Re: Documentary Film Telephone Pre-Interview?

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Rebecca Wexler <rebecca.wexler@gmail.com> wrote:

Are you available to chat on the phone at some point this afternoon?
Still at 512-560-2302? I would like to come with my DP and do some
filming, but it would be helpful to touch base about scheduling etc.
Is there a time when I could call that would be convenient for you?

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Starting today, just got to Brooklyn.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8sGb871DT0k
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Rebecca Wexler <rebecca.wexler@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Great news. Which week?
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, barri2009 <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'll be reasonably free during my stay in NYC, where I'll be for about a
>> > week.
>> > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Rebecca Wexler <rebecca.wexler@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:43:33
>> > To: Barrett Brown<barriticus@gmail.com>
>> > Subject: Re: Documentary Film Telephone Pre-Interview?
>> >
>> > Hi Barrett,
>> >
>> > We spoke a few months ago about the film that I am producing
>> > about civil liberties and civil disobedience on the Internet. I read
>> > that you may be coming to the NY area. If so, I wonder if it might be
>> > possible to arrange to film an interview with you? I have been
>> > following your work over the past number of months and think you have
>> > been doing some fascinating things. I would love to have the
>> > opportunity to discuss them with you in person, and on camera. What
>> > is your schedule and availability over the upcoming weeks?
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Rebecca
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Rebecca Wexler
>> > <rebecca.wexler@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Wow, I've started reading this and it looks very interesting. I'm
>> >> looking forward to reading it more carefully over the next couple of
>> >> days. Thanks for sending it, and thank you for taking the time to
>> >> speak with me yesterday. I very much appreciate the things you had to
>> >> say. I look forward to being in touch.
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >> Rebecca
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Romas/COIN
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Rebecca Wexler
>> >>> <rebecca.wexler@gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Great. How about tomorrow at 5?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>> > Sure, you can give me a call at 512-560-2302.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Wexler, Rebecca
>> >>>> > <r.wexler@yale.edu<mailto:r.wexler@yale.edu>> wrote:
>> >>>> > Rebecca Wexler
>> >>>> > Information Society Project
>> >>>> > Yale Law School
>> >>>> > P.O. Box 208215
>> >>>> > New Haven, CT 06520
>> >>>> > Email r.wexler@yale.edu<mailto:r.wexler@yale.edu>
>> >>>> > Tel. 1 203 710 8562<tel:1%20203%20710%208562>
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > 27 June 2011
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Dear Mr. Brown,
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > My name is Rebecca Wexler. I am a documentary filmmaker and Fellow
>> >>>> > at
>> >>>> > the Yale University Law School Information Society Project where I
>> >>>> > teach
>> >>>> > visual advocacy. I am beginning work with Oscar-nominated PBS
>> >>>> > Frontline
>> >>>> > Producer/Director Helen Whitney on a documentary film about civil
>> >>>> > liberties
>> >>>> > and civil disobedience on the Internet.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > You may already be acquainted with Helens work. She has been
>> >>>> > making
>> >>>> > films for network television over the last thirty years. In the
>> >>>> > last decade,
>> >>>> > she has produced a series of PBS specials: John Paul II: the
>> >>>> > Millennial
>> >>>> > Pope, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, and the four hour series,
>> >>>> > The
>> >>>> > Mormons. Her films have won Peabodys, DuPonts and Emmys. Most
>> >>>> > recently,
>> >>>> > Helen and I worked together completing a three hour PBS special,
>> >>>> > Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate, about
>> >>>> > forgiveness,
>> >>>> > transitional justice, and global reconciliation after genocide,
>> >>>> > which aired
>> >>>> > in April. That film introduced us to the ongoing risks of
>> >>>> > post-9/11 abuses
>> >>>> > of justice, and is an intimate part of our wanting to make this
>> >>>> > film about
>> >>>> > civil liberties and Internet governance. More specifically, I
>> >>>> > became
>> >>>> > particularly interested in Anonymous in December when I wrote this
