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Achbar interned in Hollywood on the children's TV programme Bill Daily's Hocus Pocus Gang, followed by a three year stint in Toronto with Sunrise Films on their documentary series Spread your Wings and the CBC / Disney series Danger Bay.
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Created by two Canadian filmmakers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky's earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.
Achbar moved into independent media, working in many capacities on films, videos and books on issues ranging from nuclear lunacy, poverty, and East Timor, to the media, U. S. hegemony and corporate power.
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The project began when Achbar and Bakan met at a funeral and realized they were both interested in globalization and its impact on society.
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Until the release of The Corporation ( 2003 ), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful feature documentary in Canadian history, played theatrically in over 300 cities around the world ; won 22 awards ; appeared in more than 50 international film festivals ; and was broadcast in over 30 markets.
* In 1993, the documentary film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media ( 1992 ), directed by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, partly based upon the book, presents the propaganda model and its arguments, and a biography of Chomsky.
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.
Achbar collaborated with editor Jennifer Abbott to create Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage, a low-budget video diary by the couple known as Canada's first legally married lesbians.
* Most Popular Canadian Film: The Corporation by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
Abbott continued her collaboration with Mark Achbar in 2003 when they co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary film, The Corporation ( 2003 ), written by Joel Bakan.
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Chomsky's response to the film was mixed ; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn't communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join.
* Interview with Bakan and Achbar
In 1997, Achbar initiated a project titled The Corporation with author and University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan.
* NFB interview — Rebel with a Cause: Mark Achbar
*" The Beast with No Name: Mark Achbar and Joel Bakan with Williams Cole " The Brooklyn Rail ( Summer 2004 )
*" The Beast with No Name: Mark Achbar and Joel Bakan with Williams Cole " The Brooklyn Rail ( Summer 2004 )
In 2000, Abbott collaborated with director Mark Achbar to create Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage ( 2000 ).
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With Peter Wintonick, Achbar co-directed and co-produced Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, which was, until the release of The Corporation Canada's all-time, top-grossing feature documentary.
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Mark Achbar edited a companion book of the same name.
Mark Achbar is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for directing The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media.
Achbar is a graduate of Syracuse University's Fine Arts Film Program.
Achbar ’ s companion book to the film hit the national best-seller list in Canada.
Bakan wrote the film and book, while Achbar directed, produced and executive-produced the film.
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This film is a Hollywood rarity which features Asian Americans in a positive light, highlighting the wartime efforts of Japanese Americans on behalf of their country even while that same country interned their families in camps.
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The Haganah carried out violent attacks in Palestine, such as the liberation of interned immigrants from the Atlit camp, the bombing of the country's railroad network, sabotage raids on radar installations and bases of the British Palestine police.
After the end of World War I, the bulk of the Navy's modern ships ( 74 in all ) were interned at Scapa Flow where the entire fleet ( with a few exceptions ) was scuttled by its crews on 21 June 1919 on orders from its commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.
*** SM UC-74, a Type UC II submarine launched in 1916 and interned at Barcelona on 21 November 1918 ; surrendered on 26 March 1919 ; broken up at Toulon in July 1921
Adams was interned in March 1972, on, but was released in June to take part in secret, but abortive talks in London.
Japanese Americans residing on the West Coast of the United States were all interned, whereas in Hawaii, where more than 150, 000 Japanese Americans composed nearly a third of that territory's population, only 1, 200 to 1, 800 Japanese Americans were interned.
" Bitterenders " ( Afrikaans: Bittereinders ) who refused to pledge allegiance to the British Crown were interned on Darrell's Island and closely guarded.
All who lived on the West Coast of the United States were interned, while in Hawaii, where the 150, 000-plus Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the population, an estimated 1, 200 to 1, 800 were interned .< ref >
Of the auxiliaries, the Kamchatka, Ural and Rus were sunk on 27 May, Irtuish ran aground on 28 May, Koreya and Svir were interned in Shanghai and the Anadyr escaped to Madagascar.
The ultras found themselves back in power in favourable circumstances: Berry's wife, the duchesse de Berry, gave birth to " miracle child ", Henri, seven months after the duc's death ; Napoleon died on Saint Helena in 1821, and his son, the duc de Reichstadt, remained interned in Austrian hands.
An even earlier example of a puppet state ( as well as a vassal state ) is Wallachia, which was partially de facto ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1462 when Radu the Handsome was placed on the throne after his older brother Vlad III was banished from Wallachia and interned by Hungary.
Brodsky, arrested in 1963 and interned for social parasitism, would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature ( 1987 ) and become Poet Laureate ( 1991 ) as an exile in the US.
Etty Hillesum was interned in this camp from 30 July 1942 until 7 September 1943, when she and her family were put on a train to Auschwitz.
The German film actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson was interned at Westerbork with her family before being sent on a transport to Auschwitz.
Historically, the 36th ( Ulster ) Division trained on the estate during the first few months of the war and German prisoners of war were interned there.
In May 1940, he was interned by the British authorities as an enemy alien, before being shipped to Quebec, Canada and continued to be interned until October 1941, when he was released on parole from internment to study architecture at the University of Manitoba.
By then, 34 Tasmanian Aborigines were interned on Swan Island.
General Carleton's " solution " was brutal: thousands of starving Navajo were forced on a Long Walk of 450 miles and interned near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and much of their livestock was destroyed.
Following the German defeat in the First World War, 74 ships of the Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet were interned in Gutter Sound at Scapa Flow pending a decision on their future in the peace Treaty of Versailles.
* " Papillon " is the title of Henri Charriere's 20th Century autobiographical novel concerning a Frenchman interned on a penal colony in French Guiana, and the 1973 movie directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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