This Is What Democracy Looks Like 23 years old

This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO's power to arbitrally overrule nations' environmental, social and labour policies in favour of unbridled corporate greed, protestors from all around came out in force to make their views known and stop the summit. Against them is a brutal police force and a hostile media as well as the stain of a minority of destructively overzealous comrades. Against all odds, the protesters bravely faced fierce opposition to take back the rightful democratic power that the political and corporate elite of the world is determined to deny the little people.

Credits

This Is What Democracy Looks Like Cast

Name Character
Susan Sarandon She was 54, now 77 years old as Narrator (voice)
Vandana Shiva She was 47, now 71 years old as Herself
Noam Chomsky He was 71, now 95 years old as Himself
Michael Franti He was 34, now 58 years old as Narrator (voice)

This Is What Democracy Looks Like Crew

Name Department
Jill Friedberg as Producer. Production
Rick Rowley as Director. Directing
Rick Rowley as Editor. Editing
Rick Rowley as Producer. Production
Jill Friedberg as Editor. Editing
Micaela McNulty as Production Design. Art
Paul McNulty as Production Design. Paul McNulty was 42 (now 66) years old Art
Joulie Wheeler as Production Design. Art
Luke Painter as Sound Director. Sound
Malcolm Sweeney as Sound Director. Sound
Craig Hymson as Additional Soundtrack. Sound
Jill Friedberg as Director. Directing
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like (23 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, October 12, 2000
  • Runtime: 72 minutes