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Hi Gang,
I’m just running around trying to get a good crowd to come and build some buzz for the film. It’s been five years since I thought this guy Dean might have a chance given the Independent spirited moderate next to gruff New Hampshire. Turns out Howard was a volvo driving, latte drinking, berkenstock wearin’ hippie from the pot loving state of Vermont. Who would have thunk? I was so off. Thanks to all our fellow Democrats like Joe Lieberman for setting me straight! ‘
Bring your bucket of tomatoes to the show for when John Kerry uses the word loyalty in the same sentence with Lieberman.
Read on…
Seriously, thanks for letting me post and please come and enjoy the show even though the time slots were all I could get for now. It really will be nice to see the reaction from people I was in the trenches with back in the early days. It should be fun. Here’s my home grown press release:
Howard Dean Movie Sneak Previews!
Montpelier’s Savoy on Jan. 26 and Burlington’s Roxy on Jan. 27 @ 11 a.m.
Monday, January 14, 2008 CONTACT: HEATH EIDEN 802-253-4422 heatheiden@aol.com
(Stowe, Vermont) Three years after Howard Dean’s revolutionary presidential campaign ended where it started in Burlington, Vermont, two sneak previews of a movie about the movement will be shown in Montpelier and Burlington on January 26 and 27 at 11 a.m. for a small donation ($10 or “whatever you think it’s worth at the end”).
The 90-minute feature film, “Dean And Me: Roadshow Of An American Primary,” follows Howard Dean in his run for President through the 2006 mid-term elections. Along the way, Heath Eiden, amateur journalist and historian, set out to capture what he feels the mainstream media was somehow missing. Doggedly at the center of the race, the filmmaker catches up close and personal, what the rest of the country only saw on CNN and Fox News. (video clips can be seen at http://thegrassrootsmovie.com)
Eiden follows Dean, the movement, and the many characters on the center stage of American presidential politics, including; Hillary Clinton, Martin Sheen, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, David Gergen, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. The film shows the full campaign and leaves it to viewers to decide if this is any way to elect a President.
“Vermonters should feel proud as they watch what is happening today on America’s political landscape,” said Eiden. “The people are saying ‘enough’ to Bush and the conservative mess that’s being passed on to our children. Democratic National Committee Chairman Dean’s warning in 2004 is now being trumpeted throughout the country by today’s presidential candidates.”
The filmmaker says he felt the need to do something after it became apparent that the events of 911 were going to be used to manipulate the fears of Americans by government officials instead of uniting the world.
“I had this child on the way back then, and many of us just felt this urgent sense of helplessness staring in the bottomless pit that would become the Iraq war. When Dean started speaking truth to power in our own backyards I started plans to help in the only way I really knew how to,” said Eiden, who won awards and a college scholarship for the historical documentaries he made in his native state of Minnesota.
The director is going to share his film with Vermont first by showing two sneak previews of the documentary “rough” cut. The first one will be at Montpelier’s Savoy theater on Saturday, January 26 at 11 a.m. The second one will be the next day at Merrill’s Roxy Cinema in Burlington on Sunday, January 27, also at 11 a.m.
Besides raising awareness, finishing costs and getting input on the final cut, the purpose for showing the film now, said Eiden, is that he wants folks to share in the project with the same bottom-up spirit the Dean campaign was run in 2004.
“People really felt like they were part of something during the height of that movement,” said Eiden. “For many newcomers to their political process, it was the first time they really felt like they had a say in their own democracy.”
CONTACT: HEATH EIDEN 802-253-4422 or 802-888-5450 heatheiden@aol.com