Free Movie: The 4th World War: UC-Berkeley Wed-Sept.15th

The Fourth World War was shot by award-winning New York film collective
Big Noise Films on the frontlines of struggles spanning five continents.
It is the untold human story of men and women who resist being annihilated
in the current global conflict.

While American airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated
by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human face of war is
rarely seen. The Fourth World War weaves together the images and voices of
the war on the ground - from the front lines of struggles in Mexico, Argentina,
South Africa, Palestine, Korea, "the North" from Seattle to Genoa, and the
"War on Terror" in New York and Iraq.

The product of over two years of filming, The Fourth World War is a new kind
of film for a new world. The intensity and immediacy of its images are beyond
anything corporate television can shoot, the intimacy and passion of its stories
are beyond anything it can feel.
Narrated by Tony Award winner Suheir Hammad and singer Michael Franti of
Spearhead, it is a radical story of hope and human connection in the face of a
war that shatters and divides.

The Fourth World War premiered in four sold out shows at The International
Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) in late November, and it has already
sent shockwaves through the independent film world. The Fourth World War was
launched in North America at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in January, and is
an official selection of the Next 5 Minutes Festival - Amsterdam, Korean Labor
Film Festival - Seoul, Films Fra Sor - Olso, IDFA Flies Tropics - Surinam,
Cinema Texas - Austin, Big Sky, OVNI - Barcelona, World Social Forum Film
Festival - Mumbai, India, ReelWorld - Toronto, Cleveland International, DOXA,
Syracuse International, Ann Arbor and Latinoamerica Arde - Buenos Aires.


"Inspirational. Essential. THE FOURTH WORLD WAR documents the history of
the future before it is born. . . and while we can still do something about it."
-Peter Wintonick, Internatonal Editor, POV (Point-of-View Magazine)

"Passionate, euphoric, contagious. . . It is our worlds against their system."
-IDFA, Amsterdam

"A powerful, radical cry from the frontlines of the war on people. This film
captures the spirit of resistance: it is as beautiful and global as humanity itself."
-Naomi Klein, Author of NO LOGO

"THE FOURTH WORLD WAR is a daring, courageous, heart-pounding intervention
against empire. A remarkable, inspiring cinematic achievement that completely
reprograms the vectors of politically engaged documentary."
- Patricia R. Zimmermann, author, States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars,
Democracies


Richard Rowley and Jacqueline Soohen  of Big Noise Films are New York based
filmmakerswhose groundbreaking feature documentaries, Zapatista (1998), Black
and Gold (1999) and This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000), have won top
honors at hundreds of film festivals from New York, Toronto and Los Angeles to
Berlin, Seoul and Bogota. They are also established video journalists and have
reported for national television and radio news program Democracy Now!  from
Argentina, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, Ecuador, Brasil, East Timor, South Africa
and Palestine, where they were the only video team to break
the siege on the Church of the Nativity in 2002.

http://www.bignoisefilms.com