[Netnews-action] 23 Feb: Tameside Youths Demonise Adults - A Film - A Fright - A Future ?

[Manchester Campaigns]

sorry but we don't know what times this is showing. pls ring the Hip...
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> From: Stephen Kingston <stephenk at care4free.net>

> 
> GROUNDED – a feature film…a fright…a genuine feeling from young
> working class people of what’s facing them around the political
> corner…
> 
> World Premiere 23rd February 2006
> 
> Tameside Hippodrome, Ashton-u-Lyne
> 

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> The year: 2009
> 
> Verna (13 year old leader of child outlaws, the Little Ghosts): I
> thought this was all your great plan, the revolution for the country…
> The gene – it’s all rubbish isn’t it ?…Just a backdrop for your great
> plan for the future…
> 
> Eva Hardart (Minister of Youth Affairs): No, it’s not true…the gene
> exists…we’ve been doing the research for years..
> 
> Verna: OK, if it exists how come your kids don’t have it ? Or the
> Prime Minister’s kids…Come on…
> 
> Eva: Test results have shown…
> 
> Verna: …that on council estates…scrag-ends…kids from single parent
> families …poor black kids…have this gene…Listen to yourself woman… you
> make me sick…
> 
> Eva: But we’ve done the research for years…respected physicians,
> professors…we’ve been helping young people, not killing them…
> 
>  
> 
> GROUNDED…the shocking biological future with its footprint already on
> our doorsteps…
> 
> The year: 2006
> 
> Greater Manchester Police admits that 196 ten year olds have had gene
> samples taken from them in the last 12 months. No parental consent was
> necessary. Nationally 24,000 children aged 10 -18 have also had gene
> samples taken and stored on the National DNA Data Base. None of these
> children have been convicted of any crime. This practice is banned in
> every other country in Europe, including Scotland. 
> 
> "Youth crime is declining…it’s hard to believe given the fear agenda I
> think the Government has" says Janet Batsleer of ASBO Concern "It’s
> much more to do with targetting and putting across a view that young
> people in our poorest communities are a threat to the rest of us…"
> 
>  
> 
> GROUNDED – the feature film – devised by young working class people
> from Tameside…young people, aged 13 –17, who are the most vulnerable
> members of society…These are young people who have found this project
> through Tameside Youth Service, Positive Activities for Young People
> and by word of mouth. They’ve never acted before. They’ve never
> devised a feature film before. But they’re tuned into the angst of the
> early 21st Century. They know what’s coming…
> 
> GROUNDED - THE FINAL SOLUTION…
> 
> …Riding high on a tide of fear, the recently formed Social Democratic
> Party has won the 2009 General Election promising a final solution to
> the `Youth Problem’. Headed by the Minister for Youth Affairs, Eva
> Hardart, the solution is to identify those children carrying the
> `Anti-Social Behaviour Gene’, remove them from their homes and intern
> them in treatment camps (Step Rehabilitation Centres) using chemical
> behaviour modifiers to to target the gene.
> 
> GROUNDED follows the story of Luke, a young internee who has escaped
> from the Ashton S.R.U., persued by the Guardians – a private police
> force funded by Wonderkind Pharmaceuticals and led by the psychotic Mr
> Lizar. Luke finds himself on Saddleworth Moor where he is taken in by
> a community of outlaw children (Little Ghosts)…But when the worlds of
> Eva Hardart, the Guardians, Luke and the Little Ghosts collide, the
> unpalatable truth about the UK’s brave new vision begins to emerge…
> 
> GROUNDED – stars young people from Tameside and features professional
> actors Janine Birkett (Billy Elliot), Neil Bell (Shameless) and former
> British Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Michael Murray. 
> 
> Grounded – produced by REELmcr in partnership with Tameside Youth
> Service…
> 
> "The purpose of of REELmcr project is not to challenge anti-social
> behaviour but to promote social behaviour" Terry Egan, Director
> REELmcr
> 
> Further media details, photos, interviews, press tickets, trailers etc
> 
> Contact: Stephen Kingston
> 
> Grounded Press Dept
> 
> 0161 792 8956
> 07957 982960 
> 
> stephenk at care4free.net 
>