Award-winning documentary on the global campaign to defend the right to publish and free Julian Assange is coming soon to a theater near you, followed by Q&A panel events with Julian’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton
Canada | California | Colorado | D.C. | Illinois | Louisiana | Maryland| Maine | Massachusetts| Minnesota | Missouri | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Oklahoma |Texas | Washington | Wisconsin
See photos and press coverage of the film and tour so far!
California
Los Angeles
February 28 | USC SOLD OUTMarch 1 | Laemmle Theatre NoHo | 7pm- Hosted by ACLU of Southern California
March 4 | Alamo Drafthouse | 6:30pmMarch 5 | Laemmle Theatre The Royal | 10am
San Francisco
March 2 | Roxie Theater | 6:30pm- Joined by Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein
Berkeley
March 2 | UC Berkeley | 12pm- Joined by Berkeley Journalism School’s Garrett Therolf
San Rafael
March 3 | Smith Rafael Film Center | 7pm- Joined by EFF’s David Greene
New Mexico
Santa Fe
March 5 | Jean Cocteau Cinema | 6pm
Oklahoma
Tulsa
March 6 | Circle Cinema | 7pm- Joined by local journalist Michael Mason
Texas
Houston
March 7 | Rice University | 7pm
Dallas
March 8 | Alamo Drafthouse | 7:25pm
Austin
- March 31 | Alamo Austin Mueller | 7pm
North Carolina
Winston-Salem, NC
March 9 | Aperture Cinema
Raleigh
March 12 | Alamo Drafthouse | 4pm
Georgia
Decatur, GA
March 10 | Georgia for the Book | 7pm
Louisiana
New Orleans
March 13 | Loyola University
D.C.
Washington D.C.
March 14 | Georgetown University | 7pmMarch 15 | Alamo Drafthouse DC Bryant Street | 7pm
Maryland
March 15 | University of Maryland | 3:30pm
New York
Manhattan
March 17 | New Plaza Cinema | 7:45pmMarch 20 | Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan | 7:30pm
Huntington, NY
March 18 | Cinema Arts Centre | 7pm
Bronxville
March 19 | Pelham Picture House | 5pm
Woodstock
March 26 | Tinker Street Cinema | 7pm
Syracuse
March 28 | University of Syracuse | 6pm
Massachusetts
Dennis
March 21 | Cape Cinema | 7pm
Boston
March 22 | Somerville Theatre | 7:30pm
Salem
- March 23 | Salem Film Festival | 7:30pm
Canada
Toronto
- March 24 | Hot Docs | 6pm
Maine
Waterville
- March 25 | Maine Film Center | 7pm
Indiana
Indianapolis
- April 1 | Kan-Kan Cinema | 7:30pm
Missouri
St. Louis
- April 4 | Alamo Drafthouse | 7:30pm
Illinois
Chicago
- April 6 | Columbia College Chicago Film Row Cinema | 12:30pm
- April 6 | Alamo Drafthouse Wrigleyville | 7:30pm
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
- April 8 | Oriental Theatre | 6pm
Minnesota
Minneapolis/St. Paul
- April 11 | Alamo Drafthouse Woodbury | 6:15pm
Colorado
Denver
- April 12 | Alamo Drafthouse | 7pm
Washington
Vancouver
- April 15 | Kiggins Theatre| 2:00pm
Tacoma
- April 16 | The Grand Cinema | 2:15pm
Madison
- April 10 | Barrymore Theater | 7pm
Photos & Videos
Opening Night | USC
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Press Coverage
The Hill | “Julian Assange Brother Says Prison Life Is Wearing On Journalist, Previews New Documentary
Progressive Magazine | ‘Film Review: ”Ithaka” Makes a Personal Appeal to Free Assange’
There have been other films made about the WikiLeaker, including features such as 2012’s Underground: The Julian Assange Story and Bill Condon’s 2013 biopic The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and documentaries like Laura Poitras’s 2016 Risk and 2017’s Hacking Justice. But the 106-minute Ithaka is arguably the most deeply personal production made about a man who, the documentary reminds us, is also a father, husband, son, and brother. Assange, who is now fifty-one and reportedly in mental and physical distress, deserves to be reunited with his family. The war criminals should be behind bars, not those who reveal their crimes against humanity.
Project Censored | ‘Guilty of Journalism: New Documentary Film Ithaka and New Book on the Political Case Against Julian Assange’
The Dissenter | ‘The Difficulty of Destiny: ‘Ithaka’ And A Father’s Struggle For His Son’s Freedom’
Stella makes a key point about a half hour into the film. “Extraditions are 99 percent politics and one percent law. It’s entirely the political climate around the case that decides the outcome, and that is shaped by the media.”
Taking “Ithaka” from city to city in the U.S.—and around the world—amounts to a valiant attempt by John and Gabriel to counter the narrative that has been shaped by Western news media and enabled the legal limbo that has unjustly enmeshed Julian Assange.
Los Angeles Times | ‘Review: The documentary ‘Ithaka’ attempts a difficult defense of Julian Assange’
“Ithaka” focuses on the fight to unshackle Assange from his legal peril through the rallying efforts of his septuagenarian father, John Shipton, and then-fiancée Stella Moris, with whom Assange has two children. (Assange and Moris married last year.) As they bide their time in the U.K. awaiting the London trial that will decide on his extradition status, they travel as needed to get politicians and organizations from other countries on their side while taking part in media coverage that brings its own struggles in separating the personal from the political and rumor from fact.