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Running Time: 66 minutes

SYNOPSIS

By the Eighties, John Zielinski was a well-known author and photographer. His work had appeared in Life Magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and countless other publications. But in a devastating 1984 contract dispute, he lost $50,000 and his professional credibility. "This was the opening shot - turning me back into an investigative reporter."

Today Zielinski is the most blacklisted author in the history of Iowa. For 25 years he has dedicated his life to exposing human traffickers, pedophiles, drug dealers and Satanists. But as he says, "They don't kill you unless you become effective." The film traces the rise and fall of a true American original who has sacrificed everything in his quest for justice. Filmmakers Chase Thompson and Ryan Walker tell the story without voice over, using 47 years of source material, new interviews and music by Mark Speckman.

GENESIS

Zielinski walked into Columbia Access Television holding a huge, muddy VHS camera. It was just the three of us. He said, "There is a tape stuck in here that will bring down the U.S. government. Can you help me?"

DIRECTOR BIOS

Chase Thompson is a film instructor at Stephens College, a liberal arts school for women in Columbia, Missouri. He is currently the Board President of Columbia Access Television. Chase is working on two documentaries: "Grandma vs. the Woods" and "I'm Not Through: The Legend of Sir Lattimore Brown."

Ryan Walker is the Program Director of Columbia Access Television, an award-winning independent media center in Missouri. He has produced over 185 shows for CAT and programmed more than 3,000. Walker is now working on "The Bootlegger," a documentary about the most notorious criminal in Western Illinois history.

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