'Citizen Koch' documentary gets distributor, heading to theaters in spring

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/news/local/citizen-koch-documentary-gets-distributor-heading-to-theaters-in-spring/article_3b2ec6ae-28b2-5e9a-b837-a8eada978189.html


“Citizen Koch,” the documentary about the 2011 Wisconsin protests, has secured a distributor and will appear in movie theaters nationwide this spring.

Variance Films announced Friday that it had secured the rights to distribute “Citizen Koch” in theaters. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and had two sold-out shows at the Wisconsin Film Festival, looks at how the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate money to flow into third-party organizations.

In particular, the film looks at the political activity of Charles and David Koch, and how that money backed Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip public sector unions of most of their collective bargaining rights. The film looks at both the changing national political landscape and focuses on three Wisconsin public workers, all Republicans, who eventually join the fight to recall Walker.

“Whether you're a hard-core liberal, a recovering moderate, or a true-blue conservative, you have to admit that something is wrong — and we think 'Citizen Koch' shines a bright light directly on it,” Variance founder and president Dylan Marchetti told the Hollywood Reporter.

[brucefan]

1. Can't wait to see it!

[mokawanis]

2. Glad to hear it!

I'm really looking forward to seeing this one!

[DavidG_WI]

3. Awesome!

Just need to see if we can have a few public showings of it here like we did with ALEC Exposed!

[a kennedy]

4. but will the masses see it.....

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Greater masses probably not

I do not expect this to be on the local AMCs or larger theaters, I can see it at the Uptown in Minneapolis that shows Indie films, and other couple similar theaters in the Twin Cities, it will preach to the choir as those who know it will come will see it, but not reach any others.

[DavidG_WI]

6. If the masses don't come to you, then you should go to them.

Get a projector and a PA speaker, mount them on the back of a pickup and display it on the sides of buildings.