Hi Rehad.
 
I`d like to know about the fee at the door, how much is it going to be to
gowatch the film?
 
Regards,

Daluxolo Moloantoa

--- On Thu, 6/19/08, rehad <rehad@...> wrote:

From: rehad <rehad@...>
Subject: [moviezone] cyber horizons
To: moviezone@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 10:07 AM






For the trailer please click

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=opnTeM24O5E

You chuse: the future is free will be screened as follows :

Johannesburg : Nu Metro Hyde Park

Wednesday, 25 June at 20h30, followed by Q&A

Friday, 27 June at 18h30

Sunday, 29 June at 15h00, followed by Q&A

Cape Town : Nu Metro V and A Waterfront

Monday, 7 July at 20h30, followed by Q&A

Friday, 11 July at 18h30

You Chuse Synopsis

Directed by Anita Khanna, Rehad Desai

"When we first heard about the Internet we thought it was all about pop up
spam and dog food." Jimmy Wales, founder of the online information bank,
Wikipedia.

New media, is, as we speak, revolutionizing the way we live. Not only has
the Internet changed the rules for ownership and control of global knowledge
and culture, it has given us, the little people, the ability to shape that
knowledge and culture - to be producers and not just consumers of knowledge.
Far from new media simply being the means by which we save paper (emails)
and sell Viagra (advertising) , a place to stick funny videos of our pets
(You Tube) or to check up on our exes (Facebook), the bursting, limitless,
technology and it's explosion on the ground has the ability to narrow the
economic gap between rich and poor nations. And before you say "What!"
here's why people in the New Media Democracy Movement are making these grand
claims.

Before this thing we now know as the Internet was even a twinkle in a nerd's
eye, there was a time when no one was too interested in producing,
reproducing, owning and controlling knowledge. Except of course,
universities and people in white coats hidden in labs in research and
development sections of large companies. Similarly, everyone accepted that
if you wrote a book, or recorded a hit album, it was natural right and
proper that said work should be owned by one of the few publishing companies
that would hold the rights to your work. This was a time when industrial
goods dominated the global economy.

But in the digital age, knowledge itself has become critical to economic and
human development. It has become the key commodity of the 21st century. In
this era of new colonialism, where knowledge and not land, is a contested
territory, most people are relegated to consumers and rely on 'imports' of
knowledge and culture from richer economies.

This is a film essentially about development, so it would be good to mention
right here and right now - in case it hasn't crossed your mind already, that
most of these universities, giant companies and publishing houses are
operating from the northern hemisphere and that the rules for global
knowledge are set by bodies such as the World Trade Organisation and the
World Intellectual Property Organisation. Their agendas are set not by the
governments they are supposed to represent, but by big business.

Oh dear, we're getting political and a minute ago you were reading about the
internet, but you try making a film about development that doesn't make you
red in the face at the unfairness of trade! You see, the copyright and
patent laws that affect our access to information and culture are carefully
designed specifically to provide the legal framework for the technologically
more advanced North to dominate access to knowledge. All of this has direct
and serious development implications for the less developed South.
Proprietary rights to knowledge serve to exclude whole sets of people from
using the information they need to get ahead. That is, us and the rest of
the continent of Africa. It sucks.

The movement, that has mushroomed in Brazil and India and is yet to take off
Africa, calls for a radically new framework within which to share all
existing knowledge. Central to this is the notion of a new collectively
owned knowledge produced for the welfare of all rather than for the profit
of a few. Through vehicles such as Free and Open Source Software Movement,
better known as FOSS and Creative Commons, it is happening, and it is
unstoppable. And terms such as Piracy are being slung in the recycle bin.

It's all very well, but there is a huge challenge for Africa in getting up
to speed with the quality public infrastructure needed to compete with
higher income countries. Across the continent, the cost of telecoms,
Internet and Broadband are off the scale.

What we call the digital divide in Africa is no less than a form of digital
apartheid where the lack of connectivity and necessary basic infrastructure
prevents businesses and education from getting access to the tools and
knowledge that people in the West have come to live their lives by.

At a time when the gap between rich and poor nations is widening fast,
governments and donors have a crucial role to play in stimulating economic
development and taking the continent into the 21st century by putting
Broadband on the top of their lists (along with food, housing and
electricity of course). For African nations to even begin to compete with
the rest of the world, they must become producers and not just consumers of
knowledge. The Internet gives us the means to do just that. It's called the
sharing economy and you can access it on a screen near you.

"Imagine a world where everyone has access to the complete sum of all human
knowledge." (Jimmy Wales, Brazil, 2006).

Anita Khanna, June 2008.

Rehad Desai

Uhuru Productions/ Tri Continental Film Festival

Tel +27 11 403 8438

Fax+27 11 403 8499

Pyshical Address

10th Floor, Sable Centre, 41 De Korte Street,

Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

Postal Address

PO Box 1003,

Auckland Park 2006

websites: uhuruproductions. co.za - 3continentsfestival .co.za

http://filmmakers- against-racism- blogspot. com

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