Doc Maker, Moore Collaborator, Shopping Film on Bush's Murky Military Service
http://www.observer.com/2009/media/doc-maker-moore-collaborator-shopping-film-bushs-murky-military-serviceDocumentary filmmaker and longtime Michael Moore collaborator Meghan O’Hara is currently working on a feature-length documentary about George W. Bush’s military service in the Texas Air National Guard, The Observer has learned.
Ms. O’Hara, who field-produced Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, is in the early stages of getting the project off the ground. According to a source with knowledge of the situation, Ms. O’Hara’s New York–based production company, HonestEngineTV, does not yet have a venue for the documentary and is still seeking funding.
The veteran producer (who has a long list of screen credits, including directing a 1998 HBO-Cinemax documentary, Roe vs. Roe: Baptism by Fire and producing Mr. Moore’s Sicko) has already shot enough preliminary footage to complete work on a trailer for the film. HonestEngineTV, we’re told, is currently shopping it to potential partners, including HBO and the Weinstein Company.
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If successfully funded, Ms. O’Hara’s project would be the first major, in-depth documentary to dig into the murky subject. Reached on Monday morning, Ms. O’Hara declined to comment.