David Cox, award-winning filmmaker, offers a class in Shotcut video editing. Shotcut is a free video editing tool that runs on Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Using freely available content from the Internet, Cox will demonstrate the use of Shotcut in the context of Continuity Editing (standard narrative film cutting) Montage editing (making montage sequences)… Read more »
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Anti-Fascist Film Series: The Great Dictator

Five INSPIRING Films of People Power and Democracy Overthrowing Fascism, June 27 – August 1 Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator is a bold, award-winning satire that mocks Hitler and Mussolini, delivering a powerful anti-fascist message at the outbreak of WWII—Hollywood’s only prewar film to openly ridicule the Axis leaders, (USA 1940).
Anti-Fascist Film Series: No

Five INSPIRING Films of People Power and Democracy Overthrowing Fascism, June 27 – August 1 NO is based on Chile’s 1988 referendum, where citizens, defying fear and repression, voted to end Pinochet’s 15-year dictatorship. A bold campaign and mass mobilization led to a historic victory that helped restore democracy, (Chile 2012) .