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Documentary The makers of The War Room turn their cameras on yet another burgeoning political career. Al Franklen: God Spoke is a cinema verite pursuit of Al Franken, shot over the course of two years, which follows the former Saturday Night Live comedian turned best-selling author and political satirist, from his highly publicized feud with Bill O Reilly over Franken s blockbuster Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them to his relentless campaign against George Bush and the Right Wing in the 2004 election, and beyond. From his USO tour in Iraq, to the studios of liberal radio network Air America and onto the campaign trail, filmmakers Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus are granted entré to one of the most effective political satirists of our time. Franken fearlessly confronts pundits and politicians, blurring the boundaries between political satire and impassioned citizenry. Featuring a host of beltway insiders including Ann Coulter, Michael Moore, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy Jr., S
you know i wanted to say that when you look at these headlines and we would have maybe hundreds of headlines that we first started looking at a and it was just almost numbing to try to take in all these headlines. and as we started to look into the lives of these people and look for them as they lived their lives, each one just really touched us because it was the story of a human life that was lost. and sometimes they were shot by somebody they knew somebody they trusted. husband, brother. again there were the random shootings where somebody was just at the wrong place at the wrong time it was just really heartbreaking to go through each person s life and death as we did. i should think. were you able, nick, to gather families of these victims to watch the documentary and, if not, have you heard from them and gotten their reaction? yes, yes. we ve reached out to everybody who was in the film.