MDM wins Audience Award for Best Doc at Palm Springs IFF

Thanks to everyone who came out to support the film at the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival.  We’re honored to have been selected for the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature!  The film also screened at the Palm Springs High School Auditorium for 1000 diverse and inspired students from across the Coachella Valley.  See some photos on our Facebook page and see the writeup from the Palm Springs Desert Sun:

The audience pick for Best Documentary Feature, “The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” benefited from appearances by Ellsberg, who blew the whistle on White House lies about the Vietnam War in 1971 and moved many filmgoers to tears at his Q&As.

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3 comments

  1. nicho
    January 10, 2010 at 11:43 am

    I just saw the film in Palm Springs. Even though I lived through the period in question — as a pretty lefty anti-war activist — I was blown away by this film.

    Brilliant and powerful. It should be required viewing for every American, if for no other reason than to show them how their government regularly lies to them.

    I was so encouraged when Judith Erlich reported that they had shown the film to 1,000 high school students they day before and it had been well received.

  2. David
    January 12, 2010 at 9:14 pm

    I also recently saw the film in Palm Springs and share a similar response to nicho. I think this may be the best documentary I have ever seen, and I have viewed many. Should appeal to the mainstream by showing how even someone deep inside the belly of the Pentagon can respond gradually to conscience and develop respect for the right of the American people to know the truth. Complements another excellent film “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” based on Norman Solomon’s book by the same title. It also exposes a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq.

  3. Kate
    January 18, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    I am proud of what Daniel Ellsberg, and Congressman McCloskey did at a time when it was not popular to take such a stand. I worked for Congressman Mccloskey, so I admit I am biased. It was an amazing time to be in Washington DC.
    Where there is conflict, let there be resolutions, where there are problems, let there be solutions. Where you are challenged, look always for the highest good of all concerned at all times. A sentiment born by these men. Bless them.