ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE

"WAR IS PEACE," "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY," "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH..." Has America entered an Orwellian world of double-speak where outright lies can pass for the truth? Are its citizens being sold a bill of goods by a handful of transnational media corporations and political elites whose interests have little in common with the interests of the American people? Director Robert Kane Pappas uses searing testimony from the best and the brightest to suggest this is the case. Pappas asks some troubling questions about the size of media monopolies, how they got that way, who decides what airs and what doesn't, and why some news stories go unreported (or underreported) by the mainstream media. Featuring interviews with Congressman Bernie Sanders, Charles Lewis, Mark Crispin Miller, Vincent Bugliosi, Robert McChesney and an appearance by Michael Moore, ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE questions whether Americans are being given the information a democracy needs or whether they've been electronically lobotomized into loving Big Brother.

Directed, written and produced by Robert Kane Pappas. US, 2004, color, 95 min.

"Anyone who watches ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE could seek a career analyzing the ever-tightening relationship between media and politics... or start a revolution."
-Stina Chyn, FILM THREAT