Since Seattle, IMC videographers have provided video coverage in a number of ways: the IMC NEWSREAL which provides a monthly compliation of video activism from around the world; the IMC VIDEO CHANNEL which provides innovative sampling of video streaming from various IMC sites; and finally numerous IMC FEATURE VIDEO PROJECTS which provide groundbreaking street reportage and analysis via satellitecast television programming and subsequent video distribution. Copies of programs are made available for community screening and organizing

INDYMEDIA NEWSREAL is a monthly television and screening series. Each half-hour program covers actions taken in local communities, to address critical issues like air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for- profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more.

IMC VIDEO CHANNEL - WEB STREAM
Corporate TV got you down? Go ahead and kill your television, Indymedia is bringing you video on the web. Drawing footage from a grassroots network, video is pulled directly from your IMC's newswire. Upload your video and have it displayed alongside the work of activists from around the world.

IMC FEATURE VIDEO PROJECTS

IMC Video From Palestine
Recent Video shot by Indymedia activists in Palestine during the summer of 2002
Produced Summer 2002, two programs

Tape 1 Bethlehem and Jenin:
Eyewitness video from the Bethlehem area during the very first days of the unprecedented Israeli assaults on the West Bank. See the ISM (International Solidarity Movement) and other activists under fire. Includes exclusive video from Jenin Refugee camp shot in April while the camp was still under occupation! The video maker snuck thru the Israeli soldiers lines to capture verite video and interviews with camp residents, doctors, and others. This video was the very first to be shot inside the camp after the Israeli attacks.

Tape 2: Inside the Palestinian Presidential compound during the siege of April and May!
The video maker and other international activists were able to rush thru the Israeli lines and enter the compound to join PNA President Yasser Arafat and over 150 Palestinian men inside. An exclusive look at the siege from the inside! Includes a sampling of IMC and Palestinian produced video including a short 11min video from Jerusalem during this year's Jerusalem day celebrations.

How the WEF Was Won
Produced February 2002, four programs, English

Documentation of the World Economic Forum in NYC and the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in Brazil. Produced by Big Noise Tactical, NYC-IMC, and Open Human Minds

9.11
Produced September 2001, 28 minutes, English or Spanish or Italian

9.11 listens to the voices of New York City in mourning, a city coming to terms with the aftermath of events on September 11th and the potential violence of a protracted war. NYC residents respond to the tragedy with spontaneous memorials, public sites of grief and discourse where the transformation of mourning into a mobilization for peace and justice begin to emerge. 9.11 culminates with the first NYC peace march as the voices of the emergent peace movement begins to coalesce with broader globalization movement seeking economic and social justice. 9.11 offers initial critical perspectives of U.S. policy leading up to the World Trade Center attack, necessary to constructing an informed and rationalized response. The video also documents the media treatment and racial backlash against Arab-Americans and how those communities are responding.

Produced for the Independent Media Center with efforts of the NYC-IMC, Paper Tiger TV and Big Noise Tactical. Made entirely in NYC in the days following September 11th, completed and satellitecast on September 26th.

A STORM FROM THE MOUNTAIN:
The Zapatistas Take Mexico City
Produced March 2001, 72 minutes, English or Spanish

A compilation from two 58 minute IMC TV satelitecast programs documenting the events of the Zapatista caravan and their arrival to Mexico City on March 11th, 2001. This was the only thorough media coverage made available in the U.S. of the Zapatistas' long journey for justice.

Produced entirely in Mexico during the caravan and satelllitecast on March 13th, 2001. Produced for the Independent Media Center with efforts of the Big Noise Tactical, Paper Tiger TV and The Chiapas Media Project.

