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A documentary film on the U.S. global web of military bases
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International festival official selection São Paulo Intl Film Festival Al Jazeera Intl Documentary Festival New York Peace Film Festival BAFICI (Buenos Aires Intl Film Festival), Espoo Ciné Intl Film Festival (Finland) DOCSDF (Intl Doc. Film Fest. Mexico City) Istanbul Intl 1001 Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox Int Documentary Film Festival We the Peoples Film Festival (UK) DOK Leipzig (Germany) IDFA Docs for Sale (Netherlands) Dubai Filmmart (UAE) Int Festival DerHumALC (Argentina) Ronda Intl Film Festival (Spain) Romania Intl Film Festival Tama Cinema Forum (Japan) Festival des Libertés (Belgium) MEDIMED (Spain) Cine’Eco (Portugal) Iasi Intl Film Festival (Romania) TUR Ostrava Film Festival (Czech Republic) Euganea Film Festival Est Film Festival NoemArt Film Festival.
SiciliAmbiente Film Festival winner “Best Documentary”
STEPS Intl Film Festival “Special selection of Committee for Best Documentary”
Tekfestival special mention “Best Photography”
The documentary
Over the course of the last century, the US has encircled the world with a web of military bases unlike any other in history. Today, they amount to more than 700, in 40 countries. No continent is spared. They are one of the most powerful forces at play in the world today, yet one of the less talked-about. They have shaped the lives of millions, yet remain a mystery to most. Why do countries like Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea still host hundreds of US military bases and thousands of US soldiers? And why is the US aggressively expanding in many new countries? How do the bases affect local populations, and what stance has president Obama taken on this controversial subject? This documentary film answers these and other questions through the words of prominent experts, intellectuals and ex-insiders Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Chalmers Johnson and others and through the shocking but often inspiring stories of those directly affected by US bases in Italy, Japan, the Indian Ocean and elsewhere.
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Enrico Parenti (born in ’78), a former IDEP (Barcelona) film student, is an Italian-American free-lance filmmaker. He is the author of a documentary on a Brazilian traveling circus and one on the plight of blindness in Ethiopia. He has worked as an assistant director and DOP on various documentaries for a number of independent productions. “Standing Army” is his first feature length film. Takaefilms.com
Edited by: Desideria RaynerPhotography: Enrico ParentiMusic: Stefano PiroExecutive Producer: Federico MinettiAnimations: Mbanga StudioProduced by: Effendem Film, Takaefilms.comLength: 73'
Thomas Fazi (born in ‘82) is an Anglo-Italian researcher and translator. He works as a political consultant for various Italian publishing houses. “Standing Army” is his first feature length film.
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FOX FX (Italy)Al Jazeera (Middle east)Russia Today (World non-exclusive)YLE (Finland)TVP Kultura (Poland)RTV (Slovenia) ETB (Spain)ERR (Estonia)TVI (Portugal)Press TV (World non-exclusive)
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