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This is What Democracy Looks Like

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Producer(s)	Jill Freidberg, Rick Rowley
Director(s)	Jill Freidberg, Rick Rowley
Release Date	2000
Runtime	72 min
Format(s)	video
Language(s)	English, Korean, Spanish
Youth Media	no

Film Description

A co-production of the Independent Media Center and Big Noise Films, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE is 72-minute documentary capturing the events of the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle. Edited from the footage of over 100 video activists, the film marks a turning point in collaborative filmmaking and achieves a scope and vision possible only through the lenses of 100 cameras.

With a driving soundtrack by Rage Against the Machine, DJ Shadow, and Cypher Ad, and narration by Susan Sarandon and Michael Franti, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE delivers an intensely political and emotional account of a week that changed the world.