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Upheaval Productions is a video production house specializing in documentary and video journalism.

Upheaval Productions is a video production house based in San Francisco, CA specializing in documentary and video journalism. Believing there needs to be strong, independent voices in media, we are dedicated to producing material that covers underrepresented and/or misrepresented issues and distributing these stories to a wide audience.

10/05/2015

Did you catch our short doc "Out of Angola" on MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry show this weekend? If not, check it out here:

The First 72 Plus, an all-volunteer group of formerly incarcerated individuals, step in to help Louisiana's recently released prisoners through training and outreach.

10/01/2015

Watch our latest piece for MSNBC:

We follow Gregory Finney out of Louisiana's Angola Prison where he served 16 years of a life sentence for a non-violent drug crime. He returns to New Orleans with help from The First 72+, a transition program run by an all-volunteer group of formerly incarcerated people.

Each year 15,000 individuals will be released from the Louisiana prison system and almost half will return within 5 years. Gregory Finney will not be part of that statistic thanks to ‘The First72+’ program.

09/03/2015

Is overfishing responsible for this year's unprecedented die-off of California sea lions?

Watch our latest short news doc for MSNBC to find out.

Thousands of pup sea lions are suffering from severe malnutrition because there are less fish in the sea of the coast of California. David Zlutnick reports.

08/31/2015

Here's one of the short videos we shot for MSNBC while recently down in New Orleans:

Bille Dolce taught in New Orleans for 32 years before Katrina struck. She was fired right after the storm when the state took control of the school system. Now, in a city where nearly every student attends a charter school, she asks why her school was...

08/31/2015

Here's one of the short videos we shot for MSNBC while recently down in New Orleans:

Common Ground Relief, formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, works to restore Louisiana's coastal wetlands.

07/20/2015

This week folks from Apache Stronghold will be arriving in DC after a cross-country caravan to rally support in fighting the giveaway of sacred land to Resolution Copper. The issue is finally starting to get the coverage it deserves, with coverage in the NY Times, The Guardian, etc.

For background, here's the short documentary we produced on the subject for MSNBC back in April, including the group's first actions to draw attention to the land grab:

Oak Flat—once part of an Apache reservation—is considered sacred space by the local tribe but it was awarded to a mining company through a defense bill in 20...

04/16/2015

Tune in tomorrow to MSNBC's online channel Shift to watch our short documentary "Apache Spring: The Fight for Oak Flat" live on environmental show Greenhouse.

Show starts at 9a PST/ 12p EST and the doc should air around 9:20/12:20:

Stream online-only video and original programming about issues that matter: politics, elections, society and equality.

04/10/2015

Our latest short doc APACHE SPRING: THE FIGHT FOR OAK FLAT just went live on MSNBC.

The piece follows Apache protesters in Arizona as they march on and occupy Oak Flat - sacred land set to be destroyed by Resolution Copper, subsidiary of mining giant Rio Tinto.

Produced by David Zlutnick with Roger Hill.

Oak Flat—once part of an Apache reservation—is considered sacred space by the local tribe but it was awarded to a mining company through a defense bill in 2014 and will be completely destroyed. Now the tribe has occupied the land and refuses to leave,...

01/04/2014

An excellent article today from Truthout on the NAFTA border memorial project:

A group of artists marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on New Year's Day with an art installation at the US-Mexico border in San Diego pointing to increased numbers of death since the pact was signed.

01/01/2014

Check out this project/video just launched today:
A FUTURE MEMORIAL FOR NAFTA

video produced by Upheaval's David Zlutnick

For January 1st, 2014, the 20th anniversary of NAFTA, a group of anonymous activists and artists built a memorial at the border, marking the 20 years of death brought about by NAFTA and prefiguring the death of NAFTA itself.

11/05/2013

Iyad Burnat, one of the protagonists in the Oscar-nominated documentary 5 Broken Cameras, and the brother of the filmmaker, was one of several shot by Israeli forces with rubber-coated steel bullets during the weekly demonstration in Bil'in, Occupied West Bank.

Iyad was also interviewed in our documentary, Occupation Has No Future, as the then-chair of the Bil'in Popular Committee.

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06/27/2013

Did you like David Zlutnick's police militarization video report?
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=10231

Then you'll love this: "Welcome to the Police-Industrial Complex"
by Radley Balko
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/welcome-to-the-police-ind_n_3415442.html

Among items transfered to local law enforcement agencies have been assault rifles and gr***de launchers, even Blackhawk helicopters and .50 caliber machine guns; In fiscal year 2011 alone, the Pentagon transferred almost $500 million worth of materials to domestic law enforcement - near double the p...

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