'Serial killer' movie project launches via crowdfunding
Brian Lilley, QMI Agency
First posted: Saturday, March 29, 2014 04:30 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, March 29, 2014 04:56 PM EDT
OTTAWA -- A campaign to produce a made-for-TV movie about "America's most prolific serial killer" through a crowdfunding website was caught up in controversy before it even launched.
Veteran journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer is looking to produce a movie about Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortion doctor convicted of multiple murders and 21 illegal abortions. Gosnell's crimes were made public after a grand jury investigation in Philadelphia in 2011, his trial last year attracted scant media attention despite the horrific nature of the crimes.
But McAleer's plan to raise more than $2 million via the website Kickstarter was thrown off course after the website objected to the description of the project and raised concerns about the political convictions behind the project.
"This is unacceptable to us and it should be unacceptable to any filmmaker particularly on a platform such as Kickstarter which claims to be all about artistic freedom," McAleer said.
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Brian Lilley, QMI Agency
First posted: Saturday, March 29, 2014 04:30 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, March 29, 2014 04:56 PM EDT
OTTAWA -- A campaign to produce a made-for-TV movie about "America's most prolific serial killer" through a crowdfunding website was caught up in controversy before it even launched.
Veteran journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer is looking to produce a movie about Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortion doctor convicted of multiple murders and 21 illegal abortions. Gosnell's crimes were made public after a grand jury investigation in Philadelphia in 2011, his trial last year attracted scant media attention despite the horrific nature of the crimes.
But McAleer's plan to raise more than $2 million via the website Kickstarter was thrown off course after the website objected to the description of the project and raised concerns about the political convictions behind the project.
"This is unacceptable to us and it should be unacceptable to any filmmaker particularly on a platform such as Kickstarter which claims to be all about artistic freedom," McAleer said.
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