Local filmmaker wins national contest
A Charlottesville filmmaker’s video on health care reform has won a national contest sponsored by President Barack Obama’s Organizing for America.
Eric Hurt’s 30-second film, titled “I Deserve Health Care,” features four children at a playground speaking directly to the camera about their families’ need for affordable health care coverage.
“A year from now, I’ll break my leg and my parents will have to sell our house because we couldn’t afford health care,” one says.
“Two years from now, I’ll be diagnosed with leukemia,” another says, “and I’ll die because we couldn’t afford health care.”
The video was chosen out of nearly 1,000 submissions from across the country.
Hurt said he was pleasantly surprised “I Deserve Health Care” won because he thought it might be a little “too heavy.”
“The [submissions] ranged all over the place,” he said. “Some were funny. Some were heavy. Some were personal stories. Ours was one of the heaviest.”
Read the full story in Thursday’s Daily Progress.
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Having seen the clip, without knowing it was locally produced, I found it distasteful… I guess that’s what passes for ‘heavy’... because it exploits young children in what deserves to be an adult conversation. Not the first time, I would add, that the misguided Obama administration has encouraged and celebrated such shameful use of children—engaging in a subtle form of child pornography, for the right cause, is not only justified, but rewarded. How sick is that?
Heretofore, I’ve only known fascists to use youth in such a blatantly inappropriate way. Is that where we are?
The irony is that the same generation being burdened with an insurmountable, unconsciable debt burden, is being used to sell it… as if health care reform ought to be sold (or dismissed) as if it were a feminine hygeine product, or a cold cereal.
There is no cure for sophistry in a ‘reform’ that is a sophism.
Too bad that health care comes with a lifetime of debt that will prevent them from buying health insurance for their own kids when they grow up.
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