Arthur Kanegis & Melanie Bennett, director & producer respectively of “The World is My Country” along with David Gallup, President and General Counsel of the World Service Authority discuss Ukraine, war, world governance, and much more.
It’s more than Ukraine
Arthur Kenegis is President of Future WAVE, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to shifting our culture of violence to a culture of peace. He is the Director/Producer of “The World Is My Country” about the amazing adventures of World Citizen # 1 Garry Davis. Prior to producing the feature-length documentary, he produced the award-winning short film on the same subject: “One! The Garry Davis Story” and wrote an award-winning screenplay for a narrative feature as well. Before that, Kanegis produced “War Without Winners” narrated by Paul Newman and filmed by Haskell Wexler – a compelling TV documentary on the nuclear war issue.
David Gallup specializes in human rights, world citizenship, and world law education. He is President and General Counsel of the World Service Authority, Washington, DC, a global public service human rights organization founded in 1954. He is also a Board Member of Citizens for Global Solutions, CGS Team Leader of the Peace and Youth Outreach Program, and Convenor of the World Court of Human Rights Coalition.
Melanie Bennett has been instrumental to the production of “The World Is My Country” since its inception — from setting up locations, managing shoots, and supervising crew to all aspects of post-production including doing the offline editing. She created our website for the film and co-produced our People-Powered Planet Podcast. Melanie was an Associate Producer on the short film “One! The Garry Davis Story” and contributed to the screenplay for the feature film about Garry Davis. She has filmed Garry Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Michael Moore and edited several shorts as well as the documentary, “Passport to India”.
Listen to the entire interview. It was very well received during the live broadcast.