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MIDLANDS BASED MULTI MEDIA COMPANY MAKES MOVIE SET IN 2048 BAGHDAD

Roger Cottrell/Blind Samurai Films/Spanner Graphics | 22.09.2006 08:22 | Anti-racism | Culture | Repression | Birmingham | World

Blind Samurai Films and Publishing in Malvern, Worcestershire, has long been committed to using new technology for democratizing cultural production in the face of corporate control of media. Now, together with Roger Cottrell's edgy Birmingham based crime thrillers available through the Company website they are working on a graphic novel and film set in Baghdad in 2048

When Blind Samurai Films and publishing was established in Malvern in 2005 by movie script writer Roger Cottrell and IT specialist Paul Mitton it was to avail of new technology in taking cultural production away from the corporations and democratizing said production as part of a Gramscian war of position.

Using generic forms, (particularly that of the crime novel,) Roger Cottrell embarked on his second city quintet of crime novels that deal with racism, police corruption, fascism, state repression and other issues through the travails of dodgy black Birmingham cop Alan Kemp.

By far the best of these is STRAIGHT TO HELL, about the Nazi underground in the West Midlands and ALL books can be perused (and even bought) on the following link:-

 http://www.blindsamurai.com/presenting/nov_story/novstory.html

Reviews from INDYMEDIA are not only welcome but sorely needed!!!!

More recently, Roger's science fiction short story, WAR CHILD, set in a Corporate controlled Baghdad in 2048 was shortlisted for the UPC Science Fiction award and has been developed by INDYMEDIA IRELAND veteran Eamonn Crudden as a film pilot.

This was shown at the DARKLIGHT festival in Dublin. The story is now being developed both as a graphic novel, (in conjunction with Spanner Graphics in West Cork Ireland,) and as a short film to be screened at Birmingham's TIC between 26th and 29th October.

Our plan is to develop this as a part animated feature with overlays similar in format to A SCANNER DARKLY, but dealing with such issues as fundamentalism and corporate control of foreign policy in the mid-21st Century.

Basically, what we want from Indymedai subscribers is ventilated and feedback. We'll be posting some of the graphic sequences very soon.

watch this space!!

And keep up the good work on Indymeda!!!

ROGER COTTRELL
HEAD OF SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT
BLIND SAMURAI FILMS

Roger Cottrell/Blind Samurai Films/Spanner Graphics
- e-mail: corkfilms@hotmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.blindsamurai.com


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sorry

22.09.2006 09:26

this is NOT news

pete


wow wee

22.09.2006 20:51


Forgive whilst I just die from shock, nothing ever happens in Iraq except at the hands of imperial and colonial forces.

Look at Babylon, Ur, Samarra and people think we should all be making a song and dance about this.

Oh please folks, get a life

iraqi


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