The director's want to hear from everyone.
Documentary by Non-Witness
by darcy 5 Replies latest jw friends
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darcy
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jwfacts
The website says
By fighting for their right to live and worship as they choose, Jehovah's Witnesses won legal victories that protected civil liberties and free choice for all Americans.
It is a pity it does not go on to add that the organization then removes those exact rights from its members by forcing them to shun ex members, limit association with worldly people, and create a long list of laws on JW behaviour ranging from clothing, music, entertainment etc. -
jwfacts
I just sent an extensive email and offered my services as an Advisor. When you sign up here is the email that you recieve. It seems very onesided, I wonder if it is a JW, and this is witnessing by stealth.
KNOCKING DOCUMENTARY NEWSLETTER #1 SUMMER 2005
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>Thanks for your interest in the KNOCKING documentary about Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm Joel Engardio, director of the project. Since the www.knocking.org web site went live recently, I've been hearing from interested ones from Arizona to Arkansas and everywhere in between. The site is new, and is still a work-in-progress. Check back from time to time to see new features, including the film clip downloads.
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>SPREAD THE WORD
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>Please forward the link www.knocking.org far and wide. Beyond a national broadcast on public television (PBS) in the United States, our goal is to make the film available to international audiences with language subtitles. Indeed, Jehovah's Witnesses are in more than 200 lands, and their story about blood, the Holocaust and preservation of civil liberties resonates around the globe.
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>OUR GOAL
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>The aim of KNOCKING is to give a general, non-Jehovah's Witness audience a fair look at a religious group that has long been misunderstood and relegated to cartoonish stereotypes. KNOCKING uses the real life stories of real families to humanize Jehovah's Witnesses. But we donÂ’t shy from criticism. Our aim is that everything is fair and accurate. We show both the ups and downs, including what it is like for Witnesses who have unbelieving or opposing family members, and how divided families can find common ground. For instance, the young man who undergoes a groundbreaking bloodless liver transplant has opposing family members who come to the hospital to see first-hand how the new bloodless technology works.
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>WHO SHOULD WATCH
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>KNOCKING will be educational and illuminating for a non-Jehovah's Witness audience. Extended family, neighbors, co-workers and classmates of JehovahÂ’s Witnesses will certainly be interested to take a look. Closer to time of broadcast, we will offer DVDs for home and school use. The DVD will be a feature-length version of the film (the broadcast on PBS will be shorter) and will include extras like expanded interviews. WeÂ’ll be sure to send more details on that later.
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>PRODUCTION HISTORY
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>As of Summer 2005, the film is being edited in San Francisco. Throughout the course of the project, we filmed in California, Georgia, Ohio, New York, Nevada, and Texas as well as Austria and Poland. We filmed in Kingdom Halls, conventions and in the door-to-door ministry.
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>WE ARE INDEPENDENT
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>Keep in mind that every Jehovah's Witness who has contributed to this film, either on camera or behind the scenes, has done so by their own personal choice. There is no official connection to the Watchtower Society, though the Bethel organization in Brooklyn, Patterson and Wallkill, New York has been cooperative with the producers of this film. We interviewed Watchtower representatives on camera and filmed inside Bethel. Watchtower has no financial ties to this project, nor any editorial control. It is important to know that this project is independently produced for public television, using a combination of public, foundation and individual funds. No one on the production staff is a Jehovah's Witness. The director's mother, however, is a Witness. And we do have Jehovah's Witnesses who are serving as consultants for factual accuracy. We also have academic, historical and medical consultants who are experts in their field but not Jehovah's Witnesses.
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>HOW TO SEE IT
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>We intend to premiere KNOCKING at a prestigious film festival such as Sundance in early 2006. A national television broadcast on PBS will follow. And the film will be made available on DVD. We also hope to bring KNOCKING to cities throughout the United States in 2006 for special screenings. This will be a chance for you to see a sneak preview and perhaps meet some of the film's subjects in a live Q&A session. The KNOCKING web site and these newsletters will provide updated information about where and when the sneak previews will take place. If you are interested in volunteering to organize such a screening in your city, contact us directly at [email protected]. Please type “Volunteer” in the subject heading.
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>We look forward to seeing the positive impact this film has in telling the untold stories of Jehovah's Witnesses. We hope you do, too. Thanks again for contacting us, and the KNOCKING staff will be sure to keep you up to date on the latest progress.
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>Sincerely,
>Joel P. Engardio
>Producer/Director
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darcy,
Joel HAS heard from many here. But thanks. Incidently, he grew up as a jw. His mom is still a jw. He isn't exactly biased. And this doc isn't exactly telling the whole truth.
There are several threads on this documentary. The easiest way to find them is typing in 'knocking org jehovah's' into google. Several threads should pop right up.
sKally
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jwfacts
When you sign up there is a survey. If you say you are a former JW there are some intelligent questions on why you left that are not in JW loaded language. It will be very interesting if the results are ever published.
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Highlander
That auto-email reply sounds very pro-jw, with a touch of preaching in it.