I had the pleasure recently of working with a talented film maker called Ryan JW Smith, and his partner/producer, Brianna.
Brianna is an artist by training, and also a mean hand at producing. Ryan seems a bit of a renaissance man - film maker, poet, writer, actor. In fact, he wrote a play called "New World Order" in, I believe, iambic pentameter, and performed it to packed audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe a couple of years ago, and recently had a short film called "Army Strong" screened at a Polish film festival.
Anyway, they are in the middle of making a feature-length film about the post-apocalyptic, post-9/11 world we all share - the lies of intelligence and government, the illegal wars, the erosion of our democratic rights. Just the sort of light material that I like to work with - and certainly what I think is of vital importance.
Here's a trailer Ryan and Brianna cut from my interviews:
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