Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hello to everyone at YPFP. I'm very honored that our film
'A Whisper To A Roar' has been selected to be shown at your screening. your screen
among all the amazing people that you've had there, it's a wonderful honer
and congratulations on YPFP for what it is and what
it stands for and what it does and i'm grateful that we have this organization
creating new international diplomats on our behalf.
Let me tell you a little bit about the film
before you see it.
The concept was essentially this
i was fascinated as a filmmaker
as to why anyone would stand in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square for example
in in 1989
what motivated activist too
take their life in their hands and their
livelihood in their hands and stand against a government with tanks and guns
at its side.
and so luckily doctor Larry Diamond at Stanford University who is
as you probably know a world-renowned expert on the subject
of democracy
and i got together and
the interest between what makes autocrat an autocrat
the fact that
everyone can become corrupted - even you be careful -
when they get power
and what happens when they do and they hurt the people the fact that people
rise up and stand up and take
everything but arms against the government and sometimes even that which
in my opinion after making the film
non-violence is really the way to stand up against dictators we saw in
egypt for example
uh... so
putting those two together the idea of an autocrat
and the activists who stand against them
we wanted to show how universal the problem isn't in human nature
that is to say
corruption
the potential for corruption with power
and so we went to five countries on four different continents
five totally different cultural areas five totally different traditions
histories and yet showed the same problem in each case and that's
what you'll see in the film self
without me explain the rest of the film to you enjoy the next hour and a half well
enjoyed not really the word i hope it touches you helping educate you
and i hope it makes some meaningful change in your life going forward in in
he's a career that you've chosen. Thank you.