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Workshop: A class in Shotcut video editing by David Cox

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 »

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) .