The youtube video plays awful for most. I sent it out to a few
thousand people and asked for feedback and many people say it doesn.t
even play for them.
You might want to use google video
Charlie
www.playahata.com
--- In itsgiulianitime@yahoogroups.com, "itsgiulianitime"
<itsgiulianitime@...> wrote:
>
> hey friends,
>
> check out www.giulianitime.com Get Involved page - we posted some
> banners and the trailer.
>
> Also, the "Draft Rudy" campaign sent out an Action Alert on Monday
> asking for money donation to combat "GIULIANI TIME" - there's a
link
> to the action alert posted on our website.
>
> We have sent the following release out:
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> April 17, 2006
>
>
> "Draft Rudy" Campaign Goes on the Attack Against "Giuliani Time"
> Campaign Group Issues `Action Alert' Calling For Donations to
Launch
> A Campaign to Expose Inaccuracies in Film
>
>
> LOS ANGELES – With a month to go before the release of "Giuliani
> Time," Giuliani backers have put out an email Action Alert calling
> for subscribers "to launch an effective campaign to expose the
> inaccuracies in "Giuliani Time" and defend America's Mayor,"
> following the announcement of the documentary's theatrical release
> plans last week. On Monday, Allen Fore, co-founder of the Draft
Rudy
> For President, NFP (www.draftrudygiuliani.com) based in Chicago,
> Illinois, called for campaign donation of "$20, $200, or
$2,000...to
> combat and expose this propaganda that is being disguised as a
> documentary."
>
> Plans for the film's theatrical release were announced last week.
> National news outlets including the New York Times, New York Post
and
> MSNBC's "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson along with New York
> regional media such as the Daily News, WCBS, NY1's "Inside City
Hall"
> and WABC covered the story extensively. Patrick Healy of the New
> York Times called the film "Nothing less than a full frontal
assault
> on the civic deification of Rudolph W. Giuliani." David
> Saltonstall's column in the New York Daily News opines that the
> film "seeks to do for Giuliani what Michael Moore's `Farenheit
9/11'
> did for President Bush." The New York Post took aim at the "leftie
> flick." Director Kevin Keating was interviewed live on
MSNBC's "The
> Situation" with Tucker Carlson, on WCBS by Andrew Kirtzman, TV
> journalist and author of "Emperor of the City," one of the first
> books on Giuliani's term as mayor, and on "Inside City Hall" by
> Dominic Carter, who covered City Hall during Giuliani's reign.
>
> In the Action Alert, the "Draft Rudy" organization claims the
> film "tries to distort reality and ruin the reputation of an
American
> hero." Keating's film analyzes Giuliani's family history, his
> disastrous record on the First Amendment, the use and abuse of
> government powers and the severe methods he employed to enforce the
> Quality of Life and Zero Tolerance campaigns in New York City. In
> making the film, director Kevin Keating researched the film for
four
> years, shot approximately 300 hours of footage and culled through
> another 200 hours of network and archival footage. The filmmakers
> interviewed key people who worked with Giuliani's administration as
> well as long-time Giuliani advocates from the Manhattan Institute
> (Myron Magnet and Heather McDonald), George Kelling and Fred
> Siegel. The film features interviews with former New York City
> Police Commissioner William S. Bratton, former New York City School
> Commissioner Rudy Grew, and Wayne Barrett, the Village Voice's
Senior
> Editor who has written extensively on Giuliani ("Rudy!: An
> Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani"). "The movie does
track
> sections from my book," says Barrett. "When the book came out in
> 2000, it was covered extensively by the media and Giuliani was
> challenged directly about what the book revealed. None of the
facts
> presented in the book were questioned by Giuliani."
>
> The film will open in New York at the Landmark's Sunshine Cinema on
> May 12 and widen to select theaters across the country. Cinema
Libre
> Studio has worldwide rights. For more information about the film
> visit www.giulianitime.com.
>
>
> FOR MORE INFORMATION:
>
>
> Draft Rudy Campaign - http://www.draftrudygiuliani.com/
>
>
> · From Wikipedia: "Draft Rudy Giuliani for President, Inc.,
> [23] registered with Federal Election Commission in October 2005 to
> become the first federal committee formed with the sole purpose of
> encouraging former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to run for
President
> of the United States in 2008. As of January 2006, it remains the
only
> committee formed for this reason. By law, Draft Rudy Giuliani for
> President cannot coordinate its activities with the former mayor."
>
>
>
> · Action Alert posted at: www.giulianitime.com
>
>
>
> ABOUT CINEMA LIBRE STUDIO:
>
> Cinema Libre Studio is a haven for independent filmmakers with
views,
> offering one-stop shopping for production, co-production,
> distribution, foreign sales, marketing, and post-production
services.
> Headquartered in Los Angeles, the company is best known for
> distributing in theaters and on DVD titles that
> include "Outfoxed," "Uncovered," Tim Robbins' "Embedded
> Live," "Giuliani Time" and "Through the Fire." Several Cinema Libre
> Studio productions currently in festivals have recently won awards
> including "Conventioneers,"(Winner of the 2006 Independent Spirit
> Awards `John Cassavetes' Award (best feature under $500,000) and
Best
> Feature at the Miami International Film Festival), "The Empire in
> Africa," won Best Documentary at Slamdance 2006, and "Giuliani
Time"
> won Best Documentary art the SilverLake Film Festical. For more
> information visit www.cinemalibrestudio.com.
>
>
> EDITORS AND PRODUCERS:
>
> If you are interested in receiving a screener or to schedule an
> interview with director Kevin Keating, please contact Mary Keeler
at
> mkeeler@... or call 818-349-8822.
>
>
> To download images and other information, please visit
> www.giulianitime.com.
>
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