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INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR
28:30
2003

Part scathing critique, part call to action, Independent Media In A Time Of War argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. "Independent media has a crucial responsibility to go to where the silence is," says narrator Amy Goodman, "to represent the diverse voices of people engaged in dissent." Goodman criticizes the refusal to report civilian war casualties during the 2003 Iraq invasion and the new phenomenon of "embedded reporters" as examples of a pro-military bias in the corporate U.S. media. A diverse team of producers from Hudson Mohawk Indymedia collaborated to create this extraordinarily rich, compelling and often disturbing portrait of a media system gone astray at a critical moment in history.   Independent Media In A Time Of War is the last installment of three HMIMC documentaries about the Iraq invasion.

PRODUCED BY Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center

SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
TV Broadcasts: Free Speech TV (09/03 - present) & Cable access stations throughout U.S.
November 7, 2003- Media Reform Conference - Make the Media (Madison WI)
November 22-24, 2003- Select Media Festival (Chicago IL)
January 3-6, 2004 - Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago IL)
>January 15-24, 2004- Freedom Cinema Festival (Park City UT)
January 17, 2004- Art In General Video Marathon (New York NY)
January 25-29, 2004- Rotterdam International Film Festival (The Netherlands)
January 26, 2004- Grand Rapids Media And Democracy Film Festival (Grand Rapids MI)
February 7, 2004- Arab and Iranian Film Festival (Seattle WA)
February 2004- Resistance Cinema (New York NY)
March 20, 2004- Other Cinema (San Francisco CA)
May 2004- Media That Matters Film Festival (New York NY)
March 2005 - MoMA Documentary Fortnight

CAST, CREW & OTHER DETAILS
A diverse team of over twenty students, artists, historians, reporters and activists worked together over an eight-month period to create a trilogy of videos in response to the US invasion of Iraq.   "Independent Media in a Time of War" is the third and final piece in the trilogy by Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center, a grassroots collective located in upstate New York.