Beginning with Noam Chomsky's response to a college student who role-plays "Jane U.S.A."--someone who naively believes she lives in a democratic society in which she can create her own destiny--the viewer is presented with a cross-section of typically lively Chomsky encounters. Central to a functioning democracy is the necessity of free access to information, ideas and opinions. But what should be our democratic right turns out to be limited and shaped by the biases of insitutions and ideologies within the mass media. Chomsky shows how governments, corporations and other elites manufacture the consent of the public to serve their interests.
Cast
Crew
Mark Achbar
Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Animation
Peter Wintonick
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
Norbert Bunge
Director of Photography
Kirk Tougas
Director of Photography
Savas Kalogeras
Director of Photography
Barry Perles
Director of Photography
Francis Miquet
Director of Photography, Producer
Antonin Lhotsky
Director of Photography
Ken Reeves
Director of Photography
Kip Durrin
Director of Photography
Colin Neale
Producer
Adam Symansky
Producer
Brian Duchscherer
Animation
Wendy Tilby
Animation
Joan Churchill
Animation
Leigh Crisp
Sound
Hans Oomes
Sound
Jacques Drouin
Sound
Rob Silverthorne
Sound
Gary Marcuse
Sound
Carl Schultz
Music
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