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: Daniel Joseph Watkins, Ajax Phillips.
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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 | Daniel Joseph Watkins | Director |
| Directing | Ajax Phillips | Director |
| Camera | Karl Wolfgang | Director of Photography |
| Production | Mimi Polk Gitlin | Producer |
| Production | Angus Wall | Producer |
| Editing | Tony Prikryl | Editor |
| Production | Alex Buysse | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Patrick Welch | Editor |
| Camera | Lucian Reed | Director of Photography |
| Editing | George Geanopulos | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Gustavo Santaolalla | Original Music Composer |
| Production | George Geanopulos | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Will Znidaric | Supervising Editor |
| Editing | Alex Buysse | Assistant Editor |
| Crew | Robert Fulton | Cinematography |
| Production | Kent Kubena | Executive Producer |
