Uprising! (2015)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 52M

Director : Susanna Lira, Barney Lankester-Owen

Synopsis

"Levante" won Canal Futura's annual documentary competition in 2014 and was filmed in Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Gaza and Hong Kong. It first aired at 22pm on the 25th June on Canal Futura. The film is about inspiring people around the world who use technology to speak out against injustice such as Filipe Peçanha from Midia Ninja who used the Japanese Twitcasting app to broadcast the Brazilian protests of 2013 from his smartphone, Noor Harazeen from Palestine who created the first English-speaking youtube news channel in Gaza, and Howard Kong from the Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong who used a drone to film the conflicts between police and protesters in 2014.

Actors

Filipe Peçanha
Filipe Peçanha
himself

Crews

Susanna Lira
Susanna Lira
Director
Barney Lankester-Owen
Barney Lankester-Owen
Director
Barney Lankester-Owen
Barney Lankester-Owen
Writer
Paulo Mainhard
Paulo Mainhard
Editor
Muriel Alves
Muriel Alves
Assistant Director

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