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Friday, February 10, 2012
Uprising in Syria
The recent events in Syria, only days after the first anniversary of the revolt at Tahrir Square in Egypt, have raised the question of international intervention once more. As reported by The Washington Post, Turkey called Friday for rapid international action to supply humanitarian assistance to besieged cities in Syria but said the time was not right to begin arming the Syrian opposition.
Our release SYRIA: THE ASSADS' TWILIGHT gives an in-depth background on the political situation of the country by exposing the history of the family in power and the problems in the regime.
Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography, similar to our Census Bureau, published results on the country’s child labor practices through 2009. Despite a decrease of 17%, the report shows nearly 3.0Million children between the ages of 5 through 17 are in the workforce, as reported in July.
Eugenio Polgovsky's THE INHERITORS, currently screening at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC, immerses us in the daily lives of these children who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor.
For more information on how our daily environment exposes us to all sorts of radiation, see SURROUNDED BY WAVES, a fascinating blend of interviews, archives, experiments and 3D animation investigating what is known, and unknown, about the potential risks.
Hague Court Issues Warrant for Qaddafi for War Crimes
The International Criminal Court, led by prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, issued arrest warrants for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and his chief of intelligence, Abdullah Senussi, on charges of crimes against humanity, including murder and persecution, stemming from the first two weeks of the uprising in Libya that led to a NATO bombing campaign, as reported by The New York Times.
Our new release, PROSECUTOR, follows Moreno-Ocampo as he travels to the world’s most violent countries to investigate and prosecute those accused of brutal crimes against humanity.
Throughout the world, people will be taking action against one of the most destructive and largest industrial projects on the earth - the Alberta Tar Sands.
In support of this occasion, Icarus Films has partnered with online cinema MUBI to make our documentary about this issue available.
March 25, 2011 is the Centennial of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire which took the lives of 146 workers,mostly young immigrant women, and galvanized a movement for social justice. The New York Times remembers Clara Lemlich, "who is being recognized as a leading voice of working women in the early 20th century, a clarion force braided into the history of change that came before and after the fire."
In the wake of the events in Egypt, The New York Times offers a portrait of American intellectual Gene Sharp highlighting his work on peaceful revolution and how it served as a how-to manual for several uprisings and dissident groups.
Our new documentary SURROUNDED BY WAVES, by Jean-Christophe Ribot takes a look at how wireless technology keeps expanding the debate surrounding the health impacts of electromagnetic waves keeps growing. Filmed in France, Israel, Sweden, and the United States, SURROUNDED BY WAVES uses an elegant blend of interviews, archives, experiments and 3D animation to investigate what is known, and unknown, about the potential risks.
As the Western world strays more and more from Freudian therapy, China discovers his method and psychotherapy process. This Washington Post article echoes one of our films, Oedipus in China, about the recent rise of psychotherapy in a society where personal feelings should not be discussed.
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