How To Start Your Own Country
Jody Shapiro Canada 2010 72 min.
DOCVILLE 2011
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Always dreamt of becoming a head of state? Easy, just start your own country! The director of this film looked up six people who did just that. They rule six unrecognized sovereign micro-nations. There’s the Republic of Molossia in Nevada, a country with six inhabitants. For laughs, they have their clocks run 39 minutes behind every other clock in the state. North Dumpling Island near New York is owned by Dean Kamen, the men who invented the Segway and who found the island’s constitution in his wine cellar. An original film that looks at what exactly makes a country a country.
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Director
Jody Shapiro
Cinematography
John Gurdebeke
Editing
Robert Schwarz
Music
Howie Beck
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