePinochetdictatorship.He is the author of several books, and he won a
1990JamesAronsonAwardhonourablementionforwritinginTheNewYorker.

DickGregory

Comedian&Author

Americancomedian,socialactivist,socialcritic,writer,andentrepreneur.Gregoryis
an influentialAmericancomic who has used his performance skills to convey his
politicalmessageoncivilrights,aswellasmanyothersocialcausesintheUSand
around the world. Gregory is number 82 on Comedy Central's list of the 100
GreatestStandupsofalltimeandhashisownstarontheSt.LouisWalkofFame.

SusanPaterno

SeniorContributingWriter,AmericanJournalismReview

Susan is director of the journalism program at Chapman University, is an award

winning journalist with more than 20 years experience as a reporter, writer and
columnist. A senior writer for American Journalism Review, Professor Paterno won
the National Press Club's 2006 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. She has
written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report,
Parentingandmanyotherpublications.Shehascollaboratedonahalfdozenbooks,
includingTheNewswritersHandbookandTalkStraight,ListenCarefully:TheArtof

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InterviewingwithM.L.Stein,theretiredchairofNewYorkUniversity'sDepartment
ofJournalismandMassCommunications.

KurtWebb

GaryWebbsbrother

KurtWebbisabusinessmanworkingintheBayareainNorthernCalifornia.Heis
the brother of Gary Webb, an investigative reporter who focused on government
andprivatesectorcorruptionandwonmorethan30journalismawards.In1990he
won a Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for a series of stories on the
collapseoftheCypressStreetViaductduringnorthernCalifornia's1989earthquake.
He also received the 1997 Media Hero Award from the Institute for Alternative
Journalismandin1996wasnamedJournalistoftheYearbytheBayAreaSocietyof
Professional Journalists. Gary Webb was best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance"
series of articles written for theSan Jose Mercury Newsand later published as a
book.

JeffCohen

FounderofF.A.I.R.,Author&Journalist

Journalist, media critic, professor, and the founder of Fairness & Accuracy In
Reporting(FAIR). He was formerly a lawyer for theACLUand authored or co
authoredfivebooksthatfocusonmediabias.HewasaregularcommentatorforFox
NewsChannel'sFoxNewsWatch,forMSNBCandCNN,andappearsintheOutfoxed
documentaryfilm.

SilviaRivera

ManagingDirector,Vocalo

Silviaisanauthoritativevoiceonissuesofleadershipanddiversityinpublicmedia.
She is the product of youthmedia training, having started her career in 1998 at
Radio Arte (WRTEFM), a youthdriven Latino public radio station. She became
host/music&publicaffairsproducer,CommunityRelationsDirector,AssistantGM
of Marketing & Development, and ultimately General Manager (20062009). Silvia
received the Founder's Award in 2007 by the Chicago Foundation for Women
(CFW).SheisafoundingmemberandBoardPresidentoftheLatinoPublicRadio
Consortium.

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ChrisHedges

ForeignCorrespondent,TheNewYorkTimes19902005

Journalist,author,and war correspondent specializing in AmericanandMiddle

Easternpolitics and societies. His most recent book isThe World As It Is(2011).
Hedges is also known as the bestselling author ofWar Is a Force That Gives Us
Meaning(2002),whichwasafinalistfortheNationalBookCriticsCircleAwardfor
Nonfiction. Chris is currently a senior fellow atThe Nation InstituteinNew York
City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent inCentral America,
theMiddle East,Africaand theBalkans. He has reported from more than fifty
countries, and has worked forThe Christian Science Monitor, National Public
Radio,The Dallas Morning News, andThe New York Times, where he was a foreign
correspondentforfifteenyears(19902005).

