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Joe Public Films

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About Me

Joe Public Films, LLC produced "Out of Balance", which has been seen around the world at 40+ film festivals, on LinkTV, and soon on Telesur Internacional! Home DVD in the United States is through CInequest Online, and international distribution is now through LongTale.Joe Public Films is currently working on several new projects including a documentary about Combatants for Peace-- a group of former fighters from Israel and Palestine who have formed a group to work together towards a nonviolent resolution to the struggle in that region.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Movies:

anything by frederick wiseman, errol morris, michael moore, john cassavetes, john pilger. "the panama deception", "cinema paradiso", lots of scorcese's stuff-- "raging bull", "taxi driver"...

Television:

free speech tv, link tv, bill moyers

My Blog

Out of Balance wins Best Feature Length Film, Environmental Preservation category at Artivist

Out of Balance won an award at the Artivist Film Festival last weekend! The festival takes place at the historic Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The festival will also screen a selection of f...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:25:00 PST

CINEQUEST TAKING PRE-ORDERS FOR OUT OF BALANCE!

Cinequest, Inc. is taking pre-orders for the Out of Balance DVD, and will release it on November 6. The distribution company will make Out of Balance available at stores across the US, as well as onli...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:17:00 PST

Only $10.26 billion for ExxonMobil last quarter : (

Sad news today, on the financial front: ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company announced its latest quarterly revenues: $10.26 billion. The figure indicates a 1% drop in profits f...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:52:00 PST

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Burning Man We Go

Long, long ago, a fellow speaker/driver on the Remembering Omran Bus Tour told me about Burning Man. Mike Miles and his family run the Anathoth Catholic Worker Farm in Luck, Wisconsin, and Mike had be...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:33:00 PST

Why the Silence

The national tour ended several days ago, and for me it actually ended a couple of days early. Me and the van rolled into Chicago on April 14, with three screenings of Out of Balance in the next two d...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Wed, 02 May 2007 09:43:00 PST

Rapid City Roars Into the Lead!

While it's true that audience numbers aren't everything when it comes to film screenings, it was very gratifying to show Out of Balance to a packed house at the Elks Theater in Rapid City, South Dakot...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:10:00 PST

Happy Easter, You Biogreasel Van, You

It's Easter, and I'm hanging out in a cafe in Great Falls, Montana. That is not a bad thing. The parts of Montana I've seen are beautiful (as I heard they were). I'm here because the van needs a new t...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:52:00 PST

Windmills

While I was in Houston showing Out of Balance, one of the organizers mentioned that on Fox "News" last Sunday, they were dissing the idea of human induced climate change and sarcastically talking abou...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:38:00 PST

Houston, I think we have a problem...

Well, here I am in the home--- oh, wait, the FORMER home of Halliburton, the one company that has benefitted the most from the fiasco in Iraq. You may heave heard they recently announce that they are ...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:36:00 PST

Baton Rouge:

In Baton Rouge, I met Willie, who worked for the Attorney General's office for 27 years. He was asked to retire after being detained by local officials and ExxonMobil guards for standing on a public s...
Posted by Joe Public Films on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:17:00 PST