Dear friends, supporters and colleagues,
We are delighted to be sharing the UK release plans for Amir Amirani’s cinema documentary WE ARE MANY. Tipping Point Film Fund was an early funder of the film; has supported the project over the past four and half years and is very proud of its association with this timely, moving and empowering film.
Join us for nationwide satellite screening + Q&A, hosted by Jon Snow on May 21st, or find out where the film is screening near you from May 22nd. To find out where the film is showing and to book your tickets, visit this link http://wearemany.com/cinemas/
The Film
We Are Many is the never-before-told story of the largest demonstration in human history, and how the movement created by a small band of activists changed the world. On February 15th, 2003, up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before in their lives, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. The New York Times called this movement the “Second Superpower”. How did this day come about? Who organized it?
And was it, as many people claimed, a total failure? This is not quite the story we all assumed it to be. The film has testimony from a first class list of interviewees including John Le Carre, Danny Glover, Brian Eno, Medea Benjamin, Jesse Jackson, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Mark Rylance, Damon Albarn, Leslie Cagan, Tony Benn, Lindsay German, Ken Loach, Hans Blix.
“The global protest against the Iraq War on 15 February 2003 was a pivotal moment in recent history, the consequences of which have gone unreported. Amir Amirani’s We Are Many chronicles the struggle to shift power from the old establishment to the new superpower that is global public opinion, through the prism of one historic day. I urge you to support this film in whatever way you can.”
– Oliver Stone
Spread the word, see the film and learn more about the issue.
The We Are Many website will be a resource on many levels – from story sharing to learning more about how to get involved with some of the many issues raised in the film. We at Tipping Point are also working on our in-house developed campaign focussed on runaway military spending, developed alongside our work on the film.
We hope the film can raise debate on many inter-connected issues that the Iraq War has raised, and will continue to raise – from the value of protest to political accountability; from the costs of war to the bringing of charges of war crimes to those who took us into this disastrous conflict.
“A work of beautiful rage. Provokes anger and goosebumps”
Empire
“consistently intelligent and nuanced”
Variety
“incredibly ambitious… gripping. The only film I’ve ever watched where the audience started clapping halfway through…” ★★★★★
Huffington Post
“rousing and moving, it’s a film that should be seen by the many” ★★★★☆
Radio Times
Links
Website http://wearemany.com/
Trailer: https://youtu.be/yOpa8y2TIy8
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearemanymovie
Twitter: @WeAreManyMovie
Tipping Point Film Fund was the first film funder of We Are Many, in late 2010; it was a lead partner on a Kick-starter campaign that raised $92k for the production costs and it worked with Amir throughout the fundraising, production, editing and NGO outreach period.
Amir Amirani’s film We Are Many was in the research and making for more than nine years. It addresses the illegality of the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent undermining of democratic processes, set alongside the power of public protest and mass mobilisations of the anti-Iraq war movement – a movement that was to inspire the Egyptian uprising of 2011.
“A work of beautiful rage. Provokes anger and goosebumps”
Empire
“consistently intelligent and nuanced”
Variety
“incredibly ambitious… gripping. The only film I’ve ever watched where the audience started clapping halfway through…” ★★★★★
Huffington Post
“rousing and moving, it’s a film that should be seen by the many” ★★★★☆
Radio Times
To buy tickets for the satellite event (21 May) or the general release, please visit
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, and the division of the Korean Peninsula. Yet full peace and reconciliation is far from being achieved in Northeast Asia.
Tensions between Japan, China, and the Koreas over territorial disputes, historical issues and nuclear weapons programs, exacerbated by overall regional trends of nationalism and militarism, are triggering an arms race and creating a climate of increasing mistrust among key Northeast Asian countries. The security environment in the region has been additionally complicated by the US “rebalancing” to Asia, including its strengthening of alliance in Northeast Asia. Ongoing efforts by the current Japanese administration to revise the country’s war-renouncing constitution play a further detrimental role in this regard.
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Appeal to Members of the German Bundestag:
Stop the new arms race – disarmament for a sustainable future!
