Nino Leitner's Every Step You Take - Ready for your close-up?: " First regular screenings in Austria!

We are glad to announce the first regular public screenings of "Every Step You Take" in Austrian cinemas!

After its successful world premiere at Diagonale 07 film festival in March, "Every Step You Take" will be screened at select Austrian cinemas and locations starting in June.

The first cinema to screen the documentary is the "Schikaneder" cinema in Vienna. (Screenings at the "Leokino" cinema in Innsbruck have been delayed until fall this year.) Screening dates and times will be announced here as soon as they become available. Other locations will be announced as soon as they are confirmed.

Furthermore, there will be a special screening in Innsbruck: On June 1 in the ORF Kulturhaus Tyrol, Nino Leitner's award-winning short "Auszeit" (it was awarded with the Best Tyrolean Short Film prize by the public television's Short on Screen short film competition) will be screened as part of the "Night of Tyrolean Short Film". As a bonus at the very end, there will be a free screening of "Every Step You Take"!"

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With an estimated four million surveillance cameras, Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. Every Londoner is on camera about 300 times a day. How could this come about in George Orwell's mother country? What were the ignition sparks for this development? Why haven't other nations copied the schemes if they really are as successful as the Home Office and the police are saying? Is there a real effect in crime reduction or has CCTV only been introduced for the people's 'peace of mind'? Are there any vested interests in the proliferation of CCTV?

Trying to answer questions like these, Nino Leitner's one-hour documentary "EVERY STEP YOU TAKE" digs deep into an entirely British phenomenon: nation-wide video surveillance. It features formal interviews with the surveillance researcher Professor Clive Norris, Deputy Chief Constable Andy Trotter from the British Transport Police, a representative of Britain's largest civil rights group Liberty, a CCTV manager from a public local CCTV scheme, experts in the field of transport policing and many more. The surveillance reality in Britain is compared with another member of the E.U., Austria. Compared to the UK, it can be seen as a developing country in terms of CCTV, but just as elsewhere all over the world, politicians are eager to extend the surveillance gaze.

Investigative research in both countries uncovers secrets that should make every responsible European worry ...

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