Controversial film producer Michael Moore is cathartic a film--for free!
Titled Slacker Uprising, the new film is a 97-minute-long look at Moore's 62-city tour during the 2004 election to rally youth voters. For three weeks beginning Sept. 23, the film will viewable online as a free download. Fans canful sign up to receive the download at slackeruprising.com.
Moore said the decision is one he hopes will encourage people to get off the couch and vote, as well as to shew fans his gratitude as he approaches the 20th anniversary of his first-class honours degree film, 1989's Roger & Me.
"I thought it'd be a squeamish way to celebrate my 2oth year of doing this," Moore said. "And also help get out the vote for November. I've been thinking or so what I want to do to help the election this year."
Moore says he originally considered releasing Slacker Uprising theaterically as Michael Moore's Big Election Year Movie, just as he did with 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11, which was extremely critical of President Bush's administration.
Slacker Uprising testament be the first major film to be released in a free, online format. Moore says neither he nor the allocator, Brave New Films, design to net profit from the release. He does however, admit that the celluloid is geared towards Democrats.
"This film, genuinely isn't for anybody other than the choir,'' he says. ''But that's because I believe the choir needs a strain to sing every now and and so.''
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