Friday July 02, 2004

Enter the Interrotron

Filmmaker Errol Morris — who just won a long-deserved Oscar for The Fog of War — has agreed to shoot an advocacy commercial for MoveOn.org. As one might expect from a director who invented a dedicated technique for filming interviews, the spot will be made up of conversations with real people.

“This is a very simple idea,” Morris explains. “A different kind of political advertising. Not a prepared speech. Not a voice-over narrative, but rather Americans speaking one on one. Americans speaking to other Americans in their own words, expressing their beliefs and their hopes for the future.”

MoveOn is holding an online casting call to find a dozen people to appear in the commercial. Just fill out this survey to be considered.

Posted by jim at 11:45 AM ||