FREE FOR ALL!, his 2008 documentary about election fraud, was called "engrossing, even enraging" by Roger Ebert.
Gordon was a lauded film-maker, but we barely knew each other when I suggested to Pendleton that she should commit herself to a documentary which, for all the laughter, has been painful and revealing.
Last year at this time, I was racing against the clock to release my first feature documentary, FREE FOR ALL!
It is such a tired tactic of self-imposed importance, I parodied it in my documentary FREE FOR ALL! when I crashed Diebold headquarters asking questions.
As I show in my documentary FREE FOR ALL!, Bob Ney was simultaneously taking bribes and getting drunk in the morning, while authoring the devastating Help America Vote Act, which foisted electronic voting upon us as a nation and led to widespread voter disenfranchisement through provisional ballots, over one million of which were promptly discarded in the 2004 election.
"For all those who think his documentaries put the likes of Louis Theroux to shame," I quote, "others basically think he's a tool".
John Wellington Ennis is a co-founder of Video The Vote and made the election documentaries FREE FOR ALL: One Dude's Quest to Save Our Elections and PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes, available at SaveOurElections.org.org
For all its documentary ardor, Wiseman's ideal often takes precedence over the real, and the one thing that never comes through is the reason why the devil gets the good lines.
For all the Hollywood films on gangs, for all the documentaries, for The Wire and the prison memoirs that listeners might have become inured to, the brutal reality for these teenagers, living in the world's most developed nation, is still shocking.
Driving a custom-painted Econoline van to Austin, Texas, stuffed with sound equipment, in order to host pop-up live shows throughout the week of SXSW Music Festival -- all filmed for a documentary... doesn't sound like your typical Washington, D.C. leisure activity, right?
