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Life or Liberty is a nonprofit project under the fiscal sponsorship of Third World Newsreel and Fractured Atlas. The documentary Enemy Alien has received support from: New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA). the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/New York Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Rooftop Films' Filmmaker's Fund Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA). Konrad Aderer is a 2006 grant recipient from the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City for the project Enemy Alien. Funding has also been provided by The Puffin Foundation . |
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Enemy Alien
documentary-in-progress completed running time: 56:40 Director/Producer: Konrad Aderer |
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The dramatic, intimate story of the two-year struggle to free Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti, who was detained in a post-9/11 roundup of Muslim immigrants, told from the perspective of a young Japanese filmmaker born to a family interned during World War II. This intimate, revelatory film takes on profound personal and historical implications as Farouk, his son and the filmmaker each pay a personal price for resisting wartime policies. Make a tax-deductible, secure contribution.
Please contact konrad@lifeorliberty.org for more information. |
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PRODUCTION
PERSONNEL Konrad Aderer Konrad Aderer (Producer/DP) trained in production workshops at Third World Newsreel and through working on independent shorts and features. Since 2001 Konrad has been producing short documentaries, distributed and under the fiscal sponsorship of Third World Newsreel, telling the stories of Muslims targeted by national security policies. These include the award-winning short Life or Liberty, and Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Political Prisoner, which was an intrinsic part of the successful grassroots campaign to free Farouk. Konrad collaborates with Desis Rising Up and Moving, Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants, and other community organizations on short videos used for outreach and organizing, including Rising Up: The Alams. Konrad also freelances as a field producer, videographer, and editor for commercial clients, NGOs and nonprofits including USAID and the ACLU. Keiko Deguchi (Editor) A native of Japan, Keiko Deguchi came to USA to study cinema at NYU in 1985. She started her editing career in feature films in 1987, assisting on such film as Carlito's Way ( Brian DePalma), Kansas City (Robert Altman), Michael (Nora Ephron), and Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo). As an editor, she works on both narrative and documentary films. Her documentary film credits include Linda Hattendorf's The Cats of Mirikitani, John Valadez and Cristina Ibarra's The Last Conquistador, Gayle Ferraro's Anonymously Yours and Ganges: River to Heaven, and most recently 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival audience award winning film, In A Dream, directed by Jeremiah Zagar. Her narrative film credits include Patrick Stettner's The Business of Strangers, Tom DiCillo's The Real Blonde, Susan Seidelman's The Boynton Beach Club, and Steven Shainberg's Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. She is currently working on a narrative film, Jonathan Parker's Untitled. Advisors: John Valadez (James Yee Mentor) has been producing award-winning documentaries for the past fourteen years. John's most recent feature documentary, The Last Conquistador is scheduled to air nationally on the PBS series POV. John has directed several films for PBS including the landmark ITVS funded documentary Passin' It On, about a former leader of the Black Panther Party who was falsely imprisoned for 19 years. This film won over two dozen major awards and received a national broadcast on POV. John went on to direct the first hour of the four-hour ITVS funded documentary series Making Peace about grassroots activists creating innovative ways to stop violence in their communities. Valadez also directed The Divide, the first hour of the nationally broadcast four-hour PBS series entitled Matters of Race. John has twice been a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, is a Rockefeller Fellow, a PBS/CPB Producers Academy Fellow and currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. John is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and is a graduate of the film program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Sam Pollard (Editorial Consultant) is a documentary producer/director and a feature film editor who teaches film studies at New York University. His feature film and documentary accomplishments span thirty years. He has been awarded several Emmys, a George Peabody Award and been nominated for an Academy Award. Sam Pollard co-produced Terror and Triumph from the Emmy-nominated PBS series The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, which spans African-American history from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. His producing credits include Spike Lee's ACADEMY and Emmy Award-nominated Four Little Girls, which documents the infamous 1964 Alabama black church bombing by the Ku Klux Klan that killed four young girls. Mr. Pollard's other credits include Blackside, Inc.'s Eyes On The Prize II: America At The Racial Crossroads, for which he won an Emmy Award for writing. Pollard, with Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer, was honored with the Pare Lorentz Award for Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, a documentary about the visionary pioneer, crusader and advocate of nonviolence in the struggle for racial justice in the 1940s. Mr. Pollard has been editor of several feature films, including Clockers, Iron Mike, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, and Girl 6. He also co-produced Spike Lee’s Jim Brown All-American. Greg Robinson is Assistant Professor of History, University of Quebec At Montreal. Greg Robinson, assistant professor of history at the University of Quebec, author of By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Harvard University Press, 2001). Publishers Weekly calls his book a “lucid, comprehensive and balanced examination” of Roosevelt's decision and the influences upon him: “Conscientious arguments and meticulous documentation movingly clarify a little-understood failure of American democracy.” He has helped organized the Historians' Committee for Fairness, an organization of scholars and professional researchers, who have debated recent efforts by government appointees and authors to justify the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.
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"OTHER, OTHER…" screening and panel at Hostos Art Gallery June 6, 2008 6:00 PM Rising Up: the Alams screening at NYC Grassroots Media Conference March 2, 2008 12:15 PM Rising Up: The Alams at MNN's Digital Garden Summer August 16, 2007 8:00 PM OUT OF STATUS premiere at Pioneer Theater August 1, 2007 9:00 PM |
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