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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 13th  7:30 pm  Station 40 (3030b 16th st. & Mission)  $5 
 (benefit for S40)  An evening with the Guerilla News Network (GNN)  
 producer and director Ian Inaba  and animation artist Anson Vogt (Mosh 
 Eminem)  The evening will include a screening of GNN's first full length 
 documentary, BattleGround: 21 Days at Empire's Edge, recent shorts and 
 music videos followed by a discussion with those behind GNN.     
 BattleGround: 21 Days at Empire's Edge  In late 2003, two filmmakers from 
 the Sundance award-winning Guerrilla News Network spent three weeks on the 
 frontlines of the simmering guerrilla war in Iraq, gathering intelligence, 
 dodging bullets, and capturing the untold stories of what has become the 
 world’s most covered, and misunderstood, conflict.  BattleGround is an 
 intensely emotional journey that will challenge the orthodoxies of Left and 
 Right, and highlight the humanity of all sides of the conflict. 
 BattleGround is a critical film for anyone who wants to understand the 
 powerful forces that are sucking America deeper and deeper into a Middle 
 Eastern quagmire.  BattleGround recently won t he Silver Hugo Award for 
 documentaries at the Chicago International Film Festival.  Ian Inaba  Ian 
 is a writer, producer and director. Ian has a wide range of experience in 
 media creation, technology production as well as marketing and business 
 development. He brings this wealth of experience to all of his productions, 
 from music videos and documentary films, to investigative reports and 
 next-generation technology projects. Over the past four years Ian has 
 transformed from a strategic advisor and creative consultant to a director 
 and producer of highly controversial and informative media projects. Most 
 recently, he directed the music video for Eminem's "Mosh" and contributed 
 to GNN's first book True Lies. His GNN blog, Earning Man, can be found 
 here.  Ian has served as the CEO of Switch Technologies a technology and 
 media development group in Berkeley, Ca. He was also previously a software 
 executive for Check Point Software Technologies (NASD: CHKP) and an 
 investment banker for Robertson, Stephens and Company. He is a graduate of 
 the School of Engineering and Wharton School of Business at the University 
 of Pennsylvania.  History of GNN  GNN was co-founded by Stephen Marshall 
 and Josh Shore in the summer of 2000. The partners first joined forces at 
 MTV (Josh had brought Stephen in to consult on some radical television 
 ideas for the station) when they finally realized that the mainstream 
 networks would never allow their hi-impact brand of television content and 
 design to reach prime-time. GNN's inaugural project was a NewsVideo called 
 The Diamond Life. Completed in the fall of 2000, the video features the 
 music of Peter Gabriel and was produced in conjunction with his non-profit 
 organization, WITNESS.  Shortly after, GNN rounded out the core partnership 
 with reporter Anthony Lappé; and investment banker-turned-producer Ian 
 Inaba. Since 2000, GNN has grown from its critical mass audience from 
 approximately an initial 300 unique visitors/day to an average of 25,000 
 and a high of over 300,000. Their first DVD compilation, Ammo For The 
 Info-Warrior (play trailer: broadband, mediumband) features NewsVideos that 
 have received hundreds of thousands of views on the net and been shown in 
 film festivals and on television networks around the world. Among them is 
 the Sundance-award winning short, Crack The CIA and the 2003 Media That 
 Matters Film Festival Media Activism Award winner, Copwatch. In 2003, they 
 produced AfterMath, a 30-min. documentary investigating the unanswered 
 questions surrounding 9/11. Since its release, AfterMath has played in 
 festivals and at public venues across the United States and Europe and has 
 been translated into four languages.  GNN has also collaborated with and 
 produced politicized music videos for artists such as Ad Rock (Beastie 
 Boys), dead prez, Chronic Future, Eminem and 50 Cent.  GNN's music video 
 for Eminem's politically-charged song, Mosh, hit number one on MTV's TRL 
 the day it was released in October 2004. New York magazine called it "one 
 of the most important pieces of mainstream dissent since the 60s."  GNN's 
 first book, True Lies (Plume) hits the shelves in October 2004.      
 Station 40 is an intentional community of the arts where we aim to 
 contribute to the self-empowerment of communities challenging the status 
 quo both on a local and global scale. We believe in autonomy, ecology, 
 equality and freedom in a world devoid of hierarchy and oppression, 
 specifically those rooted in patriarchy, racism and class. We recognize 
 that self-empowerment is best achieved by communication and the education 
 of both the mind and the heart. To this end we offer Station 40 as a 
 resource to all who are interested in this common pursuit.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/11/62813.php
SUMMARY:An evening with the Guerilla News Network (GNN)
LOCATION:3030b 16th street & Mission
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/11/62813.php
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