Not everyone has the motivation (or is brave enough) to quit their job, which they’ve been successful in for over a decade, to make a documentary about some of the international injustices that make them upset. But former investment banker Ami Horowitz did just that with his new film U.N. Me. After watching the Michael Moore Academy Award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine, Horowitz was so inspired to showcase the injustices he has found with the United Nations that he decided to make a film about it.
U.N. Me follows Horowitz, who served as the film’s co-director, co-writer and producer, as he exposes what truly happens behind the closed doors of the titular international organization. Through interviews and Moore-inspired humor, Horowitz and his co-director and writer Matthew Groff aim to show the incompetence and corruption of the U.N. The two also strive to illustrate how the organization, which...
U.N. Me follows Horowitz, who served as the film’s co-director, co-writer and producer, as he exposes what truly happens behind the closed doors of the titular international organization. Through interviews and Moore-inspired humor, Horowitz and his co-director and writer Matthew Groff aim to show the incompetence and corruption of the U.N. The two also strive to illustrate how the organization, which...
- 6/13/2012
- by Karen Benardello
- We Got This Covered
One of the more intriguing documentaries to hit theaters this year is U.N. Me, Ami Horowitz‘s critique of the United Nations for their failures in protecting international human rights. The film follows Horowitz’s journey around the world as he interweaves interviews with politicians, peacekeepers and civilians and archival footage to show Un abuses of power, such as peacekeepers shooting on unarmed civilians and partying with brothel women instead of patrolling the frontlines of a brewing civil conflict. I was fortunate enough to sit down and interview Horowitz to discuss how he became interested in the project, the message he wishes viewers to take from the film and whether or not he believes there’s any hope for the United Nations.
The Film Stage: I read that you were an investment banker before you became a filmmaker. What lead you to take such a dramatic turn and to make a film,...
The Film Stage: I read that you were an investment banker before you became a filmmaker. What lead you to take such a dramatic turn and to make a film,...
- 6/7/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Chicago – “U.N. Me,” a risky and provocative documentary, is taking the United Nations to task for what they have become – an institution more interested in keeping the bureaucratic status quo than going forward with their original charter. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz, along with his co-writer and co-director Matthew Groff, pull no punches in their cinematic investigation.
Ami Horowitz is the on-screen guide through the film’s thesis, and uses humor, creative graphics and satire to enhance his point. His passion is apparent in every frame, up to and including the moment in the film in which he steps up to the U.N. podium – while on a tour – and makes his own impassioned speech. HollywoodChicago.com got to talk to Horowitz about his film, and the conversation matched the enthusiasm displayed in “U.N. Me.”
Ami Horowitz of ‘U.N. Me’
Photo credit: Visio Entertainment
HollywoodChicago.com: What is the main takeaway you...
Ami Horowitz is the on-screen guide through the film’s thesis, and uses humor, creative graphics and satire to enhance his point. His passion is apparent in every frame, up to and including the moment in the film in which he steps up to the U.N. podium – while on a tour – and makes his own impassioned speech. HollywoodChicago.com got to talk to Horowitz about his film, and the conversation matched the enthusiasm displayed in “U.N. Me.”
Ami Horowitz of ‘U.N. Me’
Photo credit: Visio Entertainment
HollywoodChicago.com: What is the main takeaway you...
- 6/3/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – As a product of the post WWII era of global cooperation, the United Nations in New York City has arguably become a bloated and expensive paperweight, 67 years after its birth. Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz takes on this bloat with passion and some conspicuous points in “U.N. Me.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The pun of the title does imply the relationship that Horowitz exposes in the film. What purpose does the bureaucracy that has developed in the United Nations serve in a post-iron curtain, post 9/11 world? According to the filmmaker, not much. Valuable dollars are poured into the organization, and in return – according to the the film – there is duplicity, hypocrisy and disingenuous interactions with countries that the U.N. is supposedly giving either military or humanitarian aid.
Ami Horowitz is the Michael-Moorish guide to the proceedings, as he breaks down situations that has given the United Nations an ever-increasing black eye. There...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The pun of the title does imply the relationship that Horowitz exposes in the film. What purpose does the bureaucracy that has developed in the United Nations serve in a post-iron curtain, post 9/11 world? According to the filmmaker, not much. Valuable dollars are poured into the organization, and in return – according to the the film – there is duplicity, hypocrisy and disingenuous interactions with countries that the U.N. is supposedly giving either military or humanitarian aid.
Ami Horowitz is the Michael-Moorish guide to the proceedings, as he breaks down situations that has given the United Nations an ever-increasing black eye. There...
- 6/2/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The concept of the United Nations has long been a bit of a romantic idea. Born out of the chaos that was World War II, it was established to protect international peace and to promote a united approach to solving social, economic and humanitarian issues on a global scale. However, the organization has not always seen the kind of success we wish it could achieve. Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff’s new film, U.N. Me, aims to take a critical look at the failures of the U.N. and what, if anything, can be changed about the organization for the better.
I was a bit of a skeptic at first, as this looked like it could devolve into an incredibly conservative take on United Nations. Most of the Congress members interviewed in the film are Republican, a political party that has been opposed to the organization for a long while.
I was a bit of a skeptic at first, as this looked like it could devolve into an incredibly conservative take on United Nations. Most of the Congress members interviewed in the film are Republican, a political party that has been opposed to the organization for a long while.
- 6/2/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Title: U.N. Me Director: Matthew Groff, Ami Horowitz Screenwriter: Ami Horowitz, Matthew Groff Cast: Ami Horowitz, David Bosco, Ken Cain, Roberta Cohen, Norm Coleman, Simon Deng Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 5/23/12 Opens: June 1, 2012 When I was in third grade, our teacher talked up the United Nations, which had recently been founded in 1945. In an auditorium program, we all sang “United Nations on the march/ With flags unfurled/ Together fight for victory/ a free new world.” And that was just the refrain to a song that made the Un seem like The Second Coming. Things did not turn out as idealistically as our naïve class was made [ Read More ]...
- 5/24/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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“U.N. Me” is one man’s outrageous journey to expose the corruption of the world’s most revered institution. The film, which opens in theaters and video on demand on June 1, 2012, stars David Bosco, Ken Cain, Roberta Cohen, Norm Coleman, Simon Deng, Charles Duelfer, Frank Gaffney, Stephen Groves, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Peggy Hicks, Michael Hussey, Colin Keating, Mark Kirk, Moise Lida Kouassi and Joe Loconte from writers and directors Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff.
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“U.N. Me” is one man’s outrageous journey to expose the corruption of the world’s most revered institution. The film, which opens in theaters and video on demand on June 1, 2012, stars David Bosco, Ken Cain, Roberta Cohen, Norm Coleman, Simon Deng, Charles Duelfer, Frank Gaffney, Stephen Groves, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Peggy Hicks, Michael Hussey, Colin Keating, Mark Kirk, Moise Lida Kouassi and Joe Loconte from writers and directors Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff.
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- 5/19/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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