Superpower
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Superpower Trailer
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Superpower is a well-executed and comprehensive film that asks tough questions and goes behind the scenes of America’s national security apparatus and military actions. Far from a conspiracy film about the dangers of government secrets and regime change, this well-balanced film straddles the philosophical divide and allows viewers to understand the US quest for global dominance through economic and military strategy that is exposed through review of historical events, personal interviews, and analysis of US foreign policy. The heart of Superpower lies in the analysis produced from a re-examination of history through a series of interviews with historians, documentarians, and academians such as Bill Blum, Chalmers Johnson, Michael Chossudovsky, and Noam Chomsky, and others with expertise in this subject such as the Executive Producer of The Unit, Command Sergeant (Ret.) Eric Haney; former Chief Economist for the US Department of Labor, Morgan Reynolds; three-time Noble Peace Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly; and Lt. Col. (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski. Examining key moments in America's history elicits a more consistent and plausible set of motives for US foreign policy actions guided by global expansion and military dominance, rather than the hyperbolic calls for democracy and totalitarian regime change that we have become so accustomed to hearing. Should citizens trust that their government will keep them safe, a government that keeps secrets, and lies, in the name of national security? Does the simple act of withholding information lead to a world of eroding civil liberties and corruption? Superpower presents a view of US foreign policy, which lies in stark contrast to that depicted by corporate media, popular pundits, and US heads of state. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the US has emerged as the preeminent superpower of the world. Superpower illustrates how the United States has chosen to leverage that position to pursue a grand strategy which will ensure itself unilateral world domination through absolute economic and military superiority. It shows a consistent pattern of government deception. The United States emerged from World War II with its industrial base still intact and the only nation with the atomic bomb. It was without question the most powerful country on earth. What was done with this unprecedented power, the effects it's had on our Republic and the rest of the world is the story of Superpower.
Matrix TV Interview
Superpower was featured on independent news station Matrix TV. The show aired across the US and Europe as a phone interview with producer Barbara-Anne Steegmuller and showed selected clips from the film. For more information on this show go to http://www.MatrixTV.com.
DOK Market Digital
Superpower was chosen by the selection committee for the "DOK Market Digital" in Leipzig, Germany. "DOK Market Digital" offers trade and professional visitors as well as international buyers the opportunity to view all films in the current festival program, as well as approximately 150 additionally selected international productions by genre. All DOK Market films are presented with a photograph and relevant sales information in the DOK Market Catalog. During the festival week the DOK Market Catalogue is issued to all trade and professional visitors and, following the festival, the catalogue is sent to a further 150 international commissioning editors and distributors. Writing Tradition
Francis Steegmuller with wife Shirley Hazzard There is a family tradition for writing connected with this film. The executive producer/producer/director/writer, Barbara-Anne Steegmuller, has a background in research and journalism and is the first cousin-once-removed of the famous Flaubert scholar and writer, Francis Steegmuller (1906 - 1994). He lived in New York City with his second wife, writer Shirley Hazzard. Yale University and Columbia University hold his collected papers. His first wife was the painter Beatrice Stein, who had studied under the French cubist artist and printmaker, Jacques Villon.
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Awards 
SUPERPOWER won the 5th Annual Hollywood F.A.M.E. Award for Documentary of the Year 2011. The awards were presented at the Avalon Theater at Hollywood and Vine. 
SUPERPOWER won the 2011 32nd Annual People's Choice Bronze Telly Award. Voting was held for three weeks through YouTube.
SUPERPOWER was nominated for Best North American Documentary in The El Sawy International Film Festival Egypt. The festival took place in Cairo, Egypt at the El Sawy Culture Wheel. For more information about this festival go to: http://www.amritsa.com/e2.htm
SUPERPOWER won the overall festival award, The Director's Selection Award, in the Twin Cities Arts Festival in Kernersville, North Carolina.
Director of the festival, Gerald Scott, presenting the Director's Selection Award to the director of Superpower, Barbara-Anne Steegmuller.
SUPERPOWER has won Best Feature Documentary in the Moving Pictures Film Contest in Phoenix, Arizona. If you'd like to have more information about the contest and Moving Pictures Magazine go to http://www.movingpicturesfilmcontest.com and www.movingpicturesmagazine.com.
Moving Pictures Magazine President Margaret Tritch with Barbara-Anne Steegmuller receiving the Best Feature Documentary Award from Julianne Loof in Park City, Utah, January 18, 2009.
SUPERPOWER received an Honorable Mention in the program of the 2008 Route 66 International Film Festival, as one of the outstanding films that did not fit into the festival schedule, but deserved special recognition. This is the 7th annual festival for Route 66, and is held each year on the third weekend in September at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield, Illinois. For more information about this festival go to: http://www.route66filmfestival.net The August Sun Film & Television's "World Peace Film Festival" Promoting works that promote World Peace through Film and Television
Robert J. Locke, President of August Sun Productions and Director of the festival, presenting the Director Award to the director of Superpower, Barbara-Anne Steegmuller.
Held at The Crest Theatre, 1262 Westwood Boulevard, Aug. 24-Aug. 30, 2008 For more information about this festival go to: http://www.augustsunproductions.com/festival Festival Selection
SUPERPOWER was accepted to screen in the International South Africa Film Festival between November 2nd and November 8th 2009. A distribution deal picked up SUPERPOWER to show it by satellite throughout the African continent. |
