How to Start a Revolution

How to Start a Revolution is a BAFTA award winning British documentary film about Nobel Peace Prize nominee and political theorist Gene Sharp, described as the worlds foremost scholar on nonviolent revolution. The film describes Sharps ideas, and their influence on popular uprisings around the world. Screened in cinemas and television in more thancountries it became an underground hit with the Occupy Wall St Movement.

A primary character of the film is Gene Sharp, founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, and a 2009 and 2012 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Sharp has been a scholar on nonviolent action for more than 50 years, and has been called both the Machiavelli of nonviolence and the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare. Other main characters include Jamila Raqib, a former Afghan refugee and the Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution Colonel Robert Bob Helvey Sra Popovi, leader of Otpor students group Serbia Ahmed Maher, leader of Aprildemocracy group Egypt and Ausama Monajed, Syrian activist.Scottish journalist Ruaridh Arrow, who wrote, directed, and coproduced the film, explained that he first learned about Gene Sharps work as a student, and then heard that Sharps booklets were turning up on the sites of many revolutions. But Sharp himself remained largely unknown. In explaining his motivation to make the film, Arrow stated that ........

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