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Anthem Film Festival Reviews: Freedom – Economic, Personal and Political
Freedom can be attacked by regulation, medication and tanks. These films explored each of those methods
Read More »Anthem Film Review: Three Films Out of Iran
Three films chosen for this year’s Anthem Libertarian Film Festival were created in Iran. Film festival director Jo Ann Skousen said how glad she was to have these submissions, given the risks filmmakers took making the films.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: ‘No Safe Spaces’ Redux and Grand Prize, Too
It takes a long time to perfect a film. Last year, the producers of No Safe Spaces brought it to the Anthem Film Festival to get feedback on their work-in-progress. This year, they were back at Anthem with a “95% done version.” But, as true creatives, they were still open to suggestions for improvements. Not many improvements will likely be needed, as the film won the Anthem Grand Prize for director Justin Folk and producer Mark Joseph.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival Review: North Korea Nightmare and China Fears
“Go to where the light is” may seem a strange directive for someone seeking to escape from a totalitarian regime until one sees a photo of North Korea and its neighbors taken from a satellite. Yeonmi Park’s tale of her escape reveals that not only is the darkness physical, but spiritual as well.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: ‘Democracy Through the Looking Glass: Media & Politics in the Post-Truth Era’
Alice had to step through the looking glass to discover a strange world where everything was backwards and made no sense. Filmmaker Kevin Bowe only had to go to New Hampshire during the 2015 presidential primary. His film, Democracy Through the Looking Glass: Media & Politics in the Post-Truth Era, screened at the Anthem Film Festival, part of FreedomFest. FreedomFest, a libertarian political and financial conference, now in its tenth year, bills itself as the worlds “largest gathering of free minds."
Read More »Anthem Film Festival Review: ‘I Am, or How Jack Became Black’
"I Am, or How Jack Became Black" challenges current thinking and vested interests regarding America’s attitudes about race.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: Two Experiments with a European Twist
At this year’s Anthem Film Festival, two films with a continental twist played games with the minds of the audience: "May Fifteenth in Paris" and "Re-Evolution."
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Lenny Bruce, Gilbert Gottfried, and Penn Jillette vs. the Outrage Mob in ‘Can We Take a Joke’
We are reaching peak crazy. There are two possible outcomes. We get trampled or the rest of us wake up and start fighting the people who are trying to stifle free speech.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Do Right-Wingers Have a Sense of Humor?
Do right-wingers have a sense of humor? You'd be less surprised to both laugh and survive at the Anthem Film Festival.
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