First release of documentary Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC, coincides with run up to 2008 US presidential election

IndiePixfilms, the internet-based distributor of independent films, has announced the release of Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC, a unique and powerful documentary that explores the historical relationship between the city, political activism and music. The film presents a ‘time capsule’ of the music and politics that shaped New York City in the summer of 2004 when millions took to the streets to protest the Republican National Convention in the City.

Filmmaker Roy Szuper’s new focus is car that uses air for fuel (Daily News | NY Local)

Shiva Vencat and Roy Szuper met two years ago while watching their sons play soccer. Because of that meeting, Szuper, an Astoria, Queens-born filmmaker, will show the first 10 minutes of what could turn out to be a movie documentary of major historical importance at the Cannes Film Festival this month. “Imagine if someone was next to Henry Ford, filming while he was making the Model T and starting to create a whole industry,” said Vencat.
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Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC (DVD Review, Punk Magazine)

In 1969, feminist theorist Carol Hanisch wrote an essay entitled “The Personal is Political,” giving two things to the burgeoning Women’s Liberation movement: a clear-cut, easily defined ideology and more important an easily remember slogan with which they could expound it.