What They’re Saying About Us...
-Giordano, The Juice Media
Wurundjeri lands, Australia
Franklin López has inspired us and media activists around the world with his heartfelt, no-bullshit way of covering Indigenous and grassroots resistance movements, so we couldn't be more excited about his new project: Amplifier. Fuck yeah.
-Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel
Filmmaker, Kanien’kehá:ka Nation Turtle Clan
Amplifier will help Indigenous people gain some knowledge so that they can create their own documentaries and amplify their voices against colonial powers. It is worth your support, and it will help strengthen the movement for Indigenous people across Canada and around the world.
Communications and countering the insidious propaganda of the ruling class are essential for resistance movements. Amplifier will strengthen the ability of grassroots social movements to communicate effectively and mobilize people in their struggles.
-Gord Hill
Kwakwaka'wakw, Artist, Activist, Author of The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book
-Sam Vinal
Executive Producer Yintah
I have had the privilege of collaborating with Amplifier team members on projects spanning from Honduras to the Wet'suwet'en Nation. Working with them on solidarity films has been a joy, thanks to their deep trust within social movements and their exceptional professional film expertise.
– Shanipiap
Innu musician and land defender
It’s not easy to get people to listen, let alone to understand. But you heard the Innu’s heartfelt cry and came to Territory 59 near Dolbeau-Mistassini. The films you make are an incredible tool for communication between Indigenous peoples all over the world. With your help, maybe—finally—for us Innu, we’ll be heard, and we’ll be able to protect the ancestral forest in Saguenay.
As Frank’s colleagues, former collaborators, and as the humble stewards of a seditious media empire that he founded and built from the ground up... we’re excited to see what comes next! For decades, Franklin Lopez has been one of the most talented, innovative and influential anarchist filmmakers around. And we have no doubt whatsoever that his new project, Amplifier Films, will continue to break new ground, while spotlighting anti-colonial struggles and holding gangster capitalists’ feet to the flame. Let’s go!
-The subMedia Collective
-Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas
Filmmaker, Kanien’kehá:ka Nation
Amplifier will be just that, an amplification of suppressed Indigenous voices having a medium to communicate struggles and teach about their experiences as Indigenous people. Amplifier will be a much-needed platform to keep our voices heard.
-Antimídia Collective
Brazil
Antimídia would likely never have existed had we not been inspired by Franklin Lopez incredible work in creating radical films. We're eagerly looking forward to seeing Amplifier Films inspiring and helping even more people around the globe to make their own voices heard.
López has been at the forefront of activist media-making for more than three decades. The Amplifier project is sure to become an urgently needed addition to the field of activist media production, training, and dissemination, and we can’t wait to see it come to life.
-Steve Presence
Convenor, Radical Film Network
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