Already in 2010 Ban Ki-Moon warned us: “the world is over-armed and peace is under-funded”. For 2013 the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) calculated global military expenditures of over $1.7 trillion. Hundreds of billions will be spent for the modernization of nuclear arsenals and the NATO summit in Wales decided to raise the level of its demand on member states’ military spending to 2% of their GDP. For Germany that would amount to €53 billion per year – nearly two thirds more than today. China, Russia, Brazil, India and many other states are upgrading their defence capacity as well. The global arms race enters a new round.
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“The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.” — Ban Ki-moon
Statement on the Global Day Against Military Spending (GDAMS), 13 April 2015, part of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS). The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of military spending and alternatives.
Across the EU, governments spend a total of 255 Billion euro on the military. This is grossly excessive and contributes to insecurity for many people around the world.
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On this Global Day of Action on Military Spending, 13 April 2015, Pax Christi International expresses deep concern about the scandal of excessive military spending in a world where human and ecological well-being are in dire need of investment. Figures recently published by SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, estimate world military expenditures in real terms for 2014 at roughly $ 1.8 trillion, a significant increase from the already shocking $ 1.75 trillion spent in 2013.
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Dear friends,
April sees us launch our first major Tipping Point Funding Appeal – it’s a campaign that we will run from April to June and is being done via the PATREON funding platform.
PATREON is very much about continuous support for creative projects – we are increasingly seeing our work as ‘creative activism’ and feel that this USA platform is the best place for us to showcase our work.
The Tipping Point banner (Tipping Point North South with Tipping Point Film Fund as its main activity to date) embraces support for film through cinema documentaries and occasional in-house short films; a long running film club; and a number of film focussed collaborative events. It has delivered a number public events on a variety of single issue campaigns (Palestine; tax justice; environment & breast cancer) and has also developed its own in-house campaigns (military spending; environment and breast cancer).
Forthcoming projects will continue to reflect this diverse programme of work as we continue to initiate and deliver activities of a high standard, which reach out to both the public and decision-makers alike.
We are supported primarily through grants and individual (some major) donors. As our work matures and expands, so we also want to expand our small scale individual funding base. So, we are encouraging all our friends and supporters to find out more about what we do and spread the word about out work. We know times are incredibly tough, but if you see the value in the kind of creative activism we undertake, then we would love you to think about supporting our work.
We are a small organisation, with a very small cost base, committed to ethical practise. We believe in this, that
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.’
James Baldwin
Please find out more on our PATREON PAGE. If you are considering a donation, simply click ‘open an account’ (you can use credit/debit cards or paypal) and follow directions.Have a great Easter.
Best wishes
Deborah, Kevin, Justin and all at Tipping Point
Highlights of our work
Dear friends,
April sees us launch our first major Tipping Point Funding Appeal – it’s a campaign that we will run from April to June and is being done via the PATREON funding platform.
PATREON is very much about continuous support for creative projects – we are increasingly seeing our work as ‘creative activism’ and feel that this USA platform is the best place for us to showcase our work.
Continue reading
Dear Friends,
Open Bethlehem was released across the UK, beginning on December 5th. It has been shown in London, Liverpool, York, Oxford, Bristol, Norwich, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness to full house audiences with enthusiastic feedback. There were great Q&As of Leila with Jeremy Hardy, Irvine Welsh, Paul Laverty, among others. TPFF hosted two sell-out screenings at the Lexi cinema and the Ritzy Picturehouse. The cinema release of Open Bethlehem continues in the new year around the UK. The listing of screenings in the next few months can be seen below. Don’t miss the chance to see this wonderful film in the cinema.
