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GAP COMMERCIAL - 'stress Free' *2007 ACCOLADE WINNER
Directed / Produced / Edited by: Monty Marsh
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OBAMA COMMERCIAL: 'CHANGE' :30
MONTY MARSH: DIRECTOR - PRODUCER
PATRICK MATTISON: PRODUCER - EDITOR
JAMES WRIGHT: COPYWRITER |
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DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS Life and Death on LA's Skid Row
With an alarming number of homeless VETERANS, poverty stricken FAMILIES, mentally ill and drug addicted CITIZENS – the disparity of wealth in America is spiraling out of control. Dirty Little Secrets is an up close and personal look at homelessness, and in particular life and death on LA’s Skid Row. Using imagery and contrast in both the visual and literal sense, the film examines Skid Row’s third world conditions while a few miles down the road some of the richest people on the planet call Los Angeles ‘home’.
a Monty Marsh short film |
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PHOTO ESSAY: BLOODY SUNDAY REVISITED On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma for the right to vote. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs. They were driven back into Selma. Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a "symbolic" march to the bridge. Civil rights leaders then sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery. On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965--the best possible redress of grievances.
March 4, 2007 - Leaders from the Democratic Party joined hands with the people of Selma, Alabama to celebrate those who fought for and ultimately won the Right to Vote for all African Americans.
Selma, Alabama
*This Photo Essay is in dedication to the memory of Spider Martin.
PHOTOS BY: MONTY MARSH
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PHOTO ESSAY: STATE OF THE UNION Images of the American Voice
"He who is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of Hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death..." ~Thomas Paine
PHOTOS BY: MONTY MARSH
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PHOTO ESSAY: BENIN, WEST AFRICA THE POINT OF NO RETURN
An in-depth look at a country where the origins of slavery began, and continues today in the form of CHILD slavery. Children are sold for as little as $5 US dollars, in which they are forced into a life of unfair labor, sexual abuse, no education and little food.
This photo essay takes a look at the stilt village in Ganvie and journeys through several urban and rural settings such as Cotonou, Porto Novo, Ouidah, Pommese, Akpali-Kpevi Jesulome and Adjohoun.
The stilt village in Ganvie was built centuries ago because it brought the people much closer to fishing grounds. More importantly, it provided protection from enslaving Europeans who were unwilling to travel the distance and risk malaria.
PHOTOS BY: MONTY MARSH
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PHOTO ESSAY: THE AFRICAN HOLOCAUST BENIN, WEST AFRICA : OUIDAH
SLAVERY 101 - THE STORY THEY DON'T TELL YOU IN HISTORY CLASS
With a rich history in VooDoo religion, Ouidah was the capital of the Slave Trade centuries ago. The Portuguese, Dutch, British and French all had forts near this town to defend their trading interest. Once they aquired slaves (from the King or captured), the slaves were forced to walk in chains hundreds of miles to Ouidah. Once they arrived, they were subjected to a brutal process of brainwashing. As they were taken down the slave route, they were forced to walk around the mythical 'Tree of Forgetfulness". The women walked around 7 times (blindfolded) in one direction and the men 9 times in the other. The slaves were told this would make them forget everything - their names, their family, and the life that they once had.
This photo essay includes images from the last remaining (Portuguese) fort and paints a definitive picture of the pain and suffering that was forced on the African people. While in the forts, the slaves drank and bathed from the same water source. The men were forced face down as the women who were lying on their backs were violently raped. Any slave that jumped the walls of the fort in search of freedom would be met with alligators in a deep moat protecting the fort.
Today, on the same shores sits a very 'Heavy' arched gateway - The Point of No Return. This arch is a Unesco Heritage site that bears the weight of the 28 million or so Africans that were taken into Slavery. THE AFRICAN HOLOCAUST.
PHOTOS BY: MONTY MARSH
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PHOTO ESSAY: CUBA TE LLAMA LIFE BEHIND THE GATES OF THE EMBARGO
Just before Castro's recent illness, this photo essay was created to take a personal look at Cuba and it's people under the current US Embargo.
PHOTOS BY: MONTY MARSH
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PORTRAITS PHOTOS BY: MONTY MARSH
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GUERILLA VISION a Monty Marsh film
*OFFICIAL SELECTION - ARTIVIST FILM FESTIVAL
www.artivists.org
Written / Directed / Produced / Edited by Monty Marsh
A comprehensive look at race relations, politics, slavery, homelessness and war. Guerilla Vision closely examines the Obama For America presidential campaign, takes the audience to Selma, Alabama where African Americans fought for the right to vote in 1965, across the United States covering the countless Americans exercising their freedom of speech against the War in Iraq, on the streets of Los Angeles, the homeless capital of the United States and one of the richest cities in the world, to Benin, West Africa where slavery began and continues today in the form of child slavery and to Cuba where the United States' imposed Embargo is seen and felt through the imagery.
Guerilla Vision.
Changing the way you see the world! |
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