JonathanLanday

NationalSecurityCorrespondent,KnightRidder

Jonathan is senior national security and intelligence correspondent for McClatchy

Newspapers, has written about foreign affairs and U.S. defence, intelligence and
foreignpoliciesformorethan25years.Hewasacorecipientofthe2003Raymond
Clapper Memorial Award for disclosing the exaggerated intelligence to justify the
invasion of Iraq. In 2005, he won a National Headliners Award, an Award of
DistinctionfromtheMedillSchoolofJournalism,andGeorgetownUniversitys2007
WeintalPrizeforDiplomaticReportingSpecialCitation.Hewasacorecipientofthe
NationalPressClubs2011EdwardM.HoodAwardforDiplomaticCorrespondence
foraninvestigativeseriesoncontractingcorruptioninAfghanistan.

BobBaer

MiddleEastFieldOfficer,CIA197697

BaerwasconsideredperhapsthebestonthegroundfieldofficerintheMiddleEast.
During his twentyone years with the CIA, Baer performed field assignments in
SouthAsiaandtheMiddleEast.Duringthemid1990s,BaerwassenttoIraq,then
quittheAgencyin1997andreceivedtheCIA'sCareerIntelligenceMedalonMarch
11,1998.Baer'sbooksSeeNoEvilandSleepingwiththeDevilwerethebasisforthe
2005 Academy Awardwinning Warner Brothers motion picture Syriana. He is
currentlyTIME.com'sintelligencecolumnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair,The
WallStreetJournal,andTheWashingtonPost.

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JamesBamford

Author&Journalist

Dr. Bamford is a leading bestselling author on intelligence and national security

issues.HisbooksincludeThePuzzlePalace,BodyofSecrets,andAPretextforWar:
9/11,IraqandtheAbuseofAmerica'sIntelligenceAgencies.Bamfordhasalsowritten
forTheNewYorkTimesMagazine,TheWashingtonPostMagazine,TheLosAngeles
Times Magazine, and is a contributing writer for Rolling Stone. He also spent a
decadeastheWashingtoninvestigativeproducerfortheABCNewsprogram,World
News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and taught at the University of California,
Berkeley,asadistinguishedvisitingprofessor.

PratapChatterjee

ExecutiveDirector,CorpWatch

Investigativejournalistandprogressiveauthor,PratapisaBritishcitizenandgrew
up in India. He serves as the executive director ofCorpWatch, anOaklandbased
corporateaccountabilityorganization. HealsoworksfortheBureauofInvestigative
JournalisminLondon.HewritesregularlyforTheGuardianandservesontheboard
ofAmnesty International USAand of theCorporate Europe Observatory.He has
been published in theFinancial Times,The New Republic,The Guardian, andThe
Independent.Heoftenappearsasaguestexpertinawidevarietyofmediaranging
fromFoxTVtoDemocracyNow!.Hiswritinghaswonanumberofawards.

JohnMacArthur

President&Publisher,HarpersMagazine

Journalist and author of books about US politics, John was a reporter forThe Wall
Street Journal(1977), theWashington Star (1978),The Bergen Record(1978
1979),Chicago SunTimes(19791982), and an assistant foreign editor atUnited
Press International(1982). In 1993 he received the Mencken Award for best
editorial/oped column for his New York Times expos of "Nayirah", the Kuwaiti
diplomat'sdaughterwhohelpedfaketheIraqibabyincubatoratrocity.Hetookover
the foundation that ownedHarpers, and became president and publisher
ofHarper'sMagazinein1983.

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BradFriedman

Journalist

Journalist, most known for his criticism of election integrity issues in the USA.
Friedman has aBFAfromNew York University's (NYU)Tisch School of the Arts.
Friedman's,THEBRADBLOG,coversvotingrightsandelectionintegrityissuesinthe
USA, and a number of other subjects related to media reform and political
corruption.

SibelEdmonds

FBILanguageSpecialist200102

TurkishAmerican former FBItranslatorand founder of theNational Security

WhistleblowersCoalition(NSWBC).Edmondsgainedpublicattentionfollowingher
firingfromherpositionasalanguagespecialistattheFBI'sWashingtonFieldOffice
inMarch2002.ShesaccusedtheFBIofallegedseriousactsofsecuritybreachesand
coverups.Herlaterclaimshavegainedherrecognitionandawards.

