By Daily Press staff
The 9/11 tragedy will be explored through art and analysis in Santa Monica. A documentary film festival with live music, performers, and vendors will highlight recent developments in research into the realities of 9/11 not covered in the 9/11 Commission report. The 911truthla.us Music and Film Festival will offer eight hours of recent documentaries, interspersed with live music, theater, and dancers. The sponsor, 911truthla.us convened the historic first Citizens’ Grand Jury on the crimes of 9/11, which brought together researchers from around the world. Kathleen Rosenblatt, event coordinator, hopes that the documentaries will be lightened somewhat by the live performances, in an effort to temper the message to those who are new to confronting this issue.
In addition to the multiple events at the festival, highlights from C-Span’s repeated broadcast of Professor David Ray Griffin’s 9/11 lecture will be seen. Author of The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 and The 9/11 Commission: Omissions and Distortions, Griffin is one of the many voices accusing the Bush administration of a sinister complicity in the attacks, added Rosenblatt. Among the festival presentations will be a revised documentary by researcher Eric Hufschmid, whose 2002 “Painful Deceptions” provided scientific analysis of the physical evidence on the 9/11 attacks. The Festival will feature the theater group “Billionaires for Bush,” rock band Mutant Press, a John Lennon tribute by Tim Biancalana, Capoeira & hoop dancers, and soloists.
The festival will take place on Sunday June 12 at 4 p.m. at the Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street (at 2nd Street) in Santa Monica. Lend a helping hand to the elderly
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 4, 2005. Read the original PDF.