FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“★★★★”- Kam Williams, Newsblaze.com
“A sort of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for global economics…a powerful description of how Western policies since colonialism have subjugated Third World countries.”
-Charles Masters, The Hollywood Reporter
 
  CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY
‘THE END OF POVERTY?’
Available on BLU-RAY May 24, 2011
LOS ANGELES (March 16, 2011) – This provocative documentary, which garnered national and international attention from educators, activists and humanitarians. THE END OF POVERTY?, narrated by Martin Sheen, has been screened by colleges, universities, and non-profit organizations across the nation and now, by popular be demand, it will be available on …

UNRATED: A WEEK OF SEX IN CINEMA (NY)

 Posted by Gerald Wright on February 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM
 

Opening February 18 -24, 2011 at NY’s Quad Cinema
In retrospective “Unrated: A Week Of Sex in the Cinema, Philippe Diaz and distributor Cinema Libre Studio have curated a retrospective of six notable films that explore the edgier side of relationships.  Designed to foster a broader dialogue with filmgoers, the showcase allows New York audiences the chance to revisit six popular and controversial films that push buttons and boundaries for their frank and explicit …

ACTIVIST AND FILMMAKER JOSH TICKELL TO ‘FUEL’ PUSH FOR SOLUTIONS ON DEEPWATER OIL SPILL

With Launch of DVD on June 22nd, the FUEL team of Energy Experts
Began a National Dialogue on Solutions for the DeepWater Oil Spill
Events to Span from Los Angeles to New Orleans and Canada
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LOS ANGELES, CA (June 23, 2010) –   To coincide with the two month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that triggered the worst environmental disaster in American history and the June 22nd DVD release of the Sundance Award winning documentary, FUEL, …

“****… EXCELLENT”
-Kam Williams, Newsblaze.com
“A sort of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for global economics…a powerful description of how Western policies since colonialism have subjugated Third World countries.”
-Charles Masters, The Hollywood Reporter
The End of Poverty? is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land and other natural resources as well as …

Producer Cliff Cobb is featured on Sacramento & Co. :
Cliff Cobb joins us to share about his feature-length documentary “The End of Poverty?” which won critical acclaim at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The film will be opening at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento starting March 19th.
Watch the video here: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=77278

Cinema Libre Studio is thrilled to introduce our re-vamped program. Cinema Libre is the leading distributor of a wide array of critically acclaimed independent, social issue, and political documentary films. We are proud to offer institutions and organizations the educational versionsof the following films (with more to come): The End of Poverty?, Fuel, Small Voices, Rebuilding Hope, and A River of Waste.

‘The End of Poverty?’
Documentary links talking-head arguments to real people
by Kerry Lengel – Feb. 4, 2010 08:10 AM
The Arizona Republic
Read here; http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/movies/articles/2010/02/04/20100204poverty0205.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 2010
ADM Tries to Take Down Funny Davos Video; Big Business Has No Solutions; Now What?

ADM video still available here, here, and (for download and reposting) here; page here
Fake initiatives pages, with links to organizations seeking change on these issues
More information about last week’s website and videos
Contact: scurrilous@theyesmen.org, bportello@cinemalibrestudio.com

A legal complaint from agribusiness giant ADM has resulted in the removal from Youtube of a fake video of ADM’s CEO making over-honest pronouncements. (The video is still available here, here, and, for download and reposting, here.)
Last week, the …

New York City, Cinema Village (22 E 12th St.) running thru Thursday, 2/11
Showtimes Daily: 12:45pm, 2:55pm, 5:05pm, 7:20pm*, 10:00pm
Q&A’s with co-producer Matthew Stillman Fri. (2/5), Sat. (2/6)  and Sun. (2/7) following 7:20pm!!
Phoenix, Harkins Valley Art (509 S. Mill Ave.) – starts today (2/5) for one week run!
Showtimes Daily: 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 6:05pm, 8:25pm
Los Angeles, Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex (1332 2nd Street) – This weekend only (2/6 & 2/7))
Showtimes: 11:00am on the 6th and 7th

World leaders pledge to end poverty at Davos. At least when The End Of Poverty? partners with the YesMen on a diabolically clever Davos action! Close examination of the fake website and video manipulations reveals outrageous, elaborate subterfuge.