PhilipGiraldi

CIACounterTerrorismOfficer197692

PhilipwascounterterrorismspecialistandmilitaryintelligenceofficeroftheUnited
StatesCentralIntelligenceAgency(CIA)foreighteenyears,workinginTurkey,Italy,
Germany,andSpainandspeaksthosenations'languages.Philipisacolumnistand
television commentator, and the Executive Director of theCouncil for the National
Interest, a group that advocates for more even handed policies by the U.S.
government in the Middle East. He gained a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from
theUniversity of Chicagoand a MAand aPh.Dfrom the University of
LondoninEuropeanHistory.

DanielEllsberg

PentagonPapersWhistleblower

FormerUnited States military analyst who, while employed by theRAND

Corporation,precipitatedanationalpoliticalcontroversyin1971whenhereleased
thePentagon Papers, a topsecretPentagonstudy of U.S. government decision
making in relation to theVietnam War, toThe New York Times,and other
newspapers.HecompletedhisPhDinEconomicsfromHarvardin1962.Ellsbergis

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the recipient of many prizes and awards encouraging peace including the Ron
RidenhourCouragePrize,theGandhiPeaceAward,andtheRightLivelihoodAward.

DouglasMcCollam

Journalist,ColumbiaJournalismReview

McCollam is a Washingtonbased legal correspondent forBusinessWeek. He

joinedBusinessWeekfromLegal Times, where he was a Senior Editor overseeing
muchoftheircoverageontheintersectionofthelaw,businessandlobbying.

WalterWeiss

Detective,MurphyPoliceDepartment20022007

WalterisaformerpolicedetectivewiththeMurphyPoliceDepartmentinTexas.In
2006, the police department was involved with the American
televisionnewsmagazine programDateline NBC; To Catch A Predator, and Walter
leftthedepartmentindisgust.

LukeDittrich

ContributingEditor,Esquire

Lukeisajournalist,andcontributingeditoratEsquire,wherehewritesonsubjects
ranging from lost atomic bombs to teenage hitmen.His forthcoming book for
Random House,The Brain That Changed Everything, is about Henry Molaison, who
in1958underwentanexperimentaloperationatthehandsofDittrich'sgrandfather.
TheoperationobliteratedMolaison'sabilitytocreatenewmemories,andMolaison
wentontobecomethemostimportanthumantestsubjectinthehistoryofscience,
revolutionizingourunderstandingofhowmemoryworks.

RothwellB.Pool

LawPartner&FamilyFriend

R.B. practices Family Lawand Alternative Dispute Resolutionfrom Terrell, Texas.

HeisalongtimelawpartnerandfamilyfriendofBillConradt,whoin2006,became
involved with the American televisionnewsmagazine programDateline NBC; To
CatchAPredator.

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 ABOUTTHEFILMMAKERS

JEANPHILIPPETREMBLAY

Director/Producer/Writer

JeanPhilippeoriginatesfromJonquire,Qubec.HestudiedLawandFilmat
CarletonUniversity.In1996,hemadeafilmentitledJourney,followingthestoryof
anaspiringyoungfilmmakerinSouthEastAsiaforoneyear.Hewasawardedan
intensiveapprenticeshipattheS.A.W.VideoCoop.Subsequently,JeanPhilippe
developedhisskillsasalightingtechnician,onfourfilmswithDistinctFeatures,TV
shows,commercials,andmusicvideos.In1998,theCanadaArtsCouncilfundedhis
shortfilmentitledRockBottomFill.Thefollowingyear,hedocumentedtheworkof
anNGOSouthAsianPartnershipCanadainPakistan.In2001,hewasaNeg
AssemblerforfilmssuchasInsomnia.In2002hedevelopedtheJourneyfilmproject
inSouthAmericaforsixmonths.In2006hecompletedanMAinFilmProductionat
theLondonFilmSchool.Hisgraduationfilmwasselectedatthe50thLondonFilm
Festival.HejoinedDOCFACTORYthatsameyearandbeganfilminghisfirstfeature
documentary,ShadowsOfLiberty,completedinJanuary2012.JeanPhilippeis
currentlypreparinganewfeature.

DANCANTAGALLO

Cowriter/Coproducer

Dan Cantagallo studied film at Harvard University and the London Film School.
Alongside his brother, Dan expanded his thesis project into a feature
documentary,No Outlet.He has worked on numerous shorts, music videos, and
documentaries including the awardwinning Operation Filmmaker.He joined
DOCFACTORY to collaborate onShadows of Liberty. Most recently, he directed the
comedy,Benny The Bum,in his hometown of Philadelphia. He works as a
screenwriterandeditorinLosAngeles.

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ARTHURJAFA

DirectorofPhotography

Bornin Tupelo,Mississippi, butraised inClarksdale,JafastudiedArchitectureand

Film at Howard University from 1978 to 1982. Jafas work has been exhibited in
numerous contexts, including 2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of
American Art; Mirrors Edge, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; Social Formal,
Westflischer Kunstveren, Munster, Germany (2002); Double Consciousness: Black
Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Art MuseumHouston, Texas (2005). He
hasdirectednumerousfilms:SlowlyThis(1995),Tree(1999),Deshotten1.0(2009).
Hiscinematographyincludes,DaughtersoftheDust,JulieDash,1991(forwhichhe
won the cinematography award at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival); Seven Songs
for Malcolm X, John Akomfrah, 1993; Crooklyn, Spike Lee, 1994; Conakry Kas,
ManthiaDiawara,2005;MeettheEye,AidaRuilova,2009;ShadowsofLiberty,Jean
Philippe Tremblay, 2012. His writing has been published in various publications
such a Black Popular Culture, edited by Gina Dent, 1992, and Everything But the
Burden,editedbyGregTate,2003.

GREGERSSALL

Editor

Gregers is an award winning film editorspecialising infictional and documentary

features. Credits include Senna, McLibel, Homeland, Drowned Out, Hanratty and
othermajorcreditsawiderangeofcompellingfilmmakingacknowledgedaround
the world.Mostrecentlyin 2012 Sennawas awardedtwo Cinema BAFTAs Best
DocumentaryandBestEditing.

TANDISJENHUDSON

Composer

Tandis Jenhudson came to the world of film music via a somewhat unorthodox
route. Although he initially trained as a classical pianist, Tandis went on to study
medicineatUniversityCollegeLondon,qualifyingasadoctorin2004.Sincethenhe
haspursuedadualcareerasbothafilmcomposerandapsychiatrist.Hescoredthe
BAFTAnominatedLove You Joseff Hughes, and has written music for numerous
other awardwinning films.In 2011 Tandis composed the soundtrack for the
featurelength filmLittle Stars of Bethlehem,narrated by Stephen Fry.Shadows of
LibertymarkshisfirstcollaborationwithJeanPhilippeTremblay.

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 ABOUTDOCFACTORY



DOCFACTORYwascreatedin2005toproduceindependentdocumentaryfilmsto
bring awareness and inspire change for important social issues worldwide.
DOCFACTORYcreatesfilmsthatbreakthemouldandrevealimportantstoriesthat
focus on injustices. DOCFACTORY is also committed to innovative, strategic
outreach campaigns. Shadows Of Liberty is the first film created, produced, and
financedbyDOCFACTORY.

Films

SHADOWSOFLIBERTY(2012)
ARTICLE12(2010)
ANINDEPENDENTMIND(2008)
KILLINGKASZTNER(2008)
KZ(2006)
BLACKGOLD(2006)

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 CREDITS


Cast
(inorderofappearance)

