Call for Young Filmmakers: The Anti-Communist Film Festival
The Anti-Communist Film Festival is set to take place later this year, aiming to attract young filmmakers. Sponsored by the Victims of Communism Foundation, the festival will highlight themes of artistic freedom and the dangers of censorship. The centerpiece of the event will be the film 'The Lives of Others,' which explores the oppressive nature of the East German Stasi.
- ▪The festival is intended to be an annual event for young, freedom-loving filmmakers.
- ▪The centerpiece film, 'The Lives of Others,' won the Best Foreign Film Oscar and critiques the Stasi's brutalities.
- ▪The festival's organizers are currently raising funds through a GoFundMe campaign.
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Call for Young Filmmakers: The Anti-Communist Film Festival Mark Judge 1:00 PM | May 16, 2026 AP Photo/Jacques Langevin, File Later this year, we will be holding an Anti-Communist Film Festival. The official sponsor is the Victims of Communism Foundation. Our GoFundMe fundraiser is going strong. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); We will have dates, films, and a website soon. We also want this to be an annual event that attracts young filmmakers. I was born in 1964 and grew up during the Cold War, and when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, I assumed - along with everyone else - that it signaled the end of the communist delusion. I was wrong.
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