About the Filmmakers
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land is a production of the nonprofit Media Education Foundation (MEF). The mission of MEF
is to produce and distribute documentary films and other educational resources as a means of inspiring critical reflection on the social, political, and
cultural impact of American mass media. The specters of global climate change, dwindling resources, and endless war now haunt the very future of the planet
and human civilization. Our ability to transform these current realities will depend on whether we are willing and able to imagine other possible futures.
The project of the Media Education Foundation has always been informed by just this: the notion that language — and, by extension, images — define the limits,
and possibilities, of human imagination and thought. The stakes have never been higher, and the necessity for education never more crucial.
From films about the commercialization of childhood and the subtle, yet widespread, effects of pornography, pop-cultural misogyny and sexism, to titles that deal with the devastating effects of rapacious consumerism and the wars for oil that it drives, we offer resources designed to help spark discussion about some of the most pressing, and complicated, issues of our time, in one of the last independent spheres left in the society: the classroom. Our aim is to inspire students to think critically and in new ways about the hyper-mediated world around them. more info. . .
Film Credits
Executive Producer: Sut Jhally
Directors: Sut Jhally & Bathsheba Ratzkoff
Producer: Bathsheba Ratzkoff
Editors: Kenyon King & Bathsheba Ratzkoff
Writers: Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally
Camera: Kelly Garner
Narrator: Loretta Alper
Audio Engineers: Thom Monahan & Mark Alan Miller
Audio Mixing: Mark Alan Miller & Slaughterhouse Studios MA
Graphic Design: Michelle Rojas
Motion Graphics: Michelle Rojas, Alisa Placas, Jeremy Smith & Peter Harkawik
Read the Director's Statement
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Also Available:
War Made Easy:
How Presidents & Pundits
Keep Spinning Us to Death
more info. . .
Hijacking Catastrophe:
9/11, Fear & the Selling
of American Empire
more info. . .
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