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.

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