Pay 2 Play - 11/25/14

This week’s featured film is called PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy’s High Stakes directed by John Wellington Ennis.

This film takes a close look at the role of money in politics and how it has come to control the outcomes of elections and the legislation Congress considers and passes into law. It follows a few election cycles in Ohio as an example of what happens everywhere in the country. It goes into Alec, Koch Brothers and the Occupy Movement. It even gives a history of the game of Monopoly and fraud that occurred even in respect to America’s most popular board game of all time.

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John Wellington Ennis, Director / Producer, is a filmmaker, activist, and father. His previous films are FREE FOR ALL!: One Dude’s Quest to Save Democracy and the Upright Citizens Brigade‘s Wild Girls Gone, starring Amy Poehler. Ennis has written for The Huffington Post, The Onion, and Melrose & Fairfax. He is a co-founder of Video the Vote, a citizen journalism project covering election problems, and is on the board of Public Interest Pictures. He attended the film schools at New York University and University of Southern California and has taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA Extension.

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Holly Mosher, Executive Producer, is an award-winning filmmaker who brings socially conscious films to the public. After graduating with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Holly produced a number of commercials and feature films. In 2004 she made her directorial debut with her award-winning documentary, Hummingbird, about two nonprofits in Brazil that work with street kids and women suffering domestic violence. Afterwards, she produced two films on the pharmaceutical industry: Side Effects, starring Katherine Heigl, and Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety. She co-produced Maybe Baby, and executive produced Vanishing of the Bees, FREE FOR ALL!, and Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes. The second film she directed, Bonsai People – The Vision of Muhammad Yunus, is currently airing on American Public Television. The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top up-and-coming independent film producers.