Need some inspiration? New documentary -- "Run, Granny, Run" (Granny D)

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/10/4443/

New Documentary Depicts 94 Year Old’s Senate Run
It was broadcast on HBO on Oct. 18

At 89, Doris Haddock walked 3,200 miles across the country to draw attention to campaign finance reform. At 94, she waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate. Now, at 97, she will see those feats on screen in a documentary.

“Run Granny Run” depicts Haddock’s 2004 decision - with no money and no campaign experience - to go from an activist for voter registration to actively seeking votes in a campaign against the powerful incumbent Republican Sen. Judd Gregg.

The documentary initially had been planned as a road-trip film chronicling Haddock’s efforts to register women and minorities in swing states during a critical election year. But when the presumptive Democratic nominee dropped out of the Senate race, Haddock jumped in on the last day to file.

Filmmaker Marlo Poras decided to hang on though the November election, and recorded 350 hours of footage. “I was thrown into the fire and just kept on following her,” Poras said in a telephone interview.

“Run Granny Run” won the audience award at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. It will be broadcast on HBO at 9 p.m. on Oct. 18.

See the video at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=66905&mesg_id=66905

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1. Watched it last Saturday

Fabulous. What an inspiration.