Former Black Panther CA governor candidate Alexander has Academy Award contender support

California Green Party member and former Black Panther member, Deacon Alexander, bypassed the traditional press corps and announced his decision to run for Governor of California at a Green Party meeting in Orange County attended by PUNCTURED HOPE Film Director Bruno Pischiutta and Producer Daria Trifu to support Alexander.

Pischiutta and Trifu are presently in Los Angeles where their Academy Awards® qualified feature film, PUNCTURED HOPE is screening at the Laemmle Monica 4-Plex.

Alexander, who attended a PUNCTURED HOPE screening with his campaign manager Sandy Stiassni, declared that he will “not rest until the Black Magic shrines are closed and slavery is forever abolished.”

It is Alexander's conviction that PUNCTURED HOPE “is Oscar® worthy”.

Present at Saturday's screening of the film was Coordinator for Amnesty International in Los Angeles, Mihoko Tokoro. She said about the film, “PUNCTURED HOPE is a very powerful and politically important feature film that the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Science should truly consider for a nomination this year.

"Such a nomination is not only deserved for a beautifully executed film but it will also help to raise the much needed attention, on a global scale, to the issue of women and children slavery in today's West Africa and of the genital mutilation of women in the world.

Green Party peace, equality and environmental values to end racism and poverty

"We need to reach out, inform and get the support of the global community to create an equal world where human rights and human dignity are respected," said Pischiutta.

"Through the medium of film, PUNCTURED HOPE, represents a great tool to reach out to the general public for support. I commend the work of the film’s director and producer who made this great film and fight, step by step, to raise awareness to the issues it addresses.”

Pischiutta stated, “We, as a company, want to win the fight against ignorance and bigotry. I want to use film as an artistic weapon to improve the lifestyle and mentality of the viewers, to make their life better and to make them think in a positive way about major social problems that anguish our world today.

"I want that the rights of women and children are respected. I want to fight intellectual pollution, stupidity, racism and discrimination. I want to show that nonviolent film can be commercially viable and it can help to make a better world.”

Recently nominated by the Political Film Society of Hollywood in the categories of 'best film exposé and 'best film on human rights' of 2009, PUNCTURED HOPE has been screening in Los Angeles since November. The last two scheduled screenings of the film are on January 9 and 10 at 11:00 am at the Laemmle Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica.

“Breaking new barriers and as yet another proof of our commitment to our cause. We are opening the doors and giving free access to our Sunday, January 10th screening of the film at the Laemmle Monica 4-Plex to the Santa Monica homeless men and women," stated Pischiutta.

"We welcome them to come and watch PUNCTURED HOPE. Our cause is driven by high ideals and it is more important than anyone of us. It is a new world; it is time for a new morality.”

Santa Monica residents and founders of the Films4Change, Rachel Sene and Jay Johnson have been present at two of the film’s screenings together with guests. Members of the group meet monthly in Los Angeles for dinner, private screenings of political and socially conscious films, and discussion. The couple welcomes freethinkers, secular humanists, skeptics, and inquiring minds.

Alexander and the Black Panthers

Deacon Alexander was a California gubernatorial candidate in the June 8 primary. He is a strong social justice activist, former Black Panther advocate, and LA Green Party member.

The original vision of the Black Panther Party was to serve needs of the oppressed and defend them against their oppressors, similar to Green Party key values that focues on of peace, equality and the environment.

Active in the U.S. from mid-1960's into the 1970's, the Black Panther Party achieved national and international fame through its involvement in the Black Power movement and in U.S. politics of the era. The Black Power movement is considered one of the most significant social, political and cultural movements in U.S. history. (See Wikipedia)

The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program called for human rights including "Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice and Peace, plus exemption from conscription for African-American men.

According to the Church Committee Congressional investigative records, the FBI Cointelpro targeted Black Panther members and the organization by applying its tactics to discredit and destroy the organization including assassination. (Read Paul Wolf, The FBI'S Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party, including SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILED STAFF REPORTS ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS, April 1976)

Maestro Bruno Pischiutta is an Internationally Awarded Film Director, International Academician, Founder of Toronto Pictures. (See IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0994395)

Noted as a 'Company with a Conscience,' Toronto Pictures (PINK: TTOPF) targets a global audience and explores different cultures and addresses controversial issues of our time in a dramatic format. Toronto Pictures develops and releases Hollywood standard, 35 mm feature films that provoke thought, not violence.

WEBSITE: http://www.torontopictures.com

SOURCE Toronto Pictures Inc.

2008 Green Party U.S. Presidential Candidate and former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney expresses Green Party values and support of Green Party candidates in the presentation video below.