Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020)
Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.
Directors: Ajax Phillips, Daniel Joseph Watkins.
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Hunter S. Thompson as Self (archive footage) |
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Bob Braudis as Self |
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Joe Edwards as Self |
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Alex Sweetman as Self |
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Ed Bastian as Self |
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Travis Fulton as Self |
| Directing | Ajax Phillips | Director |
| Directing | Daniel Joseph Watkins | Director |
| Production | Angus Wall | Producer |
| Production | Mimi Polk Gitlin | Producer |
| Crew | Robert Fulton | Cinematography |
| Camera | Karl Wolfgang | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Patrick Welch | Editor |
| Camera | Lucian Reed | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Tony Prikryl | Editor |
| Editing | George Geanopulos | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Alex Buysse | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Will Znidaric | Supervising Editor |
| Sound | Gustavo Santaolalla | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Alex Buysse | Assistant Editor |
| Production | George Geanopulos | Associate Producer |