J20 - Not My President
Produced January 2001, 28 min., English

Re-live the Orwellion coup! On January
20th 2001, over 20,000 people converged in Washington D.C to protest the inauguration of George W. Bush. Committed to truthfully representing the depth of dissent in our country, over 2 dozen independent videographers and editors collaborated in the production of this highly engaging film from the front lines of the largest counter inaugural protests since Nixon's '72 re-election. With footage that you will never see on CNN or any major network news outlet, "Not My President" is a powerful document of a diverse and broad popular resistance in America. This film is a valuable chronicle of the unprecedented 2001 presidential election coup.
Produced by the NYC-IMC

Prague 2000 - World Bank and IMF Under Seige
Produced 2000, 55 minute, English

Description: On September 26th, 2000, activists from around the world gathered to protest the World Bank and International Monetary Fund\'s annual meeting in Prague. On the heels of persistant massive protests against global economic institutions, the protests in Prague marked the first time that trade unionists, students, anarchists, workers, pacifists, socialists, non-governmental organizations, communists, ecologists, and many other groups came together under the banner of anti-globalization and anti-capitalism. In this video, interviews with organizers, demonstrators, observers, and theorists explain this new movement for freedom and why the IMF and World Bank are "under seige".
Produced by the Prague IMC

Crashing the Party
IMC-Convention Coverage
Produced 2000, 90 minute, English

IMC documentary on the agonies and victories of organizing against the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. From the legal roadblocks activists overcame through the multiple police riots, this video covers the non-violent direct actions and the issues that brought people together. Topics include: GMOs, the IMC bomb scare, the Loews Hotel workers strike, the Mumia March, the Queers And Allies march, equal access to public transportation, and dispelling myths about anarchy. Commentators include Kevin Danaher, Anuradha Mittal, Tom Hayden and Jello Biafra.
Produced by the IMC-LA

This is What Democracy Looks Like
Produced May 2000, 70 minute, English or Spanish
At the WTO protests in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we have not seen in this country for decades. We saw peaceful protests shut down one of the most powerful institutions in the world and we saw a system dazed and frightened by the sound of our voices.

A co-production of the Independent Media Center and Big Noise Films, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE is 72- minute documentary capturing the events of the 1999 anti- WTO protests in Seattle. Edited from the footage of over 100 video activists, the film marks a turning point in collaborative filmmaking and achieves a scope and vision possible only through the lenses of 100 cameras. With a driving soundtrack by Rage Against the Machine, DJ Shadow, and Cypher Ad, and narration by Susan Sarandon and Michael Franti, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE delivers an intensely political and emotional account of a week that changed the world.

Breaking The Bank
Produced April 2000, 74 Minutes, English
After the Seattle victory that stopped the World Trade Organization in its 'fast' tracks, tens of thousands converged to challenge the International Monetary Fund and World Bank at their April 2000 meeting in Washington D.C. Once again, videomakers from the Independent Media Center were on the spot to provide the non-corporate coverage you just won't find anywhere else. "Breaking the Bank" provides informative background segments on the history and impact of the IMF and World Bank. The program features extensive coverage of the events in Washington, the street blockade tactics, the police repression, the rallies and the celebration of so many people coming together united in a common cause.

Breaking the Bank features material from the two half-hour television programs (originally satellitecast April 21st 2000) plus additional segments. Produced for the Independent Media Center by Big Noise Tactical, Changing America, Downtown Community TV, Headwaters Action Video Collective, IMC Seattle, Paper Tiger Television, Sleeping Giant Productions, Whispered Media, VideoActive, Wholesome Goodness Productions and dozens more video activists working in collaboration with the IMC-DC to bring the messages of A-16 to the rest of the world.

Showdown in Seattle:
Five Days That Shook the WTO
Produced December 1999, five 28 minute programs, English or Spanish
Features an on-the-ground, non-corporate perspective and in-depth analysis you won't find anywhere else, in addition to footage of police repression and popular resistance. Each half hour show is made up of segments shot and edited on location in downtown Seattle by an unprecedented collaboration of video producers from around the U.S. working under the umbrella of the Independent Media Center.

Produced for the Independent Media Center by Big Noise Tactical, Changing America, Headwaters Action Video Collective, IMC Seattle, Paper Tiger Television, Sleeping Giant Productions, Whispered Media, VideoActive and Wholesome Goodness Productions, working with the footage of dozens of video activists from the IMC. The programs in this series were produced daily on location in Seattle and satellitecast across the U.S on each day of the WTO ministerial.

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