[sheffield-noborders] ESCAPE FROM DONCATRAZ!

[Jay Baker]

Hi All,

We're just two weeks away from the release of my feature-length non-fiction film, the comedic documentary, Escape from Doncatraz.

There's a sneak-peak preview of the preliminary edit at a test screening on 20th of September at 8:30pm at the Speigeltent in All Saints Square in Rotherham town centre.

The world premiere will now actually take place on 27th of September at 7pm at Montgomery Hall Community Cinema in Wath-upon-Dearne.

The first of many nationwide screenings will be on October 1st at 6pm at The Showroom in Shefield. In the months following, Manchester, Leeds, Derby, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, London, and Kitchener-Waterloo & Toronto, Canada will all experience screenings as well. (If you haven't already, sign up for updates at www.EscapeFromDoncatraz.com)

I hope to see you at my screenings!

Jay

  Once upon a time, the Sun never set on the British Empire. Today, confused and paranoid over its loss of identity, "Blair's Britain" has the highest concentration of CCTV cameras in the world, the largest DNA database on the planet, and its people have fallen for blaming asylum seekers and refugees for its problems, with tabloid newspaper headlines warning of "waves of illegal aliens."
  However, as the film examines, it is not those arriving from war-torn countries or fleeing state-sponsored terrorism, but rather those in suits and ties who have destroyed our values and sense of decency.
  Starting with the loss of the coal-mining industries following Margaret Thatcher's union-busting regime, the film looks at how "community" as a concept itself collapsed in the years following. With neighbours growing increasingly suspicious of one another within a culture of fear, people became increasingly divided. And as part of the "Coalition of the Willing," the British government used its people's taxes and bombed Afghanistan and Iraq, then berated the refugees arriving from those countries it destroyed, many detained in Lindholme Prison and transported by Wackenhut, who run Doncaster Prison, nicknamed "Doncatraz."
  Through interviews with Maya Evans, the vegan chef arrested for simply publicly reading names of soldiers who died in Iraq, Professor Prem Sikka, an expert on corporate tax avoidance, Teresa Hayter, the author and activist, and Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, in addition to many more, it becomes clear that the hysteria over asylum seekers, the "War on Terror," and the erosion of civil liberties, benefited only the media moguls and the political parties they funded.
  The film concludes by considering how people can be expected to stop themselves from crossing boundaries when the lines of civil liberty have been withdrawn so far; when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
  Escape from Doncatraz is a warning to other Western countries; a funny yet quite frightening look at how governments have removed civil liberties by creating a climate of xenophobia, and how Britain is perhaps the greatest example yet of a democracy gone wrong.
  


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