AmyGoodman
JanineJackson
DeepaKumar
JulianAssange
RobertMcChesney
DannyGlover
NormanSolomon
RobertaBaskin
ThuyenNguyen
BrianHealy
JohnNichols
KristinaBorjesson
KellyOMeara
PhilipWeiss
DanRather
DavidSimon
RobertParry
CharlesBowden
PeterKornbluh
DickGregory
SusanPaterno
KurtWebb
JeffCohen
SilviaRivera
ChrisHedges
JonathanLanday
BobBaer
JamesBamford
PratapChatterjee
JohnMacArthur
BradFriedman
SibelEdmonds
PhilipGiraldi
DanielEllsberg
DouglasMcCollam
WalterWeiss
LukeDittrich
RothwellB.Pool


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 PublictestimoniesfromtheFCCHearings
LonnyRayAtkinson
AnneMarieJohnson
EllenKing
KRSONE
DavidOrtiz
BrianHiatt
RogerHull
SharonHall
DavidDaveyDCook
SteveAnderson


Directed,Produced,andWrittenby
JeanPhilippeTremblay

ExecutiveProducers
DOCFACTORY

Cowriter,Coproducer
DanielCantagallo


Coproducer
WilliamRobinson

FilmEditor
GregersSall

Composer
TandisJenhudson

DirectorofPhotography
ArthurJafa

Narrator
KerryShale

ProductionManagers
ZeynepYildiz
PeterBarker
ChristianGill

PostProductionSupervisor
SahilGill

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 Researchers
DavidMiller
JonathanPage
JoStone

ArchiveProducers
KarenWalsh
PaulBell

ArchiveResearchers
DavidStudwell
JonathanPage

EditorialConsultant
JohnAkomfrah

ProductionConsultants
LinaGopaul
DavidLawson

LocationSoundRecorder
TrevorMathison



PostProductionbyMolinare

DIFilmConsultant
JustinLanchbury

PostProductionManagers
AndrewDearnley
KerryShelton

Colourist
AndrewDaniel

OnlineEditor
GarethParry

ReRecordingMixer
GeorgeFoulgham

AssistantReRecordingMixers
NicholasAshe
NasParkash

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 SoundDesign
RobinGreen

DISupervisor
MattJames

SupervisingDIConformEditor
SteveKnight

DIConformEditors
FrancoisKamffer
JamieWelsh
JatPatel
TheresaCrooks

DigitalFilmTechnicians
MikeAndrews
MichelleCort

DataTransfer
KatelinWestwood
SteveOwen

FilmConsultant
LenBrown

Animation&MotionGraphicsbyCapture

Producer
MatthewJones

LeadDesigner
LouisDuMont

ProductionManager
JonReidy

OriginalAnimationIllustrations
SamGreen

Animation&Design
NeilCopland
MichaelMarczewski
KoochChung
RobWicksteed
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 FirstCameraAssistant
JosephMastrangelo

AdditionalComposer
JeremyBirchall

AdditionalDirectorsofPhotography
CharlesC.Meyer
DavidRom

AdditionalEditing
CliffWest
NickFollows

ProductionCoordinators
TeppeiNogaki
NellieButler
MollyCrossthwaite

AdditionalProductionManagers
AnetaChalas
DianaVoxerbrant
JenniferFilippazzo

MakeUpArtists
MaryAaron
MartaCamer
JaniceKinigopoulos
DianeNoorlander
JesseFisher

AdditionalResearch
TimDonovan
GaryGraham

AdditionalFirstCameraAssistants
MattKlammer
JonathanBowerbank
RalphMesser
SamRawlings
JamesStrosahl

Extras
ElaineAndrews
FredBrett
JamesButler
ElenaDementieva
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 KateSweeney
JamesToynton
AjeneWashington
AlanCochran
JohnHateley
DavidLeTendre
DennisONeill

LocationProductionAssistants
AjeneWashington
RussellMondy
DonNapoleon

ChristopherSylvain
ConradWebley
ScotBelsky
LindaMassey
LisaMall
JakeJavitch

ProductionAssistants
ErikPerera
QasimArshad
DanielJohnsonMathison

Interns
RubenCruz
JustinR.Sindone
AshleyWiener
OliviaHumphreys
KatyaNasim

PropsMaster
AjeneWashington

StillsPhotography
JohnOakley

LegalServices
FraserBloom

LegalConsultancyUSA
OliverGoodenough

ProductionAccountant
HelenKellett

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 Insurance
MediaInsuranceBrokersLtd.
DavidJohnstone



