Ian Inaba (born 1971) is an American

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

and

music video director A music video director is the head, overseer or facilitator of music video production. The director conceives of videos' artistic and dramatic aspects while instructing the musical act, technical crew, actors, models, and dancers. They may or ...

, producer, and

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for the Guerrilla News Network.

Music videos

Inaba directed the music videos for " Mosh" by

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and "Time and Time Again" by Chronic Future. He also directed the original music video for the

Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988. Its members are the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Trent Reznor and his frequent col ...

song " The Hand that Feeds." It was never released, however, because the band found the subject matter, which depicted Religious Right

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, including threats to abortion clinic patients and abuses by religious authorities, too controversial for their tastes. The job then went to

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Books and documentaries

Inaba contributed to GNN's book about black box voting, ''

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''. He has recently completed a feature-length

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about voting irregularities in the

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and 2004 U.S. elections entitled ''

American Blackout ''American Blackout'' (2006) is a documentary film directed by Ian Inaba. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the 2002 defeat, and 2004 reelection, of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to the U.S. House of Represe ...

''. The film, released August 2006, received a Special Jury Prize at the 2006

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. He was also one of the creators of Video the Vote in 2006.

References

External links

Ian Inaba's GNN ProfileGuerrilla News Network
American male journalists American music video directors 1971 births Living people 21st-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1970s-stub