The film will be coming out on DVD April 29, 2008, via Rivercoast Films. If you're in the Bay Area you can see it Friday at 7pm at on the Berkeley Campus in Valley Life Science 2050. Bobby Roth will host a Q and A afterwards.
Directors
Vittorio de Sica, John Cassavetes, Robert M. Young, Bertrand Blier, Mike Leigh, Costa-Gavras, Ingmar Bergman, and Rob Nilsson.
Awards
Many festival awards for Best Film and Best Independent Film for numerous shows
Festivals
Over one hundred international Film Festivals including Sundance five times...
Professional Affiliations
WGA, DGA, SAG
BERKELEY's Interests
General
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Peace.
Music
Soundtrack Featuring: Country Joe and the Fish, Tom Morello of Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, The Youngbloods, and Christopher Franke.
Movies
Truly independent films like Jack the Dog and Manhood
Television
Prison Break
Books
Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Tse Tung, Herman Hesse, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey
Heroes
"Pity the age that needs heroes," Brecht from Galileo
About me: Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his conservative world upside down and leaves him on a path of exploration and self-discovery, far from the life of his father, Sy Sweet (Henry Winkler).
It co-stars Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello and the beautiful Sarah Carter, as well as a stellar supporting cast featuring Bonnie Bedelia, Laura Jordan, Sebastian Tillinger, Jake Newton, Wade Allain Marcus, and Sarah Bibb.
The film depicts a group of young people fighting against an unjust war in the name of "freedom," "liberation" and "democracy" in a third world country somewhere to the east that never wanted us there, propogated by an ignorant and corrupt federal administration serving a military-industrial corporate agenda and an ideology of greed. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
Hey there! I wish you would do a screening in Lawrence, Kansas at Liberty Hall...(smiles) Just call them! :) http://www.lawrence.com/places/liberty_hall/ Liberty Hall
hey bobby... hope all is well.... watched history channel's 1968 and thought of you immediately..... maybe the history channel would be a good home for berkeley.... cheers mate xx
Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD-25 for the first time in Basel Switzerland while looking for a blood stimulant. LSD research is not continued until 5 yrs later.
Apr 19, 1943 Bicycle Day - Albert Hofmann intentionally takes (250 ug) LSD for the first time. This is the first intentional use of LSD.
Apr 16, 1943 Albert Hofmann accidentally experiences a small amount of LSD for the first time. This is the first human experience with pure LSD-25. He reports seeing "an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopelike play of colors." The experience lasted just over two hours. dude was on a bad trip
1951 CIA becomes aware of and begins experimenting with LSD
1963 LSD first appears on the streets (liquid on sugar cubes).
Summer 1969 Orange sunshine acid first appears
Early 1970s LSD impregnated paper ("blotter") first hit the streets. Very quickly the paper began being printed with colorful art.
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