“Save It” Global Warming message by 10 yr old
Omniquest Media is excited to finish the teaser to a thought provoking Global Warming PSA we are producing in the fall.
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Omniquest is a fully integrated environmentally and humanitarian conscious media company embarking on producing media of all types dedicated to educate and spark people to action. Look here for future news about the growth and development of this exciting new company.
McLibel
Omniquest is teaming up with Tim Matheson (Animal House, Van Wilder) to produce
Based on The McLibel Trial, the infamous British court case between McDonald’s and a former postman & a gardener from London (Dave Morris and Helen Steel). McLibel is a story about Conrad Macy, an entry-level lawyer new to the McDonald’s corporate team. It is his job to make legal trouble for anyone that headquarters sees fit, including two apparent English rabble-rousers. What he anticipates to be an inconsequential, McLibel.
open-and-shut, matter turns into the longest court case in British legal history and profoundly alters Macy views on McDonald’s and himself.
Morris and Steel were volunteers with Greenpeace who, along with 3 others, began distributing leaflets accusing the multinational fast food giant of social, nutritional, and environmental wrongs. McDonald’s threatened a libel suit if the group did not apologize, cease and desist. Steel and Morris held their ground and thus, the case was tried. McDonald’s hired the best, high profile lawyer that they could find, flew in expert witnesses, even deployed spies to infiltrate Greenpeace’s ranks. Morris and Steel defended themselves, garnering social sympathy along the way. The case dragged on for 2.5 years before the judge delivered his ruling. The verdict was devastating for McDonald’s. The judge found that they do ‘exploit children’ with their advertising, produce ‘misleading’ advertising, are ‘culpably responsible’ for cruelty to animals, are ‘antipathetic’ to unionization and pay their workers low wages. However, Steel and Morris failed to prove all of their points and should pay £60,000 in damages. They refused and McDonald’s knew better than to pursue it.
Cannes and after
Michael just came back from a trip to Cannes to promote the new business. After finishing up with Cannes, Michael traveled to Geneva & London to meet with various people from Interpol and other organizations about our Child Slavery project.
First Trip to Thailand
Michael Kaliski sets out to Thailand to produce and direct The Untitled Child Slavery Project, a documentary about rescuing child sex slaves in southeast Asia.
At first, the documentary was going to be about one renegade man who slipped into brothels, risking his life, and pretended to be a sex tourist asking for their youngest child. When he was put into a room with the child, he would take her and run out, saving the child from slavery.
However, when Michael and the others got there and started interviewing other people involved in abolishing slavery in Southeast Asia, they discovered an entire seedy world of evil beyond one man. This project will take on child slavery of all kinds all over Southeast Asia. Stay posted for more information.
Michael Kaliski hosts Total Denial
Michael Kaliski joins hosting committee and hosts Total Denial in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Total Denial is the winner of the 2006 Vaclav Havel Award for Human Rights. This riveting story of courage and sacrifice chronicles the personal and political journeys of ERI’s groundbreaking lawsuit against Unocal for human rights abuses in Burma.
Michael hosts alongside Lawrence Bender, Stephen Nemeth, Ed & Cindy Asner, Marianne Manilov, Lora O’Connor, Christine Aylward, Andrew Beath, Charlie Clements, Jodie Evans, Julia Butterfly Hill, Kerry Kennedy, Hala Khouri, Rudy Langlais, D.J. Paul, Belvie Rooks, Kate Tillery and Bradley Whitford
Not For Sale… The Documentary
Omniquest will represent Not For Sale, a documentary about human trafficking. Not For Sale deals with worldwide human trafficking and spotlights the various organizations around the world fighting to rid the world of this crime.
Omniquest will be marketing the movie for distribution. However, you are encouraged to spread the word of this amazing documentary and the organization behind it.
Here’s the trailer:
Naomi Mastera joins Board
Naomi Mastera joins the Board of Directors. We welcome her and look forward to changing the world with Naomi.
Skid Row
Omniquest will be marketing Skid Row, a documentary about homelessness in LA with Pras Michel. In this feature documentary SKID ROW, Pras Michel - onethird of the successful hip-hop band The Fugees - lives on the streets of Skid Row for 9 straight days and nights as a homeless person. The entire time he and his crew are undercover, using surveillance cameras.
Even dogs don’t get treated like this.
The Untitled Child Slavery Project
Omniquest will produce The Untitled Child Slavery Project, a documentary about rescuing underage girls from brothels in Thailand. Formerly called “Rescue Thailand”, The Untitled Child Slavery Project will follow a former military soldier into brothels. This man poses as a “sex tourist”, asking for the youngest girl each brothel has. When he is alone in a room with her, he nabs her and runs out of the brothel, risking his life to save her from slavery.
