Michael Moore fest ignores plea to pull born-again Christian film

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://devinekrap.blogspot.com/2006/08/michael-moore-fest-ignores-plea-to.html

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ignoring a request to remove the documentary "Jesus Camp" from its lineup, Michael Moore's Traverse City (Mich.) Film Festival plans two screenings of the film, one Friday and one Saturday.

The documentary, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, looks at a summer camp for born-again Christian children, and has won top jury awards at this year's Tribeca Film Festival and AFI SilverDocs Film Festival.

After Magnolia Films acquired North American distribution rights last week, the company asked festival organizers to drop the film because it was concerned that any association with the polarizing director of "Fahrenheit 9/11" could damage its prospects in conservative circles.

[ClassWarrior]

1. If "conservative circles" are that childish, then they don't deserve...

...to see the film.

NGU.

[AlamoDemoc]

2. I heard Michael More say;

They know I am exposing them. They finance my movies, because they know there are many of us out there who want to hear the truth. That is why they want to make money (the studios), at the same time the audiences listening.

I paraphrased it, but I think that is what I thought he said.

[Iris]

3. Why do they care? Didn't they just have that conservative film festival

there last summer? If the conservatives loved that so much, why don't they just have that again?

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Film is culture. Conservatives don't like culture.

It makes them reach for their revolvers.

Of course, everything makes them reach for their revolvers.

--p!

[Vidar]

5. About 20 people showed up vs 50,000 + for the Moore festival.

[Iris]

6. yep. That's what I figured.

That film festival (the conservative ones) was started by 2 people who went to the movies and didn't want to see Frida or the Michael Moore movie. So, ok, I get teh MIchael Moore part, but they actually said "Frida? Who wants to see THAT!"