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Controversial film by A Jonathan Benny wins Special Jury Prize in Russia

It was announced yesterday that A. Jonathan Benny's provocative short film "Peaceful Propaganda" received a Special Jury Prize at the International Kansk Video Festival in Russia. As part of the festival program the film will now screen in ten other cities in Europe including London, Belgrade, Madrid and Berlin.



Filmed in Vancouver, Canada, "Peaceful Propaganda" looks at a present-day Canadian peace march from the admiring point-of-view of a fascist propaganda newsreel. The film includes grainy, black and white images of Canadian peace activists waiving communist flags and proudly holding anti-American banners including those comparing Hitler to Bush and likening the Reichstag Fire of 1933 to the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.



Benny lugged around an old 35mm movie camera to capture images of actual peace marches that would later be turned into the mock-propaganda film, complete with a crackling, bellowing voiceover. "In the newsreel, the narrator's aggressive, authoritarian voice applauds these people and their farcical signs and banners. At its core this film is a documentary that expresses my dismay at those who are willing to trivialize past horrors to further a cause." says Benny.



"Peaceful Propaganda" had its world premiere in Seattle at the One Reel Film Festival on September 4th and has been selected to screen in Athens, Greece at the Panorama of Independent Filmmakers at the end of the month.



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