Vera is the coolest and it’s insane that her brilliant film was once only available to watch via secret screenings at brave film festivals and now is out there for free on Tubi!

WTO/99 screens TONIGHT Jan. 21 in: Tampa, FL - Sun ray Cinema Eugene, OR - Art House

WTO/99 at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn. Night 3 SOLD OUT

There’s a documentary screening at The Art House in Eugene on Jan 16, 17, 21 & 22 called WTO/99 about the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. Many don’t remember or know about this protest. It’s important that we do. After all, they are STILL using the same tactics. www.eugenearthouse.com/movie/wto99/

In the 90s if you wrote a thesis on how Mayor Paul Schell mismanaged every component of the WTO riot response you'd just get a pissy letter from Paul Schell and a high five from your English teacher (Mr. Echtle, you were rad) Now you get earmarked for ICE detention

We have since added San Francisco Jan 28 @ Roxie Cinema and an additional Eugene, OR screening on Jan 22nd

There's a new doc called WTO/99 that really opened my eyes to how much of this started in Seattle. It was so horrifying at the time, business as usual from the cops now

Tony Dokouthepolls

My 9th grade English teacher called it after the 1980 election. She was anything but alone. This has been a long time coming and don’t delude yourself that Trump is the reason.

I don’t think I ever posted my fave movies of 2025 here so let’s hop to it! My top 10 are: Fucktoys The Testament of Ann Lee Resurrection WTO/99 Universal Language Happyend If I Had Legs I’d Kick You The Ice Tower Reflection in a Dead Diamond It Was Just an Accident

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

PS even if you don’t have any $ to donate right now, sharing this list far and wide would help greatly! ⬇️

This dude rules

January screenings for WTO/99 so you can witness the beginnings of the over-militarized shitheads currently occupying our streets.

The multiple angles thing is what was really striking about WTO/99, a doc about the 1999 WTO protests, which happened right when we really started to be able to have a lot of citizen footage shot right on the ground. Recommend everyone watch it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/m...

TONIGHT

gonna go put a few of these up. printable size here: drive.google.com/file/d/1qO2u...

Before WTO/99, we made our first foray into a fully archival, chronological re-creation with 187 Minutes: The January 6th Insurrection, which shows what happened on the ground, in Congress, and in the media during the event. youtu.be/hyIR1vxIcGk?...

Saw The Turin Horse at NYFF with Bela Tarr Q&A. Audience member asks "Why is this your final film?." Tarr stares at her for a bit, turns around to look at the movie screen, then turns back to her and shouts "What the fuck is there left to say!?" RIP to one of the greatest.

Before WTO/99, we made our first foray into a fully archival, chronological re-creation with 187 Minutes: The January 6th Insurrection, which shows what happened on the ground, in Congress, and in the media during the event. youtu.be/hyIR1vxIcGk?...

Saw The Turin Horse at NYFF with Bela Tarr Q&A. Audience member asks "Why is this your final film?." Tarr stares at her for a bit, turns around to look at the movie screen, then turns back to her and shouts "What the fuck is there left to say!?" RIP to one of the greatest.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

More of a reminiscence with occasional review elements. Thanks again to @prophetkotto.bsky.social for bringing it to Atlanta!

New York! I'm going to be moderating a Q&A with producer Alex Megaro about his film WTO/99 after a screening at the city's best microcinema @spectacletheater.com on Friday, January 9! Come thru!

December ‘25 first watches: WTO/99 Marty Supreme Familiar Touch Cash on Demand The Testament of Ann Lee Cloud

Talking to @prophetkotto.bsky.social about WTO/99 was such a highlight of this year (as was every time I got to tell people to watch WTO/99):

One of the best to ever do it

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

WTO/99 won the 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Best Documentary Film award! Check out our coverage of the documentary @mudede.bsky.social says we all need to see right away.

WTO/99 wins 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Best Documentary Film award. For Prism I connect WTO/99 to a legacy of repression and surveillance ongoing today: prismreports.org/2025/12/11/w...

If you want to watch archival footage of my friends getting beat up by cops, do I have a movie for you…

We love to see it

I get that we’re going to be accused with going with the “homer” pick, however, WTO/99 is one of the best - and most essential - films of the year. This is a worthy selection. Check it out when you can.

One of the most well-made, essential documentaries of not just the year or the decade, but the 21st century 📽️

Holy shit! Thank you @seattlecritics.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best DOCUMENTARY FILM: 📽️ WTO/99 - Ian Bell

Cannot believe we won the Best Editing piece of the @IDA Aggro Crag for WTO/99, shared with my co-editor Ian Bell. Just a surreal experience surrounded by the kindest and most talented filmmakers, especially the amazing editors in our category. Very cool experience. Would recommend!

“WTO/99” Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: “These Issues Haven’t Gone Away”

Cannot believe we won the Best Editing piece of the @IDA Aggro Crag for WTO/99, shared with my co-editor Ian Bell. Just a surreal experience surrounded by the kindest and most talented filmmakers, especially the amazing editors in our category. Very cool experience. Would recommend!

Congratulations, @prophetkotto.bsky.social!!! WTO/99 continues at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social through Dec 14.

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The End of America (tour) is upon us. The WTO/99 + Hello Dankness double bulldozer continues unabated. Check out one of these December dates and look for much more in 202666. Dec. 5 - St. Louis @arkadincinema.bsky.social Dec. 13 - Seattle @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Dec. 14 - Oklahoma City @ OFX

WTO/99 screens TONIGHT in Portland at @cstpdx.bsky.social. 7pm. Director Ian Bell in person for Q&A. It’s the anniversary of N30, you don’t want to miss it.

Had a lot of fun here getting to break down one of my favorites of our parodies here on @zeteo.com with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

WTO/99 screens TONIGHT in Portland at @cstpdx.bsky.social. 7pm. Director Ian Bell in person for Q&A. It’s the anniversary of N30, you don’t want to miss it.

Hope to see some of you there! Congratulations to @prophetkotto.bsky.social, who recently received a best editing nomination from the IDA (International Documentary Association). Once you see WTO/99, if you haven't already, you'll see why. (Props to my pal, Adam Sekuler, too, for Suburban Fury.)

Not sure how to convey how stunned Ian Bell and I are for being nominated by the IDA for their Best Editing award. I do not recommend trying to whittle down roughly 1,000 hours of archival footage into something coherent, but obliterating our brains was totally worth it in this specific case.

Not sure how to convey how stunned Ian Bell and I are for being nominated by the IDA for their Best Editing award. I do not recommend trying to whittle down roughly 1,000 hours of archival footage into something coherent, but obliterating our brains was totally worth it in this specific case.

WTO/99 Theatrical Trailer In Theaters beginning December 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpV0...

If you missed this excellent doc when it screened at @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social come to Red Emma's and watch it on Black Friday; panel afterward with me @jessdouglas.bsky.social and WTO/99's editor @prophetkotto.bsky.social