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Title: ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST

Reference number: 13940

Date: 2017

Director: d. John Archer, Clara Glynn

Sponsor: Creative Scotland

Production company: Hopscotch Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 84.00 mins

Description: Carne Ross speaks a great truth about today’s world: people are
disconnected from government and at the mercy of global corporations. Politicians argue about each other rather than offering up solutions to the world’s challenges – refugees, climate change, consumerism, declining employment. There has to be a better way. A journey from the heart of government and diplomacy to Carne’s exploration of an anarchist state in Rojava, Syria. [Synopsis taken from Creative Scotland website, https://www.creativescotland.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/41162/Film-FROM-Scotland-2017.pdf, last accessed 02/12/21]

Catalogued from secondary sources including Hopscotch Films, BBC Programme Index, Internet Movie Database websites.

See Youtube for a Tedtalk, 'Accidental Anarchist' from Carne Ross, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hc2_jY4KhY [last accessed 02/12/21]

Credits: Creative Scotland
Hopscotch Films present
A Hopscotch Film Production

d. John Archer, Clara Glynn
p. John Archer, Clara Glynn

[Directed by
John Archer
Clara Glynn Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Carne Ross ... (writer)Cast (in credits order)
Carne Ross Carne Ross ... Self
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hussein Azam Hussein Azam ... Self - Rojava regional assembly representative
Pelai Pagès i Blanch Pelai Pagès i Blanch ... Self - historian, Universitat de Barcelona
Murray Bookchin Murray Bookchin ... Self (archive footage)
Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky ... Self
Nazira Gourie Nazira Gourie ... Self - Rojava regional assembly representative
Elizabeth Pozo Guerrero Elizabeth Pozo Guerrero ... Self - Universidad de Sevilla
Tim Niel Tim Niel ... George Orwell reading (voice)
Amina Ossi Amina Ossi ... Self - deputy for foreign relations in al-Jazira canton
Michael Premo Michael Premo ... Self - Occupy Wall Street activist
Tammy Shapiro Tammy Shapiro ... Self - Occupy Wall Street organizer
Rory Stewart Rory Stewart ... Self - British MP
Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo ... Self - Spanish politician
Viyan Viyan ... Self - Women's Protection Units fighter
Produced by
John Archer ... executive producer / producer
Nick Fraser ... executive producer
Alex Gibney ... executive producer
Clara Glynn ... producer
Ross McKenzie ... executive producerMusic by
Paul Leonard-Morgan Film Editing by
Berny McGurk ... (as Bernie McGurk)Production Management
Karen O'Hare ... production managerSound Department
Kahl Henderson ... re-recording mixer
Leslie Liu ... sound editor
John Osborne ... sound recordistMusic Department
Caroline McGonigle ... assistant to composer (as Caroline Gorman)
Dianne Stevenson ... assistant to composer
]