Newsletter date: 11 October 2013
Contents:
* 'concerned Australians': John Pilger's film "UTOPIA"
* Café Whispers: Notes from London [Featuring John Pilger's documentary 'Utopia']
* Economic Voice: 'Utopia' by John Pilger released in UK on 15th November
* A new John Pilger film, Utopia, to be released in UK cinemas in November
* 'CONCERNED AUSTRALIANS': JOHN PILGER'S FILM "UTOPIA"
- Announcement
'concerned Australians': John Pilger's film "UTOPIA"
http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
October 2013: "The Premiere of Utopia was held at the London National Film Theatre (BFI South Bank) on Thursday 3 October 2013. A large crowd attended the screening and many signed a message calling for Treaties to be negotiated between Aboriginal Nations and the Australian Government. Utopia is John Pilger's new feature documentary. In his new film Utopia, John says that until white Australia negotiates a genuine Treaty with indigenous Australia, it can never claim its own nationhood. ... "
- Related Facebook
Facebook: Utopia - A film by John Pilger
https://www.facebook.com/Johnpilgerutopia
* CAFE WHISPERS: NOTES FROM LONDON [FEATURING JOHN PILGER'S DOCUMENTARY 'UTOPIA']
- Opinion
Café Whispers: Notes from London
https://cafewhispers.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/notes-from-london/
6 Oct 13: " ... after seeing the new John Pilger documentary at it’s premier on Thursday night I felt I had to post about it. The documentary is called "Utopia" and is a sad statement on the way that we treat the first nation people in Australia. There are so many shocking moments (and they were moments that elicited gasps of horror from the audience). In the documentary he questions whether Australia has inherited apartheid from South Africa? And why the rest of the world does not condemn us?"
* ECONOMIC VOICE: 'UTOPIA' BY JOHN PILGER RELEASED IN UK ON 15TH NOVEMBER
- Review
Economic Voice: 'Utopia' by John Pilger released in UK on 15th November
http://www.economicvoice.com/utopia-by-john-pilger-released-in-uk-on-15t...
26 Sep 13: "One of the most extraordinary films about Australia is soon to be released in the UK. This is Utopia, an epic production by the Emmy and Bafta winning film-maker and journalist John Pilger. Utopia is a vast region in northern Australia and home to the oldest human presence on earth. 'This film is a journey into that secret country,' says Pilger in Utopia. 'It will describe not only the uniqueness of the first Australians, but their trail of tears and betrayal and resistance - from one utopia to another'." Author: Economic Voice Staff
* A NEW JOHN PILGER FILM, UTOPIA, TO BE RELEASED IN UK CINEMAS IN NOVEMBER
- Announcement
John Pilger website: A new John Pilger film, Utopia, to be released in UK cinemas in November
http://johnpilger.com/articles/a-new-john-pilger-film-utopia-to-be-relea...
25 Sep 13: "Has the 'lucky country' inherited South African apartheid? And how could this happen in the 21st century? What role has the media played? Utopia is both a personal journey and universal story of power and resistance and how modern societies can be divided between those who conform and a dystopian world of those who do not conform. Utopia draws on people and places Pilger first filmed 28 years ago during his long association with the indigenous people of his homeland. The evidence he produces is often deeply moving and shocking."
- Related Announcement
Inquiring Minds: Utopia: "Interned in often rat-infested cells, almost 60 per cent of Western Australia’s young prisoners are Aboriginal - out of 2.5 per cent of the population… John Pilger via Dave B.
http://inquiringminds.cc/utopia-interned-in-often-rat-infested-cells-alm...
30 July 13: "A new John Pilger film on Australia, Utopia, commissioned by ITV and backed by the UK company, Network Distributing, and produced by Dartmouth Films, will be delivered in the summer in Britain, and broadcast worldwide near the end of the year and early 2014. "Interned in often rat-infested cells, almost 60 per cent of Western Australia’s young prisoners are Aboriginal - out of 2.5 per cent of the population… Their rate of incarceration is five times that of apartheid South Africa.""
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