Gosnell Movie Reaches Goal; Vows to Build ‘Army’
Here’s a story for the nightly news: a plucky upstart
overcomes establishment hostility to reach a seemingly impossible goal. The
problem is that the nightly news is the establishment, and the Gosnell Movie project,
which just reached its initial crowd-funding goal, deals with something they
don’t want to talk about.
Headed by producer Phelim McAleer and wife Ann McElhinney, the Gosnell Movie campaign has reached its initial goal of raising $2.1 million from more than 23,000 individual donors through the crowd-funding site Indiegogo. The money raised will fund a scripted TV drama based on abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s trial and grand jury report. But McAleer and McElhenny aren’t done.
Abortion Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted
last May of murdering babies in his
McAleer was determined to hold the media accountable. “The
media and
But having reached the financial goal, despite censorship from Kickstarter, their original crowd-funding site, and media silence when they surpassed Spike Lee’s crowd-funding record, they now have another objective in the campaign. They’re initiating a “stretch goal,” a procedure introduced by many projects after they reach their initial target.
The stretch goal isn’t financial. “We want to build an army,” said McAleer. “We want 30,000 people to donate to the project – we want to send a message to the networks and cable channels that there is an audience out there and we want to prove that by showing all these people were willing to pay for this film to be made.” He stressed that even giving just a dollar helps drive home the point: exposing the media’s near-blackout of the story.
