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Mon, Nov 08, 12:59 AM
jonraymond
When I first saw Alexia's trailer on YouTube I thought, now this is a great project. She made a doc (Adventures in Plymptoons) on the Oscar nominated animator, Bill Plympton, who already has been making films for like ever and has quite a following, cult though it may be. The thing about Alexia and Bill Plympton is that they are all about fun and nothing is sacred. Anyway, I donated to her IndieGogo campaign and then I found her at Comic Con and did a quick interview, which she promoted herself with. She recently did another Kickstarter campaign for $10,000 which she actually pulled off int the last days of the campaign. One of the things she did was to promise to "go hawk" if she made her goal. So last Friday, while in town for the AFM, she went hawk and I filmed it. Check it out.
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Tue, Sep 14, 4:24 AM
jonraymond
Protesters on various sides of the recent health care insurance reform issues give their views, actively debated in Los Angeles in the summer of 2009 at street rallies, protests, and town hall meetings. The film uses a stream of conversation style that links interviews in an ongoing dialog to explain aspects of the issues involved, from the question of socialism, to reports of people dying for lack of health insurance, to arrests of protesters at sit-ins. The film was shot with a consumer HD camcorder with no producer, crew, or script. Highlights include interviews with doctors and nurses at various rallies such as the Hollywood “Mad as Hell Doctors” rally, where Dr. Jo Olson, Dr. Paul Papanek and Dr. Susie Baldwin explain how the proposed public option plan will likely fail and amounts to little more than an insurance industry “jobs program” to protect the insurance industry from it’s demise as a single payer system would do. Maureen Cruise, RN, very eloquently effectively narrates a sit-in protest at the Anthem Blue Cross offices in Los Angeles, and explains in detail how the public option plans are written by lobbyists and will have little positive effect in her view, how the U.S suffers from health care debt and how we compare to other countries that see health care as a human right. The question of socialism is explored with Tamara Colbert of the right wing activist group, The Pasadena Patriots, as she points out her take on socialism, while reformers seemingly (through editing) respond with their views that socialism already exists for other public services in the U.S. Throughout the film, President Obama explains his points as each issue is explored. Michael Moore describes how the foreclosure crisis is a result mostly of health care debt, and how our democracy is in jeopardy with so few controlling so much of the wealth in America. A cast of over sixty people including the eloquent actor and activist Lucia Brawley and musician activist Sam Pullen (arrested at the Los Angeles sit-in), make for an interesting street survey of the ongoing health care debate.
Tue, Sep 14, 4:20 AM
jonraymond
Our KickerStarter distribution campaign
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Jon Raymond is raising funds for Got Healthcare? - Documentary Film Distribution on Kickstarter! Got Healthcare? the political documentary that asks why well over 45,000 Americans die every year for denial or lack of health care insurance.
Tue, Sep 14, 4:19 AM
jonraymond
Sign up on KickStarter to support our distribution effort and get DVDs and posters: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1764549137/got-healthcare-documentary-film-distribution
Mon, Sep 06, 3:42 PM
jonraymond
Announcement
Got Healthcare? - a documentary feature on the health care reform movement of 2009 is available on DVD
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Mike at 11/8/10 8:29 a.m.
This is great, thanks for posting it. All the best to you both. We hope to see you both more on Cinefile. Keep making stuff!