Here's today's Washington Watch Daily commentary from FRC Radio:
At the Sundance Film Festival, America’s government ensured that the show would go on. According to the American Family Association, two U.S. agencies helped to sponsor the event—and, until this week, they had managed to get away without publicizing it. Reports show that the National Endowment for the Arts and Public Broadcasting gave as much as $350,000 of your tax money to an event that featured graphic films on bestiality and child rape. The 2007 festival highlighted the documentary Zoo about sexual relationships between a man and his horse. The truth is, independent films should have independent support. You and I shouldn’t have to pay for Hollywood’s pet projects. Our money should be spent keeping America’s families safe—not exposing them to radical ideas that harm society. They may be partnering with filmmakers, but when it comes to understanding right from wrong, it’s apparent our government doesn’t get the big picture.
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Comments (2)
When it comes to art, there will always be someone offended. We need somehow to get the governmant out of the business of lending any finacial support to independent filmmakers.
February 28, 2007 8:56 AM | Comment Permalink
Political funding always comes with political pressure. But if art cant be offensive, it ceases to be art - it becomes kitsch. An endless repetition of the same ideas, as noone dares to try new things.
Im not sure if this film was mostly art or mostly documentory. Either way, I suspect it might be using the old trick of stiring up sone contriversy to create attention.
I am also quite confident that the FRC would have no objections at all if the government were spending its money to finance a film reflecting conservative views :> Everyone likes a good excuse to point to someone else as corrupted and dirty while polishing their own armor.
February 28, 2007 2:05 PM | Comment Permalink