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WTO/99 finally comes to Toronto on May 1 @7PM at Eyesore Cinema! Celebrate International Workers Day by watching workers fight back in the streets of Seattle. I will beam in for a Q&A moderated by the legend himself @jessehawken.bsky.social, host of Junk Filter Podcast.
Tickets $10 at the door.

Norm is the real deal. Incredible work. Proud to know this dude.

Hey y'all, I am screening my documentary WTO/99 on LI April 30 at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. Would love to get LI DSA involved. Please DM. I emailed you as well.

WTO/99
THURSDAY, April 23th @ 7pm — at Amherst Cinema!

Editor & Producer ALEX MEGARO (@prophetkotto.bsky.social ) joins us for a post-film discussion

Tickets & Info: amherstcinema.org/films-and-ev...

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Very cool!

Review by Dan Suitor WTO/992025 Watched 12 Apr 2026 Dan Suitor’s review published on Letterboxd: Some movies find their moment. I was 10 in 1999. I was mostly concerned with finding a way to rewatch The Phantom Menace and beat Ocarina of Time. I knew nothing about the WTO protests except that something happened. But when I saw this film, all of the footage was familiar to me. Because I lived in Minneapolis in 2020, two blocks from where George Floyd was murdered. And I still live there now, in the same house, half a mile from where Renee Good was murdered. What was captured with DV camcorders in 1999, I saw with my own eyes, or recorded with my smartphone. They're the same images. The same chaos and violence at the hands of armored police. The same rhetoric about respectability politics from elected officials and the media. The haircuts and backpacks look different. And when a camera catches a cop with their boot on someone's neck, this time the cop listens to the person's pleas and steps off. 20 years later, they've learned they don't have to.

Back in 1999, footage like this was harder to get out. It still mostly had to pass through a hundred sets of hands at a corporate media conglomerate to make it to air. So most of it, especially the bits that didn't fit the decided-upon narrative, didn't get out. Now, all of us in Minneapolis have had the experience of scrolling social media and seeing law enforcement brutalize our friends and neighbors. One of the best bits of filmmaking is when you get a shot/reverse shot of footage taken by a journalist of a phalanx of cops, then the footage the cops took of the journalist. It's still early on the first day of protests. Things haven't gotten violent and chaotic yet. The journalist waves. Through the eyes of the policeman, he looks like prey. Maybe today we'd see him in the distinct, horrifying fisheye of bodycam footage. There's a quaintness to the fumbling brutality of the Seattle PD in 1999. They were just learning how to do all this. Baby's first violent suppression of dissent. I saw this film screened by one of the filmmmakers in a tiny theater run by a bowling alley bar at an event run by a sex shop cum mutual aid and community support depot. I'm probably an easy mark. But to see history echo like this, so consonantly, was eerie. After the film, I killed a Hamm's tallboy and talked about it with two dudes who have been here like I have. We had a grim laugh about how none of the footage was that shocking to us after what our city has been through the past 6 years. What we've been through. It's all the same song, and one worth hearing.

my review of WTO/99.

tl;dr: history repeats itself first by tragedy, then by tragedy, then by would you actually believe it more tragedy, new day same tragedy, but I think there are a lot of reasons to revisit the old tragedies

Thank you for your words @danielsuitor.com
The Smitten Kitten crew is a literal inspiration. So honored to team with them on three packed out WTO/99 screenings this past weekend to raise money for their mutual aid efforts.

Love you Minneapolis. We hope to bring the film back again soon.

WTO/99 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater 3pm & 7pm today!

WTO/99 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater 3pm & 7pm today!

Minneapolis! WTO/99 returns on April 11 & 12, presented by Smitten Kitten! Anne from SK will introduce the film, I will be there for a post-screening Q&A. 50% of ticket sales go to Neighbors Helping Neighbors. 4/11 at MCAD, 6:30pm. 4/12 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater 3pm & 7pm. Ticket links below

Come hang with Anne and I tonight at MCAD and tomorrow at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater for the WTO/99 x Smitten Kitten mutual aid weekend! Ticket links in bio

Go see this film if you can. Three screenings this weekend! I really enjoyed myself and I think it’s pretty prescient. Plus, you can help out your neighbors!

This movie is SO good!

This weekend!!

MSP folks should check out this film. I went to the screening at the Riverview and really enjoyed watching it. Plus, you can be like me and loudly yell “fuck that guy!” To rapturous applause when Howard Schultz appears on screen.

Anne from Smitten Kitten @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social demands your presence at the Minneapolis WTO/99 screenings 4/11 at MCAD and 4/12 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. Ticket links in bio!

MCAD tonight 6:30p
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater tomorrow 3pm & 7pm
Ticket links in bio!

Just wanted to say that this is the best documentary I have ever seen. Slightly biased because I was there. But sadly not featured in the movie. Go see it!

Wow, you are too kind. Thank you.

Documentaries that only use archival footage are easily my favorite kinds and undoubtedly the toughest to make. I can’t recommend going to see WTO/99 enough. The screening at the Riverview back in February blew me away.

GET THERE if you’re in MN, you will not regret it

Anne from Smitten Kitten @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social demands your presence at the Minneapolis WTO/99 screenings 4/11 at MCAD and 4/12 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. Ticket links in bio!

Smitten Kitten presents WTO/99 in Minneapolis April 11 & 12.
3 screenings at MCAD and Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. 50% of ticket sales go to rent relief for families affected by ICE. Ticket links in bio.

Catch this tomorrow at MCAD at 6:30 and embrace the opportunity to boo the political villains of yesteryear. Then, heckle them again two more times on Sunday!

Do you live in Minneapolis? You should go see WTO/99 because it's really good and important. Did you see WTO/99 already? You should go see it again because it's really good and important.

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If you’re in the Twin Cities I strongly recommend seeing this. Really well done documentary, and the tickets are raising money for a good group too. Had the opportunity to catch the screening at the Riverview and might just have to go for round 2.

Smitten Kitten presents WTO/99 in Minneapolis April 11 & 12.
3 screenings at MCAD and Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. 50% of ticket sales go to rent relief for families affected by ICE. Ticket links in bio.