{"id":87613817,"date":"2005-01-12T01:07:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T09:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613817"},"modified":"2005-01-17T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T03:02:19","slug":"putting-his-camera-where-his-music-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613817","title":{"rendered":"Putting his camera where his music is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everyonedeservesmusic.com\/spearnews.html#ik\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Franti&#8217;s film &#8220;I know I&#8217;m Not Alone&#8221;<\/a> is going to close <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slamdance.com\" target=\"_blank\">Slamdance<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<sup>I Know I&#8217;m Not Alone (Michael Franti: USA) will close the festival as a work-in-progress. Filmed entirely on location in Israel, Iraq and Palestine during the summer and fall of 2004, the film is a personal diary of a musician&rsquo;s journey, looking for humanity in the warzones of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Festival Director Kathleen McInnis said, &#8220;We feel the documentary film to be the last stand of truly independent filmmaking &#8212; not yet co-opted by studios or the mini-majors but instead fresh voices from filmmakers almost always nearly shy of resources but rich in story. We couldn&rsquo;t be more excited to bookend our festival with two such strong films. They will encapsulate an extraordinary line up<br \/>\n<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Franti&#8217;s film &#8220;I know I&#8217;m Not Alone&#8221; is going to close Slamdance this year. Sweet. I Know I&#8217;m Not Alone (Michael Franti: USA) will close the festival as a work-in-progress. Filmed entirely on location in Israel, Iraq and Palestine during the summer and fall of 2004, the film is a personal diary of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}