New Video: Teamwork Makes The Dream Work

Bikes 4 Life​ volunteers came together recently to prepare over 1,000 bikes to donate for a new project in Pakistan with The Akram Foundation - TAF​, and for their ongoing work in Northern Uganda.

Filmed at VISA Global Logistics​, major sponsor of  +Bikes 4 Life By #SemperCrux

Screening at Columbia University Oct 4

A Brilliant Genocide / Another Fine Mess
Film Screening and Book Release Talk

 

Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs will screen the powerful documentary A Brilliant Genocide which exposes the true story behind the rise of the brutal warlord Joseph Kony and the Ugandan government's brutal campaigns against the Acholi people. The one hour film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring:

Helen C. Epstein, whose Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror explores the US relationship with Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and his involvement in five violent conflicts that erupted shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the Horn and Great Lakes regions of Africa. She teaches at Bard College and Columbia's School of Public and International Affairs and writes frequently for the New York Review of Books and other publications.

Ogenga Otunnu, an Associate Professor of History at DePaul University whose two volume study, Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda (Palgrave 2016,2017) is the only academic work covering Uganda's entire history. He is an expert on the causes and consequences of forced migration, humanitarian emergencies and Africa and Black Diaspora studies.

Milton Allimadi, who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is publisher of Black Star News. He comes from Uganda and appears in A Brilliant Genocide.

Date: 

October 4, 2017 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs
Room 1501
420 W 118th St #1410
New York, NY 10027 

See: http://www.ias.columbia.edu/event/brilliant-genocideanother-fine-mess

Worldwide TV Broadcast of A Brilliant Genocide This Weekend Only

LIVE WEB AND WORLDWIDE TV  BROADCAST OF A BRILLIANT GENOCIDE TODAY AND THIS WEEKEND ONLY with RT (Russia Today) 

The first broadcast starts in 1.5 hours from now!

Please check www.rt.com/schedule for updates over the weekend to confirm our airing times.  All times are in GMT! You can watch live from the website or phone app, or on Cable / Foxtel on the RT (Russia Today Global News Channel).

This is the last opportunity to see this film on worldwide TV. Don’t miss out.

Todays Screening on RT - March 3:

10:30am GMT  

9.30pm Australia (AEST)

12:30am Uganda

6:30am - New York

3:30pm GMT

5:30am Uganda

11:30am - New York

5:30pm GMT

07:30am Uganda

1:30pm - New York

Watch on live streaming here if you don't have cable TV:  https://www.rt.com/on-air/

Follow our Twitter and Facebook accounts as ahead of every broadcast we will be posting updates and reminders! 

www.facebook.com/abrilliantgenocide

www.twitter.com/acholigenocide

March 4 Broadcast Times in GMT 

(times may likely change slightly so please check www.rt.com/schedule tomorrow)

01:30am (Aus 12:30pm)

06:30am (Aus 5:30pm)

08:30am (Aus7:30pm)

9:30am (Aus 8:30pm)

14:30pm (Aus 01:30am)

19:30pm (Aus 08:30am)

March 5 Broadcast Times in GMT

(times may likely change slightly so please check www.rt.com/schedule tomorrow)

00:30am (Aus 11:30am)

04:30am (Aus 3:30pm)

05:30am (Aus 4:30pm)

A Brilliant ‪Genocide‪ Screening Tonight (March 1st) at #BIFF2017 (Beloit Int'l Film Festival)

A Brilliant ‪Genocide‪ is screening tonight at the Beloit International Film Festival, Wisconsin!

If Beloit is in your radar please try and attend, as we would truly love to share this important, and largely untold story with you!


Time / Venue:  7:30pm sharp at Domenico's,  547 E Grand Ave, Beloit!

FYI:  Beloit is just 2 hours drive from Chicago.

See: www.bit.ly/ABGBeloit

#EndTheSilence


www.abrilliantgenocide.com

A Brilliant Genocide - Official Selection at Beloit International Film Festival 2017 

Kizza Besigye: The People's President [Uganda]

We interviewed Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye a few years back when we were in Uganda doing research for our film, 'A Brilliant Genocide'.

We interviewed Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye a few years back when we were in Uganda doing research for our film, 'A Brilliant Genocide'.

Here's what Kizza Besigye had to say back then about the state of democracy in Uganda and the electoral process (well before the last disputed elections this February 2016... )

Photo Credit: Echwalu Photography
Video by: Atlantic Star Productions
Documentary: www.abrilliantgenocide.com

More videos and outtakes from our research at www.vimeo.com/channels/ABGmedia


CURRENT NEWS: [May 2016]

Ugandan opposition leader under house arrest to stop him holding rallies:

Kizza Besigye, who has ran for president four times and many claim was the rightful winner of this years elections, is being detained at home as police break up public rallies.

There is also a current media ban for an media outlet covering Besigye's Defiance Campaign.

A Brilliant Genocide - Documentary Film Trailer

A Brilliant Genocide - Trailer from Ebony Butler on Vimeo.

'A Brilliant Genocide' is an expose of how an African dictator has been able to commit mass murder and still get a regular audience at The White House and 10 Downing Street.

