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Mediastan aims to tell the ‘real’ WikiLeaks story
Michelle Clancy | 23-12-2013
Global broadcaster RT is planning to air Mediastan, a documentary that will track the WikiLeaks team as it travels through Central Asian.
The odyssey will take in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and other ‘stans in 2011 in their attempt to release U.S. diplomatic cables to media outlets around the world.
According to WikiLeaks, Mediastan was released as a challenger to The Fifth Estate – a fictionalised account of the WikiLeaks story. The Hollywood film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, was criticized by controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a “propaganda attack” against himself, WikiLeaks and its staff.
Mediastan was filmed in a number of languages and is subtitled in English. It will air in its original format on the RT international news network at rt.com and will be dubbed, respectively, in Arabic and Spanish for RT Arabic and RT Spanish news channels’ broadcasts and their corresponding Web sites.
It will also be shown with Russian subtitles on RT’s Russian-language online portal. The 90-minute film will be split into three parts, which will air consecutively, and will be re-broadcast several times in late December.
“Mediastan is an acid-test, where depending on how the film is treated by the media you can understand where their boundaries and allegiances are,” said Johannes Wahlstrom, Swedish journalist and the film’s director. “From this point of view, RT proves that it is the largest international TV-station in the world that will not shun from the topics of Mediastan, namely those of censorship and freedom of speech.”
This film raises critical questions about freedom of the press – whether it exists and whether it is truly possible – at a time when the global community is more than ever paying attention to the astounding facts exposed by whistleblowers such as Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and outlets like Wikileaks,” said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor in chief. “We’re proud to bring the next chapter in this ever-important debate to RT viewers around the world.”
Mediastan was produced by Assange along with Rebecca O’Brien and Lauren Dark of the Sixteen Films production company. The film originally premiered at the London Raindance Film Festival in October 2013.
RT has previously collaborated with Assange in 2012 when it broadcast the 12-part Julian Assange Show. The interview program won the top prize at the New York Festival in the Documentary/Information Program: Politics TV category in April 2013.
Michelle Clancy | 23-12-2013
Global broadcaster RT is planning to air Mediastan, a documentary that will track the WikiLeaks team as it travels through Central Asian.
The odyssey will take in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and other ‘stans in 2011 in their attempt to release U.S. diplomatic cables to media outlets around the world.
According to WikiLeaks, Mediastan was released as a challenger to The Fifth Estate – a fictionalised account of the WikiLeaks story. The Hollywood film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, was criticized by controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a “propaganda attack” against himself, WikiLeaks and its staff.
Mediastan was filmed in a number of languages and is subtitled in English. It will air in its original format on the RT international news network at rt.com and will be dubbed, respectively, in Arabic and Spanish for RT Arabic and RT Spanish news channels’ broadcasts and their corresponding Web sites.
It will also be shown with Russian subtitles on RT’s Russian-language online portal. The 90-minute film will be split into three parts, which will air consecutively, and will be re-broadcast several times in late December.
“Mediastan is an acid-test, where depending on how the film is treated by the media you can understand where their boundaries and allegiances are,” said Johannes Wahlstrom, Swedish journalist and the film’s director. “From this point of view, RT proves that it is the largest international TV-station in the world that will not shun from the topics of Mediastan, namely those of censorship and freedom of speech.”
This film raises critical questions about freedom of the press – whether it exists and whether it is truly possible – at a time when the global community is more than ever paying attention to the astounding facts exposed by whistleblowers such as Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and outlets like Wikileaks,” said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor in chief. “We’re proud to bring the next chapter in this ever-important debate to RT viewers around the world.”
Mediastan was produced by Assange along with Rebecca O’Brien and Lauren Dark of the Sixteen Films production company. The film originally premiered at the London Raindance Film Festival in October 2013.
RT has previously collaborated with Assange in 2012 when it broadcast the 12-part Julian Assange Show. The interview program won the top prize at the New York Festival in the Documentary/Information Program: Politics TV category in April 2013.
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