Posted on 01/05/2015 10:19:02 AM PST by lulu16
Rockin' the Wall Studios began when noted history professor and best selling author Larry Schweikart contacted Hollywood filmmaker Marc Leif about producing a documentary based on a chapter of Professor Schweikart's then forthcoming book, Seven Events that Made America, America.
The result was Rockin' the Wall, an independent documentary feature about how Rock 'n Roll helped bring about the fall of the Iron Curtain. The film was completed one year after that first conversation and in distribution about six weeks after that; an absolutely astounding record for an independent film.
Immediately after came the start of the sequel, Other Walls 2 Fall, the continuing story of how music continues as force for freedom and liberation through-out the world. Currently in post-production, that film also marked the start of Rockin' the Wall Studios, an independent production company dedicated to producing film, television, and video that explores and celebrates freedom, individual liberty, and the values of Western civilization.
Rockin' the Wall Studios combines decades of tough, in-the-trenches filmmaking experience with a pragmatic business expertise --- all in the service of producing entertaining, challenging, and commercially viable stories.
Let's see this film together, Tucsonans.
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Hi Appy Pappy. Good morning, hope to see you there.
Here are some pictures of the theater, which usually has terrible leftist films, but on occassion, true patriot events have been held;)
http://www.thefabledmarket.com/a-spectacular-independence-day.html
.... should I say hi anyway ?
Can’t figure out how to put up a picture.
Message me if you are going. Maybe we can get together for coffee with the filmmaker (I haven’t asked yet) and if talk show host Charles Heller, maybe he can join us afterwards, too.
If you need a counterpoint , tyrannical opposition to music, both Cambodia and Iran killed music singers/recording artists when the revolutions came.
There were also bands in South Vietnam recording songs against the North Vietnamese Communists. They fled when America pulled out.
All of these cited examples were rock and roll acts.
There is a documentary on Dengue Fever (the band) that covers some of the history of Cambodia.
CBC were a band in Vietnam.
There were covers of American (and British?) rock hits in the 1960s in Iran (as well as imports).
Some compilation albums exist of all 3 nations’ rock music.
I used to love going to the Loft Theater when I was at the UofA back in the 60s.
What was U of A like back then? We were on Elm street (across from campus) yesterday. It was filled with leftist signs in windows like,”Border Crossing is not Criminal.”
The first film I saw at The Loft was Reefer Madness a few years ago. I could not handle it, so we left. They serve beer in the lobby now.
I will be there to sign books, etc. as well. See you there!
Yes. We have a Cambodian rapper on his country’s death list. They don’t get good treatment at all. We have a heavy metal band inside Tehran (!!!) who smuggled us footage and interview footage. Good stuff. I might show our trailer there in Tucson as well.
Hope you come out. I’m the producer of the film, and would love to see all the Freepers there and I’ll be signing “A Patriot’s History of the United States” if you bring your copy-—or any of my other books.
I’ll be there. If anybody wants to go out for coffee after the movie, I’m up for it.
Charles Heller
charles@libertywatchradio.com
Hi Sandrat, can you help me direct Southern AZ Freepers to this post? I want to tell everyone who can attend the movie by Freeper Larry Schweikart, Rockin The Wall, to come to this event at The Loft in Tucson on Wednesday night.
Afterwards, I am organizing a coffee get together, so we can talk about the documentary and current events. I think it will be fun to see each other.
I don’t have a ping list for Zonians. Can you share. Thank-you and Happy New Year.
Well it was smaller (about 25000 students), and it was the 60s, so like most university it had protests against the vietnam war. And it was the time of the first “earth day” and when women lib started, and black power, so there were booths and demonstrations. It was the time of Timothy Leary and LSD and other drugs. The mini skirts were as mini as you can imagine and the when it got warm in the spring semester was impossible to concentrate on studying, and the women lib pushed for bra burning.
It was also a time of riots and the assassinations of RFK and MLK, so lots of protests about that.
And it’s also when man landed on the moon (69) and I being an engineering student was enthralled by the whole space race with the Soviets.
The Student Union was tiny compared to what it is now. Old Bear Down was where the basketball team played and the football stadium was much smaller.
We always lost at football to ASU and our basketball team stunk. But we were always one of the top teams in the nation in baseball.
There was a military draft - initially you got a deferment if you attended college. Later they took that out and instituted a lottery system based on your birthday. I missed going to vietnam by 3 numbers.
The 60s were a social revolution whose reverberations we’re still feeling. Wild and woolly times.
BUMP for Arizona FReepers.
I have No list of Zonians either. Try hijinx
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