Albany Area Films & Fun

"In "Steal This Story, Please!", is a celebration of independent media. We watch as independent journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! stands up against powerful entities such as politicians, military powers, and corporations.

Join us for a film screening of this documentary film, followed by a critical conversation– where anyone can contribute to the open dialogue– about the power of the media, questioning power, and how we can resist with a microphone.

This event is co-sponsored by iEar Presents! and Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

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Taking on politicians, CEOs and riot police, Amy Goodman has reported some of the most urgent and underreported stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping account of the trailblazing journalist whose unwavering
commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. Drawing on an extraordinary archive, Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin ( Trouble the Water, Citizen Koch, The Janes ) take us behind the
scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions — as she navigates a media landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a powerful critique of mainstream media, and a celebration of those who challenge it.

Critical conversations are open dialogues where anyone can contribute to the ideas around a specific topic. After the screening of the film, the audience will rearrange our chairs so that we can discuss the themes of the film and how we can utilize the power of media for our own act of resistence.

Featuring the film’s producer Karen Ranucci.
Karen Ranucci (Producer) has been involved in the field of independent video and film production and distribution for the past thirty-five years. She began working at Downtown Community TV Center in New York, where she taught video production workshops to community groups and started its documentary distribution department. In 1978, Ranucci traveled to Vietnam with DCTV’s directors, Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno to produce the PBS documentary VIETNAM: PICKING UP THE PIECES. In 1979, she co-directed EL DIALOGO, a documentary about the Cuban exile community in the United States and their relationship to Cuba.

For nearly a decade, Ranucci freelanced as a reporter/producer/camera operator for NBC Nightly News and Today Show, traveling to many regions of the world. In 1985, Ranucci won an Emmy Award for Best Investigative Reporting for a series she developed about the poisoning of workers in the tungsten carbide industry. In 1988, Ranucci founded the Latin American Video Archives, a non-profit organization which facilitated the distribution of Latin-American-made film and video to the educational market in the U.S. In the days following September 11, 2001, Ranucci joined the Democracy Now! team to transform the daily radio news program into a simultaneous television and internet broadcast."

The above description is taken from the Sanctuary for Independent Media's web page: