Forum Post: Help a documentary on OWS get made!!!
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 21, 2011, 6:16 a.m. EST by Nerfherder
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The film will attempt to show Occupy Wall Street movement from within. By documenting the day to day events of the occupation, its General Assemblies, and its protests, we are attempting to show what it is like to participate in Occupy Wall Street. Through interviews with occupiers, locals, and the crew, Liberty Square will paint an intimate portrait of the people who make the movement a reality. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/libertysquarefilm/liberty-square-an-occupation (this is a non-profit, unbiased film designed to illuminate a true occupy experience for those who cannot attend or are simply interested yet uninformed.)
its a great idea! dont listen to the negative nay sayers if you feel it can help the movement do it.
Ty geo2seeit! Being positive is always beneficial :D
Why don't you make a documentary about the people who lost their jobs due to greed and corruption? The people you claim you represent. Why does everything about this movement have to be egotistical, self fulfilling and about you? This is the problem with Generation Y/Baby Boomers, your sense of entitlement ruins everything you take part in. What a joke.
So an amateur film crew can compete with movies like Inside Job, Capitalism: A love Story and the countless others that illuminate how things got to where they are? No, the point of this film is well stated, un-ego driven and is actually about THEM not us. its about the people who make this thing happen...how this thing happens. Read before you troll and make unneeded insults.
No this is about you. So you can show the world, who could care fucking less that you are trying oh so hard and deserve credit for your work. You guys are children and every single part of OWS has been about bringing attention to yourselves for no reason. There are more videos out there about the police being mean and pushing you then there is interviews with people who got fucked over due to corporate greed. Selfish, selfish, selfish, look at me that's all this shit is about.
I'm pretty sure we state we will have interviews with people adn why they are there....you really are just angry for no reason here. And incorrect in the goals of our film...so dont watch it, dont help...it matters not to me. Goodbye
The real John Marsden would be disappointed in the way you speak. And if you somehow are him, you are doing yourself a disservice by conducting yourself in the manner you are. =/
"this is a non-profit, unbiased film designed to illuminate a true occupy experience for those who cannot attend or are simply interested yet uninformed"
Your own fucking words moron. It's all about YOU.
You truly are making zero sense. If I am an unbiased documentarian asking questions at an occupy, how is that in any way about me?
You changed your post so I'm responding to your old post before you changed your words around.
YOU as a general term meaning you the angry, spoiled white kids with entitled upbringings. The documentary shouldn't be about YOU. It should be about the ones you supposedly fight for. The person who lost their pension due to corporate greed. The family that had their parents laid off and now can't make ends meet. The son or daughter who has to make the tough call now by deciding to go to college or to stay home and support their family. No fuck those stories lets make this about your drum circles and how you eat organic penne and bolognese sauce every fucking day. That requires not having your circus be the center of attention and you just can't bring yourself to doing that.
Yep that whole paragraph you wrote, shows me you have no clue what you are talking about. What makes you think im white, want to film drum circles and eat organic at all? Nothing, you read a few lines and started blasting your nonsense that really has no relevance to the documentary I am trying to get made...but thanks for keeping this thread at the top of the list for a few minutes...anything helps :)
To everyone in this thread...it is intended to be unbiased and a genuine look at how occupies truly function in a logistics manner, as a community and to give people who cannot attend a real insight as to how it is to attend the events daily. Also, it is completely non-profit and we are investing alot of our own money to make it.
One last thing, I am the only person posting in this thread that actually has something to do with this project. I think some of you are mistaken as to some commentors. being involved.
I was involved with the 'Crowd Funding' of a film by 'Spanner Films' in the UK, a few years ago. If you are serious about this, see :
a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_funding ,
b) http://crowdfunding.pbworks.com/w/page/10402176/Crowdfunding &
c) http://www.spannerfilms.net/crowd_funding .
Other sites & info available ; just do a 'crowd funding' search.
Good Luck ...
et per ardua ad astra ;-)
Wow, thanks alot for the great links shadz66...every comment, advice and idea helps!
Maybe there's a well know film maker that would be interested in making the documentary!
Call Michael Moore. He'd probably all over it like white on rice - if he doesn't already have something planned.
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It should aim to be unbiased with the inclusion of critics analyzing the movement. If it's just a look from within without critique, it will just be a boring promotional video for Occupy.
No, let the critics make their own. They have loads of $$ to do so. We do not need to promote their BS.
I am a loyal OWS supporter but I agree with Glaucon. If it is true documentary about the movement it should address all aspects including the critiques. Those critiques are a large part of the OWS story and you would be telling only a part of the tale - and I feel doing a disservice to the movement without putting them in.
Remember, just because you show critiques of OWS in the film does not mean you are promoting one side or the other. It means you are a skilled and conscientious film-maker/documentarian, and that you have faith in the movement and believe it will stand against those critiques.
Ultimately it's your film however and I wish you luck with it either way.
So you just want to make a lame promotional video for Occupy instead of making an interesting unbiased documentary? Why? So occupiers can gather around, watch it on TV, then give each other high fives?
Why not? All your interested in is making a f*cking dollar off it.
Who talked about money? What magical hat did you pull that idea from?
Oh, now make believe your doing for free? Whose talkin magical thinking now?
Actually you are talking to someone that has nothing to do with the film in Glaucon. I am a part of it however and this is all funded by the creators and pledges through kickstarter.com. There is zero profit involved and yes we are doing it all for free. So I guess in your words we are magical. TY!
If you want me to provide a criticism of Occupy for your movie, I'll be glad to do it for free if I agree with the movie's premise, it's editing, etc... I would need to speak with the director and see if it's being properly planned and organized. I wouldn't participate in a student-like makeshift project. I would also have to be assured no one else is getting paid. If I'm going to participate for free, I don't want someone else making profits over my hard work. It's only fair.
No one is getting paid...and I thank you for your tips and advice. :D