Controversial documentary U.N. ME to deliver hard hitting and disarming humor at 10th Annual New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth.
(Portsmouth, NH – October 4, 2010) Disruptive Pictures announced today its critically acclaimed documentary U.N. ME, a lacerating, outrageous and darkly funny look at the failures and corruption of the United Nations, will screen at the New Hampshire Film Festival.
“When the United Nations was founded more than sixty years ago, it embodied our hope for a safer, more peaceful world,” said Ami Horowitz, U.N. ME filmmaker. “But as reports of human rights violations and international conflicts make daily headlines, we have to ask: Is the United Nations living up to its founding ideals?”
U.N. ME takes audiences on a harrowing and darkly humorous tour of the U.N.’s scandalous disregard for the people and principles it was founded to defend.
Among the revelations in this expose are:
- U.N. peacekeeping troops stationed in Cote d’Ivoire fired into a crowd of unarmed protesters, injuring and killing dozens.
- The largest U.N. humanitarian effort ever conceived, the Oil for Food Program, devolved into the largest corruption scandal in history.
- The organization that should be at the forefront of efforts to eradicate terrorism cannot define what "terrorism” is.
- U.N.’s Human Rights Council has prolonged the genocide in Darfur by attempting to discredit the urgent recommendations of its own investigative team.
Framed by Ami Horowitz’s outrageous exploits around the world, U.N. ME delivers a maddening, yet eye-opening and irreverent account of how the world’s foremost humanitarian organization has been co-opted by dictators,
thugs, and tyrants to line their own pockets, thwart peace and pursue their
own contemptible agendas.
For more information on this powerful film, visit http://www.unmemovie.com
For information about the 10th Annual New Hampshire Film Festival, visit
http://www.nhfilmfestival.com
