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In this afikra FWD, Sura Ali shares a documentary film by Amir Amirani on the largest protest in history. Note: The presenter is not an expert on this subject but is sharing information in the hopes of spurring interest in the subject.Hosted by: Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by The Brooklyn Nomads https://www.instagram.com/thebrooklynnomads/About the afikra Community Presentations:A community member delivers an in-depth presentation on a topic related to the Arab world's history and culture during a one-hour online event. The presentation is the culmination of a month-long afikra coaching process to help identify a topic, find research, and develop the presentation. The goal is to showcase the presenter's curiosity, research, and share some knowledge. Each presentation is followed by a moderated Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp Follow Youtube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity.Read more about us on afikra.com
Amir Amirani is an Iranian-born film director and producer. Amirani joined the BBC in 1992 as a Graduate Production Trainee. He was a writer and researcher for a four-part TV series about the Nobel Prizes. In 1994, he and his brother Taghi founded Amirani Films, which has produced documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, and other British broadcasters, as well as for PBS and other broadcasters abroad. Amir served as writer, director, and cinematographer of the documentary We Are Many, which was released in 2014, an account of the worldwide protests against the Iraq War on February 15, 2003. In 2014, Amirani recorded a series of video “masterclasses” for the Scottish Documentary Institute, in which he shares advice about filmmaking, including choice of topic, the role of the musical score, funding, and the use of films to promote political causes. He is also the co-producer of the 2019 documentary Coup 53, which is about “the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’etat in Iran that changed the course of history.” He has written articles of reportage for the New Statesman, New Scientist, Business Traveller Asia, and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.
We’re joined by Amir Amirani, activist & the filmmaker behind We Are Many, a documentary that looks at the global protests sparked by the build up to the Iraq War. In 2003, tens of millions of us took to the streets, demanding a change in course in public policy. While the war machine continued on, forever altering the future of the Middle East and our world, those protests also sparked in our societies the belief that we can make a change. 17 years later, many of us are still fighting for justice after being forged in the failure to stop a needless war. Support this podcast
Amir Amirani is the director/producer of We Are Many. The never-before-told story of the largest demonstration in human history, and how the movement created by a small band of activists changed the world. Amir is a film-maker with a strong track record of work for some of the most respected series of the BBC.
Director, Amir Amirani discusses his documentary, “We Are Many” with Jan Price! 'We Are Many' is the story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on February 15th, 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.
WE ARE MANY focuses on February 15th, 2003, when up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before in their lives, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. The New York Times called this movement the “Second Superpower”. How did this day come about? Who organized it? And was it, as many people claimed, a total failure? This fearless, thought-provoking documentary is the remarkable inside story behind the first ever global demonstration and its surprising and unreported legacy. WE ARE MANY features testimony from a unique cast of direct participants, including organizers, activists, high-profile figures, and of course the public, filmed in seven countries – Italy, Spain, Egypt, Sweden, Australia, UK, and the USA. Extraordinary testimony from activists in Egypt reveals how, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, the global anti-war protests inspired those in Tahrir Square to go on to engage in the massive democratic movement that ultimately led to the Arab Spring. In the UK, the government was defeated over the proposed invasion of Syria, a historic event that might not have transpired without the legacy of those demonstrations a decade ago. The star-studded list of contributors includes Danny Glover, actor Mark Rylance, film director Ken Loach, Prof. Noam Chomsky, musicians Brian Eno and Damon Albarn, writer and Vietnam Vet Ron Kovic (author of ‘Born on the 4th of July’), Rev. Jesse Jackson, Richard Branson, and Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, amongst others. WE ARE MANY is a bold documentary by Amir Amirani charts the birth and growth of the new people power movement, now sweeping the world, taking us up to the Arab Spring and Syria, a little over 10 years after that historic day. For news, screenings and updates go to: wearemany.com
Director and Producer, Amir Amirani takes us back to February 15, 2003 when the world stood together in solidary against the coming war in Iraq. Amirani, who was at the Berlin Film Festival at that time and took part in the events in Germany took 9 years to make We Are Many, a documentary that chronicles the largest protest in the history of the world as nearly 30 million people took part in as influenced by the 2 Million British protestors against the governments run by George W. Bush and Tony Blair. The documentary shows people from Western Europe and the United States that for the first time realized their governments had lied to them about a looming war and what the Middle East and the rest of Asia already knew to be true from the years of colonialism. Tonight's festivities taking place entitled One Night of Peace will commemorate that amazing day in human history by screening the documentary We Are Many along with a pre-screening celebration featuring Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, the Resistance Revival Chorus, Tunisian singer/songwriter Emel Mathlouthi, Citizen Cope and Mike Peters of The Alarm. Following the documentary, a post-screening panel featuring Amirani, Madea Benjamin, Colleen Kelly and Bill Fletcher Jr. Tonight's event beings at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and can be screening in the US at www.wearemany.com/screenings-usa. To find out more about We Are Many and the future screenings and replays of tonight's celebration visit: www.wearemany.com. Follow We Are Many on Twitter @WeAreManyMovie and on Instagram @wearmanyfilm. Follow Amir Amirani on Twitter @AmirAmirani and on Instagram @happyphoton.
