MASHED POTATOES wins Short Documentary Award

Our MASHED POTATOES documentary won the Short Documentary Award at the Ozone Film Festival!

MASHED POTATOES documents the occupation of the Texas bar ditches by antiwar activists outside of Crawford near the Presidential Ranch in August 2005.

Recorded in it’s entirety by one of the attorneys who was on the scene primarily to defend the rights of those directly involved in the uprising, the film captures that aspect of the event which could only be uncovered by one working deep within the organization managing the month long rebellion.

The main stream media missed the true story of Camp Casey.

MASHED POTATOES serves it up here for history.

The true patriots of the Crawford uprising were the unnamed individuals who were drawn to a dusty, lonely highway to rise in resistance against the Iraq invasion under the blazing Texas summer sun. Not unlike the protagonist in the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, who carved a mountain out of mashed potatoes, many of these people felt compelled to live and sleep in the ditches, each driven by internal passions they could not fully understand or explain. I was moved by the commitment of these ditch dwellers and I believe their stories must be heard in order to completely comprehend the deep sincerity of the antiwar movement, the historical significance of the occupation of Crawford, and the American patriotism displayed by these heroic, everyday citizens.

This is what democracy looks like.

Title of movie:
"Not unlike the protagonist in the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, who carved a mountain out of mashed potatoes, many of these people felt compelled to live and sleep in the ditches, each driven by internal passions they could not fully understand or explain."

Award:
Best short documentary at the festival!

supporting Cindy, and the troops. That was a very important turning point for many of us, and Cindy was the movement. She is so important for waking us up.

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