More info and details re upcoming film festival screenings at www.abrilliantgenocide.com

The Cambodian Genocide

Today we visited the Killing Fields and Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. It's a beautiful memorial site, but still a harrowing experience. To think of the millions of people that were brutally killed at the hands of the evil Khmer Rouge. A shocking part of our human history that must never be forgotten. Never again.

Documentary Sneak Peek

This clip is a sneak peek from our documentary Mad Vs Bad (working title 'Child Troopers')

For more info see www.childtroopers.com

FILM JOBS - We're Hiring!

We're looking for an assistant editor / post-production assistant and research assistant for casual work in Melbourne, working on our feature documentary, Child Troopers. 

E-mail a letter of interest along with your CV to ebony@atlanticstarproductions.com

See: www.childtroopers.com and our Facebook page for more info about the documentary.

Child Troopers 2013

In 2012 we travelled to Uganda and New Zealand to continue filming for our documentary 'Child Troopers'.

In early 2013 we will continue to travel (UK & Uganda) to find out more information and hear more stories for our film.

We are also sending a 2nd container of bikes to Uganda through our partner organisation Bikes 4 Life, helping the lives of former child soldiers and victims of war.

We wish everyone success and happiness in 2013 and hope you continue to follow our progress with Child Troopers as we enter the final stages of post production later in the year!

See www.childtroopers.com and follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/childtroopers

Peace!

Why Is the U.S. Selling Billions in Weapons to Autocrats?

Why Is the U.S. Selling Billions in Weapons to Autocrats? - By Zach Toombs, R. Jeffrey Smith, and the Center for Public Integrity | Foreign Policy

The export of American arms to countries around the world -- even those actively repressing their own citizens -- is booming.

Three nations with records of suppressing democratic dissent in the last year -- Algeria, Egypt, and Peru -- are listed in the report as recently receiving U.S. firearms, armored vehicles, and items from a category that includes chemical and riot control agents like tear gas. The State Department confirmed that U.S. tear gas was delivered to Egypt up to the end of November, but has declined to confirm it was also sent to Algeria and Peru.

The export of American arms to countries around the world -- what the State Department calls a tangible expression of American "partnership" -- is in fact booming. The commercial arms sales reviewed by the State Department reached $44.28 billion in fiscal year 2011, a $10 billion sales increase since 2010. Next year should see another increase of 70 percent, the department says.

Those sales -- plus the government-to-government arms exports overseen by the Pentagon -- make the United States the world's top provider of major conventional weapons, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Russia, France, and China followed behind. Much of the recent U.S. increase came from vastly expanded sales to Saudi Arabia, Brazil and India.

- By Zach Toombs, R. Jeffrey Smith, and the Center for Public Integrity | Foreign Policy

The Real News: 10 Recent Videos

Angelina Jolie Attends Historic Warlord Trial at the ICC

Angelina Jolie witnessed history in the making on Thursday when she attended a trial at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands.

The "Changeling" actress headed to the hearing in The Hague to observe proceedings as the case against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, who is accused of recruiting child soldiers, wrapped up.

She tells the Associated Press, "(This is) an extraordinary moment for international justice but more than that for children of the world."

Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is currently living in Scotland while her partner Brad Pitt films zombie movie "World War Z."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=96247#ixzz1WFyr6lRu

Cambodia: A State of Need

Child Troopers in Production in New York

Child Troopers director Ebony Butler has taken her human rights documentary project to the United States of America, where she has found a whole new host of supporters and interested parties.

Ebony is currently working from Hollywood Los Angeles with her local crew where she is working on Child Troopers second phase of production. She is also being mentored by some leading industry players. The impressive list of international film and TV professionals she has mustered include Shine Global CEO Mark Fennessy and Australian born, LA based director Rod Hardy. Ebony’s has 5 official mentors who have each signed on as industry specific advisors to the young director for her debut feature documentary film Child Troopers, slated for release in 2012.

As of next week Ebony will leave Los Angeles for New York and Washington DC where she has scheduled in meetings and on camera interviews with some of the world’s leading humanitarian organizations, NGO‘S, political figures and other child soldier and human rights lobby groups. The line up includes: the United Nations, Human Rights Watch,Amnesty International, OXFAM and Resolve (formerly known as Resolve Uganda). There are a number of other key players, analysts and experts in the arena of international and African politics, American foreign policy and geopolitics set to meet with Ebony over the next month to discuss her film and offer unique insights into the conflict in Uganda and beyond.

We will be back with more information about the progress Ebony and her crew are making soon.

Excited times ahead so stay tuned and if you like what we are doing please sign up to our blog and share this with friends or on your favorite social networking site!

Please also join us on twitter @atlanticstar233 and on facebook at facebook.com/childtroopers

Friends and supporters we thank you for your dedication & ongoing support of our work and we hope you can help us get the word out about Child Troopers and our sister project Bikes 4 Life.

We search tirelessly to find answers and solutions for peace and the protection of our worlds most vulnerable women and children and we always need extra people to help with our cause! SO if you are interested in joining our advocacy, social media, design, PR or fundraising team please shoot us an email or give us a call…  Or if you have a special something that you think would be good for our campaign, and you’d like to share it with us, feel free to email us atinfo@atlanticstarproductions.com and give us the low down!

Remember: PEACE is the New Frontier AND The Truth is Out There!