The Cinema For All Podcast is a celebration of going to the cinema. In this eighth, full length episode Jaq and Abi talk about their favourite documentaries – what makes a doc cinematic, the attraction of docs to modern audiences and some of the recent huge box office successes such as RBG, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo. The also chat about what they’ve seen at the cinema recently (Vice, Fyre, The Favourite) and what’s coming out soon (On the Basis Sex, Capernaum and A Private War). In this episode, we also welcome Sheffield Doc/Fest Interim Director Melanie Iredale, who talks with us about the festival, her favourite documentaries and what makes a documentary really resonate with an cinema audience. The Cinema For All podcast is proud to be supported by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery. HOSTS: Jaq Chell and Abi Standish GUESTS: Melanie Iredale PRODUCER: Jay Platt Thanks for listening! Please subscribe and rate and review our podcast – it really helps other listeners find us! For more on Cinema For All head to www.cinemaforall.org.uk or follow us on Twitter/ Instagram on @cinemaforall Here's a list of Melanie's ten favourite documentaries: Strong Island, d. Yance Ford Rough Aunties, d. Kim Longinotto Grizzly Man, d. Werner Herzog Man on Wire, d. James Marsh The Arbor, d. Clio Bernard Drifters, d. John Grierson The Punk Singer, d. Sini Anderson A Woman Captured, d. Bernadette Tuza Ritter The Writing in the Sand, d. Sikka Liisa Konttinen We Are Many, d. Amir Amirani
We delineate a few different ways of protesting. We talk about Brexit and try to dissect some criticisms of the EU. We ask Donald Trump some empathetic questions.---- This week's links ----[1] We Are Many - film by Amir Amirani - http://wearemany.com/[2] Martin Luther King - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.[3] Emily Pankhurst - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Pankhurst[4] Millicent Fawcett - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent_Fawcett[5] Ghandi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi[6] Seinfeld - Check at the end of the meal system - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC3ah71Meyg[7] Stop Funding Hate - https://stopfundinghate.org.uk/[8] Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge - https://amzn.to/2uInkrp---- Credits ----Music by http://michaelforrestmusic.comTalking is by Ivanka Majic and Michael Forrest---- Follow us on Twitter ----https://twitter.com/ivankahttps://twitter.com/michaelforresthttps://twitter.com/PodcastGrand---- Find us on Facebook ----https://www.facebook.com/grandpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Nick Revell hosts May's NP2BF. The guests are musical comedian James Sherwood; political stand-up Kate Smurthwaite; The Daily Telegraph's political sketch writer Michael Deacon; and Amir Amirani, the director of We Are Many, a film about the anti-war marches. With a monologue from Paul Willers.
In this interview, Donnchadh Tiernan talks to Ross Whitaker, the Festival Programmer of the IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, which takes place September 25th – 28th. This year's festival includes the world premiere of Ciarín Scott’s In a House That Ceased to Be as well as premieres for other Irish films, including Blood Fruit, Showrunners and It Came from Connemara!!. The international programme includes Irish premieres of Steve James’ Life Itself about the film critic Roger Ebert, Kim Longinotto’s Love is All, Joe Berlinger’s Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger, Andreas Johnsen’s Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case and Amir Amirani’s We Are Many. The festival also welcomes Amir, Kim and Andreas as guests to the festival, along with long-time Werner Herzog producer André Singer, who presents his new film Night Will Fall.
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