Shiny Object, Fools Foundation and Sacramento Media Group present a screening of the documentary Orwell Rolls in His Grave.

The consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, director Robert Pappas explores what the media doesn't like to talk about: itself.

Meticulously tracing the process by which media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events, Pappas presents a riveting and eloquent mix of media professionals and leading intellectual voices on the media.

Among the cast of characters in Orwell Rolls in His Grave are Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity; Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist; Robert McChesney, Professor, University of Illinois; Peter Mitchelmore, Former Editor of the New York Post; Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR; Vincent Bugliosi, former L.A. prosecutor and legal scholar; Mark Crispin Miller; author, professor, New York University; footage of film director and author Michael Moore from a speaking engagement; Rep. Bernie Sanders; Danny Schecter, author and former producer for ABC and CNN, and many more.

A marvel of passionate succinctness... if its biting analysis proves true, film is unlikely to ever be presented to the general public. The conviction and punch of the interviewees' commentary never becomes tedious. - Variety

Enlightening, at times disturbing, and always provocative - L.A. Times

Vivid and distressing... a deeply fascinating must-see for anyone interested in the slow morphing of news into mind-numbingly faux-informative entertainment. - Entertainment Today

The most chilling of all new-wave political documentaries - Seattle Post Intelligencer

ALSO - There's some radio coverage of this one on Friday Dec 8: KCTC 1320 AM at 7 AM - JoAnn Fuller interviewed live; KSAC 1240 AM: 3:30 PM - Director Robert Pappas interviewed live via phone by Christine Craft, followed by in-studio interviews with JoAnn Fuller and Steve Kolb from Media Edge at 5:30 PM

Following the film, reps from the Sacramento Media Group will briefly speak to let you know about local media alternatives and reform.  They'll also be on hand to take any questions or just to speak with folks one on one. The line-up of speakers is: Ron Cooper, Executive Director of Access Sacramento; JoAnn Fuller, Asst Director, Common Cause California; Monica Krauth, Sacramento Indymedia.


Friday December 8 at 7 PM - $5 gets ya in. Presented by Shiny Object and Fools Foundation. Location: Fools Foundation - 1025 19th St, Sacto. 19th & K - off of K St between 19th and 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Digital projection on to a big screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion or whatever.

We are doing regular weekly film screenings with Fools Foundation on Fridays at 7 PM - and most are $5 (unless otherwise noted in advance), and will have filmmakers out from time to time.


Coming on 12/15 - Crimewave - From The Kids in the Hall director John Paizs comes a true obscurity from 1985. Rarely screened or seen in the US, Shiny Object and Fools Foundation are excited to bring this brilliantly bent oddity to Sacramento, thanks entirely to Mr. Paizs himself. There's no realistic way to try to convey this film in words, but the general plot centers on a quiet young man (also played by Paizs) who is intent on writing "the greatest color crime movie ever made," but can only write beginnings and endings - and only those by streetlight. After befriending the young Kim, she tries to help him complete his opus, but fails. Throughout the film, the various beginnings, endings, and rejected "middles" are dramatized. Throw in a mysterious and psychotic script doctor named Dr. Jolly, a private club for imaginary friends, a quarantined city -- and you still won't come close to the idea of what this film is really like. Trivia note: Guy Maddin's first on-screen appearance was in a 1981 short by John Paizs.

This is planned to show with the even more obscure 1982 short film by John Paizs, Springtime in Greenland.

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