I’m no good at raising money for The BRAD BLOG – so let’s see if I have any better luck helping out progressive filmmaker John Wellington Ennis to complete his newest documentary, Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes, covering the Supreme Court’s Citizens United disaster and other related bastardizations of our democracy by the highest corporate bidder.
As his website describes the new film: “The cost of running for office makes candidates beg, borrow, and steal. PAY 2 PLAY shows how our elections encourage extortion, and how to stop it.”
John is also the director of 2008’s high-lariously informative Free For All: One Dude’s Quest to Save Democracy (which features yours truly, but is brilliant nonetheless!)
Unfortunately, progressives are not shoveled barrels of free money as partisan scammers Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe, and the other liars and snake-oil salesmen on the Right are. Progressives actually have to beg for funds and then produce actual, truthful material in the bargain! That takes time, effort, and funding. So it’s gonna take money to get money out of our politics once and for all! Please help. Ennis is doing his part, big time, so please help him out to finish the film if you can afford to toss in a few dollars!
If you need any more convincing, here’s a slightly shortened version of an appearance I made at one of his fundraisers in Santa Monica last week [apologies for the echoey sound, it gets easier to see and hear as it goes forward!]…
Hopefully this isn’t representative of his skills as a filmmaker. Somebody needs to understand in doing shots like these some basics of shooting, such as white balancing prior to shooting, lighting, sound. Jeesh, the list could go on and on… lol.