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(12,325 posts) Thu Nov 1, 2012, 08:48 PM Nov 2012

Edward Norton's Homespun Campaign Documentary Debuts Tonight: We Hold These Truths

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Edward Norton's Homespun Campaign Documentary Debuts Tonight

To support the President, the actor sought to take the spotlight off himself and put it onto Obama's rank and file. An anti-celebrity approach to celebrity-glutted politics.

The short campaign documentary We Hold These Truths was produced by Edward Norton in collaboration with director Bennett Miller (Moneyball) and @radical.media.

Posted Nov 1, 2012 6:11pm EDT

By the end of each election season, the spectre of celebrities holding forth on their political views and stirring up controversy with ill-considered remarks becomes almost as common as lawn signs and Uncle Sam hats.

But stepping into the campaign in support of President Obama's re-election, actor Edward Norton has tried to venture in exactly the opposite of that well trod path. Teaming up with director Bennett Miller (Moneyball) and @radical.media, he has created an election season documentary with nary a hint of glitz, featuring, of all things, typical Americans from all walks of life talking about the core issues of what America means to them, and how those principles lead them to their Obama vote.

The seven minute film entitled We Hold These Truths, to be released online tonight, was the result of the actor's attempt to support the campaign without making it "about himself." Having previously made a HBO documentary, By the People, about the President, Norton remained friends with Obama guru David Axelrod, who called him in July looking to "get some filmmakers to think about creative ways to address the politics of the moment outside of the standard campaign ads and short cycle news media."

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