Minimovies - Dear Oprah - Episode 1/10 (Discovering Non-Voting America)

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Episode 1: Discovering Non-Voting America

In early September 2007 we touch US shores in New York City and move over to the political heartland of the US, Washington DC, for a crash course about low voter turnout in America.
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Dear Oprah
Non-Voting America's Wildest Dream.

Almost a hundred million Americans dont vote. Even when they're electing their president and, with that, the most powerful political leader in the world. A year before the presidential elections of 2008 a crew of young European filmmakers goes on a journey all across the country in a little old motorhome to search for Americas missing voters. Who are theyω Why dont they voteω Can a young and fresh presidential candidate as Barack Obama make them voteω How would American politics change if more young people, single women, poor white people, African-Americans and Latinos would start votingω Who better than Oprah could get Americas non-voters to vote in 2008.

Director

Kasper Verkaik (1979) "Dear Oprah" is his debut as filmmaker. Prior to that he made documentaries for Dutch national public radio, and wrote freelance for several magazines and newspapers. Early 2007 he finished his Master's in Communication Science with a thesis about the Iraq war coverage by US news media, based on interviews with numerous journalists at major US newspapers and tv networks. It received the award for best thesis of 2007 from the national trade magazine of Dutch journalists, and Kasper is currently working on a documentary about the same subject. He also makes theater and this year co-founded the young television lab The Formatfactory. Kasper works and lives in New York and Amsterdam.

Camera: Pierre Rezus
Sound: Jaap Hermans
Editor: Axel Skovdal Roelofs

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[IMDWT]

Why won't it let me comment?

[SubmarineChannel]

You just did

[MrPuddingmasta]

I vote, I vote for God if there is anyone I want thinking for me it's God.

[daimonmagus]

Every vote, regardless of for or against whom or what, is a vote in favor of the idea that it is right and good for one group of society to enforce its will upon each and every individual who resists through violence, and to fund itself through theft, also collected at threat of violence.

Do you believe that theft and violence make good foundations for a just society?

If not, then why are you voting?

[arshaneyt]

lol..lol...lol...

[IMDWT]

I have a right to complain without voting, thank you. I don't see anywhere in the 1st amendment that "if you don't vote, this amendment doesn't apply to you." There are many countries where people can't or don't vote, and that does not automatically make them non-citizens, or even that they don't care. I plan on becoming a Doctor of Psychology and make a difference THAT way. Not by putting a check on a piece of paper.

[KARStarla]

After watching "American blackout" it actually confirmed to me the reason i dont vote, then watch "Ron Paul supporters turned away" and "hacking democracy" and "censoring Ron Paul" and many more I believe the elections are rigged

[cstyllis]

tgfmrf, That has to rate as one of the most ignorant things that I have ever read in my life lol lol lol lol lol ... and I'm not an American.

[cazade]

If you don't vote ,what ever country your from, you can't have your say. You can't comment on anything from rubbish collection to what country you politicans want to invade.Vote- at least you stood up to be counted.They still might not listen, but at least you have a right as a voter to air your opinion.

[tgfmrf]

your all THICK fuckers in America too busy shagging your relatives to go vote. Anyway why does it take 9 months to choose a dick head?