Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

90 mins
Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.

Angus Wall

Producer

Robert Fulton

Cinematography

Karl Wolfgang

Director of Photography

Lucian Reed

Director of Photography

George Geanopulos

Assistant Editor

Alex Buysse

Associate Producer

Will Znidaric

Supervising Editor

Gustavo Santaolalla

Original Music Composer

Alex Buysse

Assistant Editor

George Geanopulos

Associate Producer

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