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Distress Signals
199054 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: John Walker
Production: Tom PerlmutterJohn WalkerKent MartinJohn Taylor
Script: Tom PerlmutterSteve Lucas
Co-produced by Orbit Films Ltd., the NFB and the CBC in association with Channel 4 and TVOntario.
A global television revolution is underway. Who controls what audiences tune into? At the moment, the reality is that two or three in New York or L.A. can impose their views on the world more forcefully than any politician. Distress Signals takes a penetrating look at the business of marketing television world-wide.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Social Problems
- Media and Communication > Television Broadcasting and Production
Credits
- director
- John Walker
- producer
- Tom Perlmutter
- John Walker
- Kent Martin
- executive producer
- John Taylor
- script
- Tom Perlmutter
- Steve Lucas
- cinematography
- Ned Burgess
- Nigel Markham
- John Walker
- sound
- Albert Bailey
- John Martin
- Aerlyn Weissman
- editing
- John Kramer
- Manfred Becker
- sound editing
- Anna Pafomow
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- Shelley Craig
- narrator
- Jackie Burroughs
- music
- Eric Lemoyne