| You can see OPEN BETHLEHEM in the following cinemas: | ||||
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| 06 Jan | NOTTINGHAM Broadway | Screening | 19.45 | BUY |
| 06 Jan | WELWYN Garden City Cinema | Screening and Q&A (pre-screening) | 20.45 | BUY |
| 14 Jan | WELWYN Garden City Cinema | Screening | 17.50 | BUY |
| 20 Jan | CARDIGAN, Theatr Mwldan | Screening | 18.05 | BUY |
| 21 Jan | CARDIGAN, Theatr Mwldan | Screening | 18.05 | BUY |
| 22 Jan | CARDIGAN, Theatr Mwldan | Screening | 16.40 | BUY |
| 23 Jan | CARDIGAN, Theatr Mwldan | Screening | 20.35 | BUY |
| 24 Jan | CARDIGAN, Theatr Mwldan | Screening and Q&A | 20.20 | BUY |
| 02 Feb | BRIGHTON Komedia | Screening and Q&A | 21.00 | BUY |
| 03 Feb | STIRLING Macrobert | Screening | 19.00 | BUY |
| 05 Feb | PORTSMOUTH No 6 | Screening and Q&A | 19.00 | BUY |
| 08 Feb | HEXHAM Forum | Screening | BUY | |
| 08 Feb | Leominster, Playhouse | Screening | INFO | |
| 09 Feb | Gate Notting Hill | Screening and Q&A with Senior NBC News Editor Brinley Burton (via Ourscreen.com) | 21.00 | BUY |
| 11 Feb | Dartington, The Barn | Screening | 20.30 | BUY |
| 12 Feb | HEBDEN BRIDGE Picturehouse | Screening | 19.45 | BUY |
| 17 Feb | BIRMINGHAM MAC | Screening | 18.00 | BUY |
| 18 Feb | BIRMINGHAM MAC | Screening | 20.30 | BUY |
| 18 Feb | The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington | Screening | BUY | |
| 28 Feb | Ritzy Brixton | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | BUY | |
| 01 Mar | DERBY Quad | Screening and Q&A | BUY | |
| 02 Mar | Norwich Cinema City | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 21.00 | BUY |
| 03 Mar | The Courtyard, Hereford
(Borderlines Film Festival) |
Screening and Q&A | 20.00 | BUY |
| 04 Mar | BATH Chapel Arts | Screening and Q&A | 18.30 | – |
| 05 Mar | Stratford East Picturehouse | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 21.00 | BUY |
| 08 Mar | Stratford Upon Avon Picturehouse | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 18.00 | BUY |
| 09 Mar | Hackney Picturehouse | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 18.00 | BUY |
| 09 Mar | Exter Picturehouse | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 21.00 | BUY |
| 10 Mar | Coventry Showcase | Screening | TBA | – |
| 13 Mar | Salisbury Studio Theatre | Screening | TBA | – |
| 16 Mar | Edinburgh Cameo | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 21.00 | BUY |
| 18 Mar | Leicester Pheonix | Screening and Q&A | 18.30 | BUY |
| 18 Mar | Leicester Pheonix | Screening and Q&A | 18.30 | BUY |
| 18 Mar | Aberystwyth Morlan Centre | Screening | 19.00 | INFO |
| 25 Mar | Aberystwyth Arts Centre
(The Wales One World Festival) |
Screening | 20.15 | BUY |
| 26 Mar | Rhosygilwen, Pembrokeshire | Screening | 20.00 | BUY |
| 27 Mar | Hexham Forum | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 20.30 | BUY |
| 28 Mar | Stratford East Picturehouse | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 13.00 | BUY |
| 30 Mar | Hackney Picturehouse | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | 18.00 | BUY |
| 30 Mar | Duke of Yorks, Brighton | Screening (via Ourscreen.com – this screening will go ahead if enough tickets are booked. Spread the word!) | BUY | |
| 21 April | Swansea Taliesin Arts Centre | Screening | TBA | INFO |
| 22 April | Milford Haven, The Torch | Screening | TBA | INFO |
| 08 May | Grimsby Oasis Wintringham | Screening | TBA | INFO |
Dear friends, supporters, colleagues,
From Pink to Prevention –a new campaign
Save the Date for our first campaign meeting on Tuesday 27th January 6.30pm – more details at end of page
Welcome to our new campaign: From Pink to Prevention. We want to:-
Dear friends, supporters & colleagues,
As we come to the end of 2014, it’s fair to say that we would have wished to see a much more peaceful and equitable year than the one we have just witnessed.
But as long as more and more people actively engage with a variety of (inter-connected) issues – realizing that if we are to make our society better, we need to come together – there is hope for change. Inequality has been successfully challenged in the past and can be again; the war machine can (and must) be resisted; our shared environment must be protected.
