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.
Ajax Phillips
Director
Daniel Joseph Watkins
Director
Karl Wolfgang
Director of Photography
Patrick Welch
Editor
Lucian Reed
Director of Photography
Tony Prikryl
Editor
George Geanopulos
Assistant Editor
Alex Buysse
Associate Producer
Will Znidaric
Supervising Editor
Alex Buysse
Assistant Editor
George Geanopulos
Associate Producer