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<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">INTRODUCTION
Why Democracy?
Democracy is arguably the greatest political buzzword of our time and is invoked by everyone - but what does it mean? Can it be defined, measured, safeguarded? Can it be sold, bought, and transplanted? Can it grow? Can it die? What does it mean to people who can't even talk about it? What does it mean to people who don't believe in it? What does it mean to you?
In October 2007, ten one-hour films focused on contemporary democracy will be broadcast in the world's largest ever factual media event. More than 40 broadcasters on all continents are participating, with an estimated audience of 300 million viewers. Each of the broadcasters - an A-Z which includes everyone from Al Arabiya to ZDF - will be producing a locally-based seasons of film, radio, debate and discussion to tie in with the global broadcast of the Why Democracy? films.
The films are made by independent award-winning filmmakers from around the world, including China, India, Japan, Liberia, USA, Bolivia, Denmark, Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan and Russia. With subjects ranging from US torture methods to the election of a class monitor in a Chinese primary school to the Danish Cartoons scandal, the films take a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the world we live in today.
That's not all. We are creating 20 thought-provoking short films, dealing with personal, political and rights issues around the theme 'What does democracy mean to me?' These films will be available to view on whydemocracy.net.
The films produced by the project have a common reference beyond the thematic. Both the global broadcast and the debates arising from the films will lead to a greater understanding concerning both the conditions of governance facing people in different societies and cultures, as well as a broader understanding of democracy. And the long-term educational perspective will allow for maximum use of the combined elements of the project.The films will be accompanied by a widespread post-transmission distribution programme on DVD as part of the global project.
But our ambitions have extended well beyond the broadcast media. In a groundbreaking collaboration, Why Democracy? has teamed up with Metro Newspapers worldwide to ask everyone - from political leaders to athletes, celebrities to religious figures - 10 questions about democracy. The answers will appear online, in the press and in a collection of short films. The same questions will be part of a global opinion poll.
It's on the web that people form all over the planet can really join in. An unprecedented global film premiere on MySpace.com will launch the online debate. The there is whydemocracy.net with discussion forums, chat rooms and wikis buzzing, interviews with democracy heroes, our short films, a collection of educational web resources and even a "why democracy house" where young people from all over the world will keep the enormous web effort going.
In the three years that it has taken to create Why Democracy?, the world's political rights situation has become in some respects more terrifying. With so much violence done in the name of democracy, it has undoubtedly become a more contested idea. However, there is even greater need than before to understand it better and, despite its ironies, there is an unparalled interest in the promise it holds.
Fareed Zakaria writes: "If democracy becomes an empty shell, this would be a tragedy because democracy with all its flaws represents the 'last best hope' for people around the world. But it needs to be secured and strengthened for our times. Eighty years ago, Woodrow Wilson took America into the twentieth century with a challenge to make the world safe for democracy. As we enter the twenty-first century, our task is to make democracy safe for the world".
Why Democracy? hopes to encourage everyone to engage with this task. It all starts on October 8th. Wherever you are in the world, join in!</td></tr></table>
THE FILMS
(in alphabetical order)
Bloody Cartoons
Director:
Karsten Kjaer
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
Freedom of expression is a democratic principle: does this mean ‘limitless freedom’, and at what cost to other democratic rights? Are some democratic values more important than others? Cartoons in a Danish provincial paper brought these questions to the forefront of world politics</td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/970303
Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate
Director:
Kazuhiro Soda
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
A first-time reluctant candidate gets to grips with what it takes to win an election for the Japanese Prime Minister’s Liberal Democratic Party. Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda’s cinema-verite documentary closely follows the heated election campaign in Kawasaki, Japan, revealing the true nature of "democracy".</td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/966995
Dinner with the President
Director:
Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
Filmmakers Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan ask what democracy means in Pakistan – where its main promoter is the Chief of the Army who assumed power through military coup, and where society often still functions according to older tribal rules for political and social life.</td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/963983
Egypt: We Are Watching You
Director:
Leila Menjou and Sherief Elkatsha
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
After 24 years of leadership under President Mubarak’s National Democratic Party, Egypt is a nation on the brink of change. However, violence and widespread allegations of fraud accompany the first democratic multiparty elections in 2005. The film follows three women activists in their quest to expose the truth about Egypt’s new democracy.</td></tr></table>
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For God, Tsar and the Fatherland
Director:
Nino Kirtadze
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
Sixteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the phrase ‘managed democracy’ describes the state of Russian politics. What does a post-democratic Russia look like?</td></tr></table>
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In Search of Gandhi
Director:
Lalit Vachani
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
What kind of democracy does India have today? Using Gandhi’s famous Dandi salt march through Gujarat as a starting point, this road-movie style documentary looks at contemporary India, the world’s biggest democracy, and explores the significance of the Gandhian legacy of peace and non-violence for democratic movements in the twenty first century.</td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/947204
Iron Ladies of Liberia
Director:
Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the first ever freely elected female head of state in Africa. How does she lead Liberia, a nation ready for change, in it’s first year of democratic rule after nearly two decades of civil war?</td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/947204
Looking for the Revolution
Director:
Rodrigo Vazquez
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
Ché Guevara died in Bolivia trying to bring revolution to South America. Forty years later, his admirer Evo Morales becomes the continent's first elected indigenous president with the promise of continuing Che's unfinished revolution. Will he be able to do it?</td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/957322
Please Vote for Me
Director:
Weijun Chen
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
In an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China, eight-year old children compete for the position of Class Monitor. Their parents, devoted to their only child, take part and start to influence the results. PLEASE VOTE FOR ME is a film about an experiment with democracy in China.</td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/943511
Taxi to the Dark Side
Director:
Alex Gibney
<table width="500"><tr><td align="justify">About this film:
The US government has developed what appears to be a policy of using torture while at the same time spreading its message of democracy around the world. The ease with which ideas fundamental to the rule of law were subverted in the process, provokes difficult questions about the kind of future American-style democracy will bring. </td></tr></table>
bt: http://www.mininova.org/get/953637
notas:
[*]Cada documental es hijo de su padre y de su madre. Duran todos en torno a 50 minutos y pesan 700MB - más o menos. Están en idiomas diversos y tienen subtítulos en inglés incrustados en el video cuando no se habla esa lengua. Aquí tenemos, como ejemplo, las intimidades de uo de ellos (Iron Ladies of Liberia) ...
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Audio BitRate: 128 kbps
Audio Streams: 1
Audio Languages: English
RunTime: 47 min 1,28 s (70532 Frames)
Filesize: 700mb
TV-cap: English subs
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[*] Según la web oficial, aquí lo emite Canal+ [nótese que es la única cadena de la lista de la que no viene página web], pero no figura ninguna fecha de emisión, y buscando "democracia" y "democracy" en plus.es no encuentro nada. En Somalia los están emitiendo ya. Y en Estados Unidos, y en ...