Ithaka: Film and Q&A tour

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

San Francisco

Berkeley

  • March 2 | UC Berkeley | 12pm

San Rafael

New Mexico

Santa Fe

Oklahoma

Tulsa

Texas

Houston

Dallas

Austin

North Carolina

Winston-Salem, NC

Raleigh

Georgia

Decatur, GA

Louisiana

New Orleans

  • March 13 | Loyola University

D.C.

Washington D.C.

Maryland

  • March 15 | University of Maryland | 3:30pm

New York

Manhattan

Huntington, NY

Bronxville

Woodstock

Syracuse

Massachusetts

Dennis

Boston

Salem

Canada

Toronto

Maine

Waterville

Indiana

Indianapolis

Missouri

St. Louis

Illinois

Chicago

Wisconsin

Milwaukee

Minnesota

Minneapolis/St. Paul

Colorado

Denver

Washington

Vancouver

Tacoma

Madison


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.