As scooped by our friends at Tone Madison, a Madison-produced documentary project is in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign. Forward: Anger Into Action will look to assess a perceived disparity between Madison’s progressive disposition and a studied failure to act on that liberal philosophy: a failure that, according to the filmmakers, have manifested themselves in the shooting of Tony Robinson and the city’s “school to prison pipeline.”
The project, co-directed by sibling team Jamie Quam & Jonathon Leslie-Quam, had reached about 10% of its $15,000 goal at the time of this writing with 10 days left before its campaign ends. And with IndieGoGo, Quam and Leslie-Quam can retain any donations regardless of whether their target is reached.
If there was one positive to come out of the Act 10 protests, it’s that the Governor’s legislation inspired a surfeit of home grown documentaries on the subject, some of which were more successful than others (the best of them, coincidentally, shares a name with this one). Judging solely from the campaign page and a gorgeously shot “good faith” promo, Forward: Anger Into Action‘s team seems to have their hearts in the right place, and appearances by Race to Equity’s Erica Nelson and Reverend Dr. Alexander Gee promise pedigreed insight. The challenge will be to develop an incisive social and municipal critique while avoiding the navel-gazing soapboxes of other films best left unmentioned.