>> >>>> > article
>> >>>> > about Operation Payback:
>> >>>> > http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/post-wiki-world-part-ii
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Ive read some of your interesting writing about Anonymous
>> >>>> > activities.
>> >>>> > While I understand that you are no longer directly associated with
>> >>>> > any
>> >>>> > Anonymous initiatives, I would like the opportunity to speak with
>> >>>> > you about
>> >>>> > your opinions about these actions and the recent LulzSec
>> >>>> > contributions.
>> >>>> > What are the possibilities, the limitations, and the symbolic
>> >>>> > complexities
>> >>>> > of using DDoS attacks and other technical exploits as forms of
>> >>>> > protest?
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > On a somewhat unrelated note, Im also curious about the science &
>> >>>> > journalism project initiative of Project PM. After studying
>> >>>> > history and
>> >>>> > philosophy of science and becoming aware of some of the failures of
>> >>>> > the
>> >>>> > scientific press (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18761279) I
>> >>>> > began
>> >>>> > working in doc film with the personal mission of creating better
>> >>>> > science and
>> >>>> > technology documentaries. One of my former mentors, Jon Beckwith
>> >>>> > at Harvard
>> >>>> > Medical School, is a longtime activist with Science for the
>> >>>> > People and
>> >>>> > runs an organization of scientists in the Boston area who work
>> >>>> > towards
>> >>>> > improving science content in media. Perhaps he would be interested
>> >>>> > in your
>> >>>> > initiative. In any case, I am curious to hear more about your work
>> >>>> > in this
>> >>>> > area as well.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Might it be possible to arrange a phone conversation at your
>> >>>> > earliest
>> >>>> > possible convenience? I would like to conduct a telephone
>> >>>> > pre-interview
>> >>>> > with you, and discuss the possibility of your appearing in our
>> >>>> > film.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Thank you very much for your time. I look forward to hearing from
>> >>>> > you.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Sincerely,
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Rebecca Wexler
>> >>>> > Fellow, Yale University Law School Information Society Project
>> >>>> > Producer/Director, Helen Whitney Productions
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > HELEN WHITNEY
>> >>>> > Producer and Director
>> >>>> > Helen Whitney has worked as a producer, director and writer for
>> >>>> > documentaries and feature films for over 30 years. Her documentary
>> >>>> > work has
>> >>>> > appeared on ABC's Closeup and on the PBS series, American Masters,
>> >>>> > Frontline
>> >>>> > and American Experience. Her documentaries have extended across a
>> >>>> > variety of
>> >>>> > subjects, among them: youth gangs, presidential candidates, the
>> >>>> > mentally
>> >>>> > ill, a Trappist Monastery, Pope John Paul II, the class structure
>> >>>> > of Great
>> >>>> > Britain, the aftershocks of 9/11, and the photographer Richard
>> >>>> > Avedon.
>> >>>> > Whitney's documentaries and features have received many honors,
>> >>>> > including an
>> >>>> > Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, an Oscar nomination, the Humanitas
>> >>>> > Award and
>> >>>> > the prestigious duPont-Columbia Journalism Award.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > REBECCA WEXLER
>> >>>> > Producer and Director
>> >>>> > Rebecca Wexler is a Fellow at the Yale Law School Information
>> >>>> > Society
>> >>>> > Project. She holds an M.Phil in history of science from Cambridge
>> >>>> > University (Gates-Cambridge Fellow) and a B.A. from Harvard College
>> >>>> > (summa
>> >>>> > cum laude). She has worked with filmmakers Richard Leacock, Alex
>> >>>> > Gibney,
>> >>>> > Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Helen Whitney, and Michael Epstein on
>> >>>> > documentaries
>> >>>> > distributed by PBS/American Experience, PBS/WETA,HBO, VH1, and
>> >>>> > Verve. She
>> >>>> > has produced and directed documentaries for the Yale Art Gallery,
>> >>>> > La Maison
>> >>>> > Européenne de la Photographie, and the Long Wharf Theatre. She
>> >>>> > currently
>> >>>> > teaches a Yale Law School practicum on visual advocacy and the
>> >>>> > intersection
>> >>>> > of law and film.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > --
>> >>>> > Regards,
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Barrett Brown
>> >>>> > 512-560-2302
>> >>>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>>
>> >>> Barrett Brown
>> >>> 512-560-2302
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Barrett Brown
> 512-560-2302
>