Dedicated to promoting Free Speech and The Spoken Word since 1983, American INSIGHT introduces its new Free Speech Film Festival and Free Speech Blog. We hope to connect new voices and provide a creative outlet for filmmakers and the general public to discuss where Free Speech came from, and what it means today.
With recent uprisings by protesters around the globe, the urge for freedom continues to shape today's world. Films submitted to the Free Speech Film Festival inform us with messages of anguish and hope, personal and political revelations, and the ancient human desire for transcendence.
American INSIGHT's mission is to produce, promote and distribute historical documentaries, and to broaden exposure to historical information through the use of emerging technologies. Its Festival is a low-cost, grassroots, sustainable program that unites celebrity judges, students, scholars, poets, recording artists, scientists, writers, educators, lawmakers, and the general public in conversations about the history and future of Free Speech.
Award winning films are distributed free of charge to high schools around the world. The Festival's Awards Ceremony will take place on May 16, 2012 at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, PA: the city where Free Speech was born.
