The film I would like to see made is not likely to be a big moneymaker. No anti-war film is, unless Michael Moore makes it, but even his boxoffice did not win the election nor slow down the war. Like all movies promoting peace, his preached to the converted.

My objective is the first anti-war or peace movement to have an effect.

The general public always supports force when provoked by fear. To paraphrase Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels speaking at the Nuremburg trials, Starting war is easy. You just get the people scared.

Peace is not so easy, as history shows. As I point out in reference to my Hopi films on www.venicevisionarymedia.net,
the Hopi record of a thousand years of peace is many hundreds of years beyond the peace enjoyed by any other society since the dawn of human agriculture. Wars now are everywhere, all the time.

The only chance I see for a film which might have a genuine effect in promoting peace would be educational. The rich and powerful who run the world and arrange the wars all send their children to college. These future leaders would be the target audience for a film explaining how and why most wars are startedthat is, with lies and for power and profit. The script I see would follow a selection of docudrama scenes from wars through history, as the lies and powers and profits have grown. A theatrical version might be a mockumentary comedy called HOW TO START A WAR, but for an education version, to get distribution probably requires playing it mostly straight, focusing on the chilling intrigues which produce the violence. Research is necessary to be accurate. A number of locations and cultures would be needed. Animation might be an alternative.

While I would like to make such a film, never having made a film for peace, I do not at this time have access to the necessary financing. I would offer whatever help I couldto anyone and everyone else who would take the idea and make it, or to anyone who would want to work cooperatively. I have done writing, producing, directing, some editing, even some camera.

Alan Gorg
venicevisionarymedia@yahoo.com
www.venicevisionarymedia.net