Country: Canada
Year: 2007
Duration: 74'
A documentary following Michael Moore’s tour to launch Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), picking up on the politically hot atmosphere that made the director a real American left-wing icon. The movie is also a biography of Moore, from the time when he used to work for an independent newspaper in his native town of Flint, Michigan, to his first documentaries (including the famous and controversial Roger & Me, 1989), to his speech for the Oscar ceremony in 2003. “Manufacturing Dissent is a statement on freedom of speech. We are big believers in freedom of speech, questioning authority and speaking truth to power and that’s what this film is about. But as we followed Michael Moore around for over two years, filming his Slacker Uprising Tour, his one man effort to get out the youth vote in America and thereby unseat Bush, we soon realized freedom of speech, questioning authority and speaking truth to power is in the eye of the beholder.”
Biography
film director
Debbie Melnyk
worked as a television news producer in England and Germany for six years. Returning in her country, Canada, she worked as a documentary producer at the information cable station Newsworld. She later attended film school at New York University and worked as a television producer for Reuters TV, Worldwide Television News and Associated Press Television News for eight years in Los Angeles.
FILMOGRAFIA
Debbie Melnyk:
Junket Whore (mm, doc., 1998), Citizen Black (doc., 2004).
Debbie Melnyk, Rick Caine:
Manufacturing Dissent (doc., 2007).
Rick Caine
, with a fifteen years long experience in press and television, he has worked as a producer, director and director of photography for several American and European TV channels including CBC, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Associated Press TV, Reuters TV,
Canal+, Sat1, Independent Film Channel and Showtime. He has also been a contributor on numerous series and magazine shows as CBS’ 60 Minutes and ABC’s Peter Jennings
Reports.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rick Caine:
The Frank Truth (doc., 2001).
Debbie Melnyk, Rick Caine:
Manufacturing Dissent (doc., 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer Debbie Melnyk, Rick Caine
fotografia/director of photography Rick Caine
montaggio/film editor Bill Towgood, Robert Ruzic
suono/sound Debbie Melnyk
interpreti/cast Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Tony Bennett, John Kerry, Errol Morris, Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Wesley Clark, Michael Wilson, Jesse Jackson, Laura Bush, Mick Jagger, Dick Cheney, Chad Lowe, Moby, Ronald Reagan, Barbara Schroeder, Ken Starr, Helga Stephenson, Harvey Weinstein
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Persistence of Vision Productions
coproduzione/coproduction Canadian Independent Film & Video Fund
distribuzione/distribution Bananabana FIlms Italia
fotografia/director of photography Rick Caine
montaggio/film editor Bill Towgood, Robert Ruzic
suono/sound Debbie Melnyk
interpreti/cast Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Tony Bennett, John Kerry, Errol Morris, Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Wesley Clark, Michael Wilson, Jesse Jackson, Laura Bush, Mick Jagger, Dick Cheney, Chad Lowe, Moby, Ronald Reagan, Barbara Schroeder, Ken Starr, Helga Stephenson, Harvey Weinstein
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Persistence of Vision Productions
coproduzione/coproduction Canadian Independent Film & Video Fund
distribuzione/distribution Bananabana FIlms Italia