Sunday morning, Gail Dolgin said it was important that the Oscars honored documentaries for a number of reasons. The most practical was it helped the films reach a wider audience. So I'm going to tell you how you can see the nominated films.
Dolgin and Vicente Franco were interviewed about their Oscar nominated film "Daughter From Danang" on Larry Bensky's show on KPFA. Dolgin said attending the awards tonight was, "Truly bittersweet." When Bensky asked what they would say in their 45 seconds if they won, she said, "we were just trying to figure that out ourselves. We have never planned any of our presentations." They were going to wear peace pins and speak out against the war since the message of their film was, "when war ends, it takes generations to heal." And Franco added that would also let people know they could see it on PBS April 7th. After the interview they were going to make a sign for their limo saying, "Another nominee for peace."
"Bowling for Columbine" which won is still in theaters (it will expand to 150 or 200 on Friday) and will be released on DVD (it curently is the #4 seller on Amazon). Moore invited all the of the documentary nominees on stage with him and was booed when he made an anti-Bush anti-war speech (imagine the reaction if someone made a pro-war speech at the Oscars and was booed).
He said he ask them to join him in solidarity because, "We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious election results, that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons...We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you."
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