Freedom Film Festival brings you Pirate Radio!

Actually, this film night will be shared with the Pine Tree Radio Society’s monthly 3-3-3 equipment test night, so come and experience both! It’s going to be a fun evening!

Pine Tree Radio Society test day event (same day): https://freestate.app/events/weare/workshops/3-3-3-radio-test-day-pine-tree-radio-society/

Pirate Radio USA is a feature length documentary about the underground world of unlicensed radio in the USA, where people play what they want and say what they want-unless the FCC catches them. On the way see the rise of Big Media, the growth of Indy Media to encounter it, and witness their showdown over the truth during the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle. DJ’s Him and Her, from their live Pirate Radio USA Studio, take you on a rock -n-roll journey inside rogue radio stations across the country to see why Americans defy Federal Law to free the radio airwaves. Seize the Airwaves!

The film showcases illegal radio, or pirate radio in America. DJs Him and Her (Pearson and Jones respectively) travel throughout the country meeting and interviewing radio pirates, taking action against the FCC and the World Trade Organization’s 1999 Seattle conference.

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Director’s Statement:

When my partner and co-producer and I began our journey into pirate radio in 1996, we never imagined it would end, nearly a decade later, in the documentary feature, Pirate Radio USA. This is my first feature, and as a first hand narrative, a big part of my life for the past 7 years it took to create.

“We just wanted to be on the radio,” DJ Her (aka Mary Jones, producer) always reminds me. And radio is what we did–on an empty space on the dial, we broadcast–or really microcast, with a tiny 78-watt transmitter–thinking, at the time, our Seattle neighborhood would be our only audience.

We figured we had as much a right to the public airwaves as anyone. It was only