Bringing Down a Dictator explained

Bringing Down A Dictator is a 56-minute documentary film by Steve York about the nonviolent defeat of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. It focuses on the contributions of the student-led Otpor! movement. The film originally aired on national PBS in March 2002. It was narrated by Martin Sheen and won the George Foster Peabody Award.

Other awards include:

• ABCNews VideoSource Award --- The International Documentary Association
• Silver Chris Award --- Columbus International Film and Video Festival
• Bronze Plaque: Scriptwriting --- Columbus International Film and Video Festival
• Silver Plaque --- The Chicago International Television Festival
• Gold Remi --- Worldfest Houston International Film Festival
• Best Documentary --- Sedona International Film Festival

Bringing Down A Dictator was broadcast several times in the former Republic of Georgia in the fall of 2003 and was credited with helping the citizens there organize their nonviolent protest^[1] against the electoral fraud linked to Eduard Shevardnadze, in what was called the Rose Revolution.^[2] In a February 9, 2011 news piece on the Al-Jazeera-English channel, members of the youth leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 are seen watching Bringing Down A Dictator during an organizational meeting.^[3]

Screenings

• 2010 Zagreb International Film Festival^[4]
• 2010 Swarthmore College Peace Week^[5]
• 2008 Cairo Human Rights Film Festival^[6]
• 2007 Harvard University Program on Negotiation^[7]
• 2007 7islands Film Festival, India^[8]
• 2002 UCLA International Institute^[9]
• 2002 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars^[10]
• 2002 G6 Summit, Calgary, Canada^[11]

External links

• A Force More Powerful Productions website
• York Zimmerman Inc. website
• Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies Serbian Case

Notes and References

1. Tbilisi's "Revolution of Roses' Mentored by Serbian Activists, Peter Baker, Washington Post November 25, 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20111125043140/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11577-2003Nov24?language=printer
2. NPR Morning Edition Story, https://www.npr.org/2003/11/28/1524658/documentary-chronicles-fall-of-milosevic
3. Al Jazeera People and Power segment, February 9, 2011, http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/02/201128145549829916.html
4. Zagreb International Film Festival Web site: ZagrebFilmFestival | film programme | Bringing Down a Dictator . 2010-11-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718150755/http://www.zagrebfilmfestival.com/index_en.php?page=d0&iz=fpf&fid=50209&lang=en . 2011-07-18 .
5. Swarthmore Peace Week 2010, http://calendar.swarthmore.edu/calendar/EventList.aspx?fromdate=4/25/2010&todate=4/25/2010&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=5969&view=EventDetails&information_id=19372
6. Cairo Human Rights Film Festival, http://www.cairofilm.org/filmfestival.html
7. Harvard University PON, Web site: PON Film Series: Bringing Down a Dictator . 2010-11-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110703033629/http://128.103.205.167/news/2007/film_bringing_down_dictator.php . 2011-07-03 .
8. 7islands Film Festival, http://www.7islands.in/schedule_detail.html
9. UCLA International Institute, Web site: UCLA International Hosts L.A. Preview Screening of Bringing Down a Dictator, UCLA International Institute . 2010-11-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070823000734/http://international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=1407 . 2007-08-23 .
10. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Web site: Archived copy . 2010-11-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060819174545/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary . 2006-08-19 .
11. G6 Summit, Calgary, Canada, http://www.david-kilgour.com/mp/film.htm