ArchivalFootage/PhotosCourtesyof
ABCNews
APArchive
BBCMotionGallery
SusanBell
CBSNews
CNN
Clips&Footage
Corbis/Bettman
CSpanArchives
ESPN
FilmArchives
FootageFarm
GettyImages
ITNSource
IanWebb
JourneymanPictures
LibraryofCongress
MikeStone
NARA
NATO
NBCNews
ReaganLibrary
SacramentoNews&Review
SteveRhodes
TexasDepartmentofPublicSafety,MurphyTexasPoliceDepartment
UNTV
BradWilson
ZadigProductions

OriginalMusic
Mogwai,"ThePrecipice",B.Burns
PublishedbyChrysalisMusicLtd2008.
Usedbypermission.Allrightsreserved.





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 Drivers
NicolasRahbany
DeanThreadgold
JayShepley

Transcriptions
BillBourneAssociates

Super8Camera
JeanPhilippeTremblay

Logodesign
FangohrDesign
ITSupport
RichardPlastow
FredericTremblay

HDCameraOperator
FrankPirazzi

AdditionalProductionCoordinating
LuciaAshmore
LucyDuxbury
LaurenSandler

4KConsultant
JonathanTyrrell

REDCAMDigitalSupport
BrianByrne
NateHeartt

Weareforevergratefultoourfamilies,friends,andmentorswhoselove,support,
andadvicehavebeena
sourceofinspiration.
Thankyou.

Veryspecialthanksto

CraigAaron
CarrieBiggsAdams
JonathanAdelstein
JessAnscombe
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 EdBaker
ArleneS.Balkansky
AmandaBallantyne
SusanBell
EricBlack
NoamChomsky
KevinCloutier
JohnConnolly
BillConroy
RichardConway
MichaelCopps
CatherineCrawley
LukeDittrich
MoctesumaEsparza
JosephA.Farrell
ConraddeFiebre
ChuckHaga
RossHalliday
AlanHayling
TonDeHeij
DavidHendrix
LaurenHewes
MicheleHilmes
YolandaHippensteele
JohnHockenberry
KyleHorst
AronKahn
TimKarr
AndrewKeen
EllenKing
EricKlinenberg
JoeLauria
JonathanLawson
RebeccaLichtenfeld
MarkLloyd
JocelynMarchington
ChristianMelendez
MaryMichals
JodiMiller
KayMiller
Mogwai
BillMoyers
KelMunger
JamesNathaniel
MidoriOgata
JamesOttaway
JackiePenny
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 JohnPilger
MichaelRatner
UrsulaRiley
HannahSassaman
NickSchou
BenScott
JoshSilver
TomStalcup
KateStanley
JoshStern
StephanieWarren
IanWebb
RichardWeiner



Thankyoutothefollowingorganisations

BlackAgendaReport
CafOto
CenterforCitizenMedia
CenterforDigitalDemocracy
CenterforMediaandDemocracy
CenterforPublicIntegrity
ChildrenNow
CodePink
ConsumerFederationofAmerica
DemocracyNow!
DroppingKnowledge
FairnessandAccuracyinReporting
FederalCommunicationsCommission
FreePress
FutureofMusicCoalition
HispanicMediaCoalition
MediaAccessProject
MediaAlliance
MediaandDemocracyCoalition
MediaMatters
NationalConferenceforMediaReform
NewspaperGuild
NYCGrassrootsMediaCoalition
OneWayTheatre
ParentsTelevisionCouncil
PavekMuseum
PrometheusRadioProject
RainbowPushCoalition
ReclaimtheMedia
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SeattleTimes
TheNewsDissector
ThePortlandNewspapersPrintingPress(Portland,ME,USA)
USSHornetMuseum
WikiLeaks
ZuluNation(Chicago,IL,USA)



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www.shadowsofliberty.org


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