{"id":1307,"date":"2012-12-05T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=1307"},"modified":"2014-06-05T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T06:25:43","slug":"the-singing-revolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-singing-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Singing Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"eventPage\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/singing-revolution.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/singing-revolution-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Still from The Singing Revolution\" title=\"The Singing Revolution\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/singing-revolution-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/singing-revolution.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><!--<h2><\/h2>--><p class=\"archiveTitle\">Friday, 01 February 2013: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-singing-revolution\/\" target=\"_self\">The Singing Revolution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"timeDate\">Friday, 01 February 2013, 20:00<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"venue\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Forest Row Village Hall (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/location-and-tickets\/\">Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"strand\"><strong>Programme category<\/strong>: Transition Forest Row<\/p>\r\n\r<\/p>\n<p>Director: James Tusty and Maureen Tusty, USA\/Estonia 2006, 94 mins<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Can singing change history? The Singing Revolution, a documentary by James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty about Estonia&#8217;s struggle to end Soviet occupation, shows that it already has.&#8221; New York Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. <em>The Singing Revolution<\/em> is an inspiring account of one nation\u2019s dramatic rebirth and a striking example of humankind\u2019s irrepressible drive for freedom and self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>It was the &#8220;Most Inspirational Film&#8221; at the Boulder International Film Festival in Colorado.<\/p>\n<h4>Further Reading<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.singingrevolution.com\/cgi-local\/content.cgi\">Official film site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slantmagazine.com\/film\/review\/the-singing-revolution\/3304\">Slant magazine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117935688?refcatid=31\">Variety<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Trailer<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fp0h9Z97w1s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: James Tusty and Maureen Tusty, USA\/Estonia 2006, 94 mins &#8220;Can singing change history? The Singing Revolution, a documentary by James Tusty and Maureen Castle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1308,"parent":703,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1307\/revisions\/2387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}