{"id":8345,"date":"2018-03-25T01:48:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T01:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2018-03-25T01:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T01:50:54","slug":"hold-me-down-and-the-potential-for-films-about-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2018\/03\/25\/hold-me-down-and-the-potential-for-films-about-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hold Me Down&#8221; and the potential for films about real life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the chance to see the both touching an brutal film about a 19-year old single mother who tries to survive in the South Bronx working as a stripper. The film was outstanding, and compact. It raised the critical question of whether it is possible to make films and news reports about real life, rather than fantastic PR material. These days, even the so-called progressive media is touched up to avoid the ugly and the cruel. Yet only with such media will be start to confront the truth and launch into a positive cycle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hold Me Down (full film)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/260152988?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"691\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"first\">&#8220;Hold Me Down&#8221;\u00a0 is filmed in the locations where the events depicted actually occurred; in the Mott Haven Housing Projects and in an actual brothel, and features a cast of non-actors \/ women survivors of sexual exploitation and domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by More Media (<a href=\"http:\/\/moremedia.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">moremedia.tv<\/a>), The Collectif, and Bob Film Sweden with support from IFP, the Swedish Film Institute and Sveriges Television.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8348\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hold-me-down_fotosteve-annis_810.jpeg\" alt=\"hold-me-down_fotosteve-annis_810\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hold-me-down_fotosteve-annis_810.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hold-me-down_fotosteve-annis_810-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hold-me-down_fotosteve-annis_810-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the chance to see the both touching an brutal film about a 19-year old single mother who tries to survive in the South Bronx working as a stripper. The film was outstanding, and compact. It raised the critical question of whether it is possible to make films and news reports about real life, &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;Hold Me Down&#8221; and the potential for films about real life\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2018\/03\/25\/hold-me-down-and-the-potential-for-films-about-real-life\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8220;Hold Me Down&#8221; and the potential for films about real life\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}