End the awards weekend...for Good!
After attending the 2008 IDA Documentary Awards and DocuFest, make sure to catch a free screening of IDA/Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award-winning movie Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, presented by GOOD Magazine and The International Documentary Association.
The screening will take place on Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 7:30 PM at THE GOOD SPACE, 6824 Melrose Ave. (between La Brea & Highland).
A reception will follow the screening featuring a Q&A with filmmaker Stefan Forbes.
This event is free and open to the public. However, you need to RSVP by noon on Sunday, Dec. 7, here: www.goodmagazine.com/events/decboogie
Need some info about Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story? Well, uh, good, because here's some right here plus the trailer (now don't you want to see it?):
This film is a comprehensive look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. Atwater mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush while leading the Republican Party to historic victories and writing the Republican Party's winning playbook. In eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and enemies, the film re-examines Atwater's crucial role in the remaking of the Republican Party. To Democrats offended by his cutthroat style, Atwater was a political assassin dubbed by one Congresswoman "the most evil man in America". But for most Republicans, he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American heartland and his unapologetic vision of politics as war. Director Stefan Forbes offers a timely documentary for this election year as he examines the charming yet Machiavellian godfather of the modern negative political campaign.