Anti-arms factory film banned in Brighton

[winjer]

Is there another London showing?

The 11th at Housmans, and the 21st I think at LARC.

 

[Biddlybee]

Can't make the 11th. What/where's LARC? (ta btw winjer)

e2a: I'm so lazy - just googled it

 

[Maurice Picarda]

They were either planning this the whole time, or, more likely, somebody had the wit to turn a problem into a huge opportunity. That person has a promising career in PR waiting for him or her in the coming years.
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I think I know Andrew Trivett and that is not a likely future scenario.

 

[Roxy641]

Hi likesfish,

pity the police aren't out there trying to catch rapists and murderers, still at least they have got their priorities correct haven't they??? After all, people that aren't hiding or running away are far easier to arrest!

Roxy641

if your advertising a film which you know is going to annoy the local police claiming its got a 15 certificate when it hasn't not a bright move

 

[Fullyplumped]

I went to see this last night, i thoroughly recommend people view it. Particularly cynics like Fullyplumped.

Well, the nearest showing for me in Glasgow will be on the 18th at the Quaker Meeting House at 38 Elmbank Crescent, behind the King’s Theatre and near Charing Cross station. I will try to get along if I can.

By the way - that venue is only about 150 yards from Strathclyde Police HQ in Pitt Street, and round the corner from the Council offices in India Street, so it will be a doddle for the jackbooted stormtroopers of state repression to grind their boots in the faces of the forces of peace and democracy. Though they probably won't bother.

 

[Dan U]

let's hope they sort out there inability to set up a projector and laptop before then

hippies eh

 

[justuname]

The film was shown in Brighton tonight, around 100 people (real figure). It was great, and I can understand why some police officers don't want it seen.

Apparently SchMovies/Smash EDO are making DVDs and it will be available soon. A speaker from Smash EDO explained that they hadn't expected the interest the film has got as a result of the police campaign to ban the film but wanted the film shown at public screenings where people can discuss it and maybe organise around the issues it raises - how much the British state backs the British arms industry and the human impact of the commodities created by the British arms industry - rather than just watch it at home.

That seems a rather sensible, and these days quite inspiring, ambition.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Torrent anyone?

I'd quite happily bung in a few quid after downloading but let's face it, I'm unlikely to make it to a screening.

 

[winjer]

They said they'd torrent it after the final cut's been lawyered, this week or next.

 

[rich!]

They said they'd torrent it after the final cut's been lawyered, this week or next.

according to the ever- <something> - SchNews, they wanted people to see it in "public", in groups, so they'd have other people to react with and get fired up.

Which makes sense.