Category Archives: Film

Mine Your Own Business Premieres in Europe

Mine Your Own Business has its European premiere tonight at London’s Institute of Economic Affairs. In anticipation of the event, Irish journalist Rory Carroll reviewed the film in today’s Guardian, calling it "a polemical broadside against what it sees as the duplicity and unaccountability of non-governmental organisations." MPI hopes that this bold, provocative film will [...]

Hammer & Tickle to Tour with German Film Festival

Hammer & Tickle, Ben Lewis’ critically acclaimed documentary about the history of humor under communism, has been picked up by Berlin-based media distribution company EYZ Media for theatrical release in Germany. Working with Aktion Mensch, a national welfare organization, EYZ Media will be curating a series of three film festivals between November 2006 and November [...]

Mine Your Own Business Wraps Up Campus Tour

Tonight’s screening of Mine Your Own Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, wraps up an eight-campus U.S. tour held in association with MPI. Since October 17th, the filmmakers have screened and discussed the film at Michigan State University, Lansing, MI; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; the University of Wisconsin, [...]