RELEASE: "i" community premeire at NYCs Blue Stocking on July 20
July 12, 2006:
Radical Media Organizations, Radical Media Makers, Radical Documentaries: 7:00pm July 20th @ Blue Stockings
Contact: Amy Dalton at 267-974-0624
Local Contact: Amy Wolf at 917-847-4992
New York City and National Community Premiere of “i” a feature-length documentary produced by Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia of Indymedia Argentina. The film will also be screened with The Indypendent, a short film by Amy Wolf about New York City’s premiere radical newspaper. Reception and discussion with the filmmakers will follow at Blue Stockings in this special pre-tour engagement. Thursday, July 20th @ 7PM, $5 Suggested Donation.
“i” is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists — Indymedia. The is 83-minute documentary follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a whirlwind of political upheaval.
According to Naomi Klein, “i” “positively vibrates with the energy and creativity of the movement it documents. Beautiful, intellectual, riotous, it fits in no box (and no blurb)—just see it!”
Produced and directed by independent filmmakers Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia, “i” builds on a documentary short they made about Argentina called Eye of the Storm. “i” focuses in on the particular role that role that grassroots media production played during this time of crisis and upheaval. The film’s structure and production are also an embodiment of this media model: Footage was shot with mostly consumer equipment, includes clips from many grassroots reports including several produced out of the NYC Independent Media Center, and much of the editing work took place at the NYC-IMC.
Lyon and Ingoglia will attend this special pre-tour engagement, and they extend a special invitation to independent media makers and activists to stay afterward for a discussion of the film and its distribution strategy. A screening tour, to launch this fall and extend into the spring, will engage students, community activists, and independent media-makers in conversation about the role of local identity, communication, and network-building in today’s social movements.
Bluestocking is located at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington. By train: 1 block south of the F train's 2nd Avenue stop and just 5 blocks from the JMZ-line's Essex / Delaney Street stop. For more Information, visit http://www.bluestockings.com/events.html or call 212-777-6028
For more information or to view the trailer, visit
Press inquiries, contact Amy Dalton at 267-974-0624
To book a screening and/or speaking engagement, contact Jen Angel at jenangel@riseup.net, 419-410-7745