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- Crew
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Trailer
Synopsis
Shadows Of Liberty reveals the extraordinary money and power behind the news media dictating censorship, cover‐ups and corporate control.
Filmmaker Jean‐Philippe Tremblay takes an intrepid journey through the dark corridors of the American media landscape where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades their overwhelming influence has distorted journalism and compromised its values.
In highly revealing stories, renowned journalists, activists and academics give insider accounts of a broken media system. Controversial news reports are suppressed, people are censored for speaking out, and lives are shattered as the arena for public expression is turned into a private profit zone.
Tracing the story of media manipulation through the years, Shadows Of Liberty poses a crucial question: why have we let a handful of powerful private corporations write the news? We’re left in no doubt, ‘…what will save us is when we really know what’s going on, media not filtered through the lens or the microphone of a corporation.’ Amy Goodman
Crew
JEAN-PHILIPPE TREMBLAY
Director/ Producer / Writer
Jean-Philippe is from Jonquière, Québec, and has recently settled in Montreal after living abroad for 14 years. His first feature film as writer, director, & producer is Shadows Of Liberty, it’s been presented in 30 International film festivals, it toured independently in all 50 US States, it has been distributed in 25 territories, & nominated for a number of awards including most valuable documentary of the year at Cinema For Peace, Berlin, Germany, 2013. Jean-Philippe graduated with a B.A. Law and Film Studies from Carleton University 1995, & in 2006 he completed an MA Film Production at the London Film School where his graduation film was selected at the 50th London Film Festival. That same year, he joined Doc Factory, a branch of The Bertha Foundation, as one of three directors until 2015. The Canada Arts Council awarded him intensive film apprenticeship grant at the S.A.W. Video Media Arts Centre & in 1998 he was awarded a JumpstART grant for his short film Rock Bottom Fill. Jean-Philippe was a motion picture professional grip & gaffer from 1998 to 2001. In 1996 he created an independent documentary project entitled Journey about his extensive travels through South East Asia, and later through Pakistan called Passage, & South America called Flight. He is working on new film projects including a feature film inspired by Shadows Of Liberty in partnership with Iambic Dream Films and GPA-Films. Jean-Philippe runs Studio De Grand-Pré collective with his wife & photographer, Liv Mann-Tremblay, and their baby boy, Janou.
DAN CANTAGALLO
Co-writer / Co-producer
Daniel Cantagallo AB ’02 has specialized in cutting edge documentary films as an editor, producer and sales agent. A graduate of Harvard University and the London Film School, he co-produced/co-wrote Shadows of Liberty as well as produced for Ondi Timoner’s A Total Disruption documentary web-series. He is responsible for development, sales and acquisitions at Cargo Film whose latest releases include SEED: The Untold Story, Shingal, Where Are You? and To Be A Miss.
ARTHUR JAFA
Director of Photography
Jafa’s cinematography includes, Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash, (for which he won the cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival; Seven Songs for Malcolm X, John Akomfrah; Crooklyn, Spike Lee, Conakry Kas, Manthia Diawara, Meet the Eye, Aida Ruilova.
His writing has been published in various publications such as Black Popular Culture, edited by Gina Dent and Everything But the Burden, edited by Greg Tate.
He has exhibited art at the Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art; Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since, Contemporary Art Museum-Houston, Texas.
He has directed several films including Slowly This, Tree, Deshotten 1.0.
GREGERS SALL
Editor
Award-winning film editor specialising in fictional and documentary features. Credits include Senna, McLibel, Homeland, Drowned Out. Senna was awarded two Cinema BAFTAs – Best Documentary and Best Editing.
TANDIS JENHUDSON
Composer
Jenhudson has a dual career as a film composer and a psychiatrist. He scored the BAFTA-nominated Love You Joseff Hughes, and has written music for numerous other award-winning films. In 2011 Tandis composed the soundtrack for the feature-length film Little Stars of Bethlehem, narrated by Stephen Fry.