So (if you’re not doing it already!) why not support campaigns challenging TTIP; or one of the anti-fracking groups; find out about the incredible Veterans for Peace UK and the BACK NHS CAMPAIGN.
Change takes time. This – in part – is the message of Open Bethlehem and its campaign. It is also at the heart of We Are Many and the story of the anti-Iraq war global peace movement. But change for the social good does, eventually, come.
It always seems impossible until it is done.
Nelson Mandela
Next year, we look forward to sharing more of our campaign work with you (developed under theTipping Point North South banner). This includes an exciting event linked to the fracking issue and Josh Fox’s powerful and disturbing Gasland 2; our follow up event to Bethlehem Unwrapped, linked to the 10th anniversary of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign; and our new campaign on the pink-washing of breast cancer.
All this, as well as ongoing plans for more screenings of Open Bethlehem (trailer) and the UK release ofWe Are Many (trailer).
Finally, as we come to the end of another year, we want to extend a very big thank you to all our film and campaign funders – grant-makers and individual donors alike. We could not do what we do without your commitment. Thank you.
Wishing you all peaceful holiday and happy New Year.
Deborah, Kevin, Justin, Ho-Chih & all at Tipping Point.
Dear friends, supporters & colleagues,
As we come to the end of 2014, it’s fair to say that we would have wished to see a much more peaceful and equitable year than the one we have just witnessed.
But as long as more and more people actively engage with a variety of (inter-connected) issues – realizing that if we are to make our society better, we need to come together – there is hope for change. Inequality has been successfully challenged in the past and can be again; the war machine can (and must) be resisted; our shared environment must be protected.
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FROM PINK to PREVENTION is a new breast cancer campaign that exposes the barriers to achieving ‘primary prevention’ – stopping the disease before it starts. Central to our campaign is one big fundamental question we seek to put to all those individuals, organisations and institutions with the power to make or to influence decisions affecting public and occupational health in general and breast cancer incidence in particular.
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Dear Friends,
The cinema release of Open Bethlehem will kickstart tomorrow December 5th at Genesis Cinema in London. The full listing of screenings in December can be found here. Book your tickets now to watch the Guardian’s ‘must-see film’ of the week:
“Leila Sansour’s documentary Open Bethlehem follows her campaign to stop occupying Israeli forces encircling her hometown with a concrete wall. Sansour’s film, which follows her attempts to unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in their desire for free access to the Holy City, is the kind of art that peace processes are built on.”
Peter Bradshaw
Watch the whole Guardian’s whole video review here.
TPFF will host 2 screenings – the first will be on this coming Sunday:
15.30pm, 07 Dec, KENSAL RISE, Lexi Cinema
18.00pm, 19 Dec, BRIXTON, Ritzy Picturehouse
We hope you can join us – experience what is a truly authentic Christmas film in cinemas across the UK this December.
Best wishes
Deborah & Leila
Dear Friends,
The cinema release of Open Bethlehem will kickstart tomorrow December 5th at Genesis Cinema in London. The full listing of screenings in December can be found here. Book your tickets now to watch the Guardian’s ‘must-see film’ of the week:
“Leila Sansour’s documentary Open Bethlehem follows her campaign to stop occupying Israeli forces encircling her hometown with a concrete wall. Sansour’s film, which follows her attempts to unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in their desire for free access to the Holy City, is the kind of art that peace processes are built on.” Peter Bradshaw
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Dear Friends,
Open Bethlehem UK cinema release December 2014
(Apologies for any cross posting!)
This film is a very personal ‘Bethlehem story’ which encompasses the history of, as well as the present-day reality for, the town of Bethlehem and its citizens as they cope with life under occupation. It is a film about family, adversity, hope and, of course, Christmas.
So, if you want to see an authentic Christmas film this year, Open Bethlehem (trailer) is for you.
“One of the most remarkable and moving documentaries I have seen. The tragedy
of the Palestinians encapsulated in the life of one town, Bethlehem” Jon Snow
Picturehouse cinemas will be screening Leila Sansour’s film Open Bethlehem across the UK, beginning on December 5th. To book, select your cinema here.
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