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Orwell Rolls in his Grave

The film examines the current and past relationships between the media, the US government and corporations, analyzing the possible consequences of the concentration of media ownership. Making references to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the film argues that reality has met and in some ways exceeded Orwell’s expectations about a society dominated by thought control, [...]

March 9, 2011 Media 0 Comments

Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century

Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century explores the rise of mechanistic philosophy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarchical systems. Topics covered include behaviorism, scientific management, work-place democracy, schooling, frustration-aggression hypothesis and human experimentation. Scott Noble, the filmmaker behind the extraordinary and informative documentary Psywar, has made another revelatory and important [...]

February 26, 2011 Media 0 Comments

Starsuckers: Our Celebrity Obsessed Media

Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it.
Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of [...]

January 23, 2011 Media 2 Comments

WikiRebels: The WikiLeaks Story

Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it.
From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.
Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as [...]

December 12, 2010 Media 0 Comments

X Rated: Top 20 Most Controversial TV Moments

A countdown of the top 20 most controversial TV moments, calculated based on the number of complaints by viewers and the amount of media hype generated.

November 6, 2010 Media 0 Comments

Influencers: How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious

Influencers is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.
The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.
Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara [...]

November 5, 2010 Media 0 Comments

Psywar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind

This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States and the world, with an emphasis on the “elitist theory of democracy” and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
Psywar: The Real Battlefield is the Mind is designed both as an introduction to the concept of psychological warfare by governments against [...]

October 25, 2010 Media 0 Comments

The Modern Racist Paradigm

This is a well researched documentary that exposes the “White” Media’s long-term agenda to standardize Caucasian people as the “social norm” for general society.
Through the globalization and centralization of the “White” media and its constant propagation of repetitive images depicting Caucasians in positive roles and as protagonists while usually depicting Non-Caucasians as background characters and [...]

July 24, 2010 Media 0 Comments

Anxiety Culture: The Rise of Status Anxiety

Nobody spends much time resenting the Queen, Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. But we are far more likely to get resentful if someone we believe is just us moves into a bigger house or gets a better job. We most envy people we see as equals.
We all worry about what others think of us. We [...]

July 4, 2010 Media 0 Comments

OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

Outfoxed takes a look at Ruper Murdoch’s FOX news, which has re-shaped the media landscape in the United States. The documentaries provides an in-depth look at Fox News, how it works, who funds it and the people it was created to benefit. Media is the nervous system of a democracy, but the free world is [...]

June 21, 2010 Media 0 Comments