It’s a Great Day for Conscience!
We are so honored to be included among the five docs nominated for the 2010 Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature! This is a wonderful opportunity to spread awareness about Daniel Ellsberg’s amazing story and inspire new generations of whistleblowers. Thanks to the Academy and all our supporters!
You can continue your support by donating and spreading the word….
As a history lesson, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith’s enthralling new documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, is as solid as a textbook, stitching together old broadcast footage, first-person testimony, tart excerpts from the Nixon White House tapes, and noirish recreations into riveting, revelatory political drama.
With exceedingly well-crafted and intelligent interviews, deft, expertly-paced editing by Michael Chandler, Lawrence Lerew and Goldsmith, and a tightly written script by Lerew, Goldsmith, Ehrlich and Chandler, The Most Dangerous Man in America should be required viewing for every citizen in this nation. The film opens at the Cinema Village in New York this Friday. Check here for opening dates in theaters in other cities.
This fascinating subject matter allows the filmmakers to create a documentary that is at times reminiscent of Man on Wire and The Fog of War both in tone and filmmaking prowess, and it’s equally as entertaining and informative in telling the story about a man whose legacy in helping end the Vietnam …
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.
We are screening in Berlin on December 2 at 9:15pm at the Kino Arsenal Saal 1 as part of the One World Berlin Festival.
And in Warsaw, Poland on December 5-6 as part of the Watch Docs / Human Rights in Film Festival. Director Judith Ehrlich will be on hand at both events.
Also, from December 10 – January 2, we’ll be screening at Time and Space Limited in Hudson, NY.
After being invited to IDFA’s Central Pitch last year, we were honored to return with our film in the main competition and win the Special Jury Award this year.
The jury awarded the special jury prize to this documentary for its comprehensive chronicle of one man’s battle to end the war in Vietnam. This portrait of Daniel Ellsberg is important in every sense and particularly now, inspirational. It is a work of the highest craft and execution, that tells a riveting story while underscoring the lasting significance of Ellsberg’s most timely subversion.
The 15 documentary features on the Academy’s Short List were recently announced. Congratulations to all 15 films!
The film will be screening at the Huntington, Long Island Cinema Arts Centre to celebrate the World March for Peace. There will be a live webcast with either Daniel Ellsberg or Director Rick Goldsmith. Tickets can be purchased at Brown Paper Tickets.
The 10th annual Ojai-Ventura International Film Festival kicks off on November 5th with a special screening event of “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.”
We were honored to be presented with the Audience Award at MVFF! Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg, Pete McCloskey, and Mike Gravel were all there for the screening and panel discussion sponsored by the New York Times. Thanks for a great festival!
Lyn & Norman Lear, Jodie Evans and Max Palevsky, Paul and Deborah Haggis, Senator George McGovern, Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins, Stanley & Betty Sheinbaum, Mike Stoller and Corky Hale Stoller…
together with
Susan Adelman & Claudio Llanos, Cindy Asner, Ed Asner, Marilyn & Alan Bergman, Theresa and Blase Bonpane, Julie Christie & Duncan Campbell, Dianna Cohen & Jackson Browne, Richard and Shari Foos, Claire Greensfelder, David & Carolee Krieger, Tom Hayden & Barbara Williams, Sara Nichols, Martin & Janet Sheen, Paula Weinstein, and Jamie Wolf…
invite you to the LA premiere of “The Most Dangerous Man in America.”
Tickets and info here:
www.codepinkalert.org/ellsberg
You can join us for the film–tickets are $40/person–or you can support the film and attend a reception as well for $240/person ($400/pair.) The reception price includes a ticket to the film.
The West Coast premiere screening begins at 6:30pm. Dan and Patricia Ellsberg and filmmakers Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith will appear for an exciting Q&A session after the screening. The Ellsbergs and filmmakers will continue on to the reception, which will follow immediately.
MDM opens on September 23, at the Laemmle Monica 4-plex in Santa Monica (just a few blocks from the Rand Corporation). It will play through October 1, which is the 40th anniversary of the day Daniel Ellsberg began copying the Pentagon Papers, in 1969. Hope to see you there!
Laemmle’s Monica 4-plex
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica, 90401
310-394-9741
