Veteran journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer’s latest project hit controversy before it even launched, which McAleer attributes to political agendas in Hollywood and elsewhere.
McAleer and his wife and creative partner, Ann McElhinney, have joined forces with Magdalena Segieda to produce a movie about Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortion doctor convicted of multiple murders and 21 illegal abortions. The trio previously produced the documentary
FrackNation.
However, their plan to raise more than $2 million via the crowd-funding website Kickstarter was thrown off course when the website objected to the description of the project and raised concerns about the political convictions behind it.
"This is unacceptable to us and it should be unacceptable to any filmmaker particularly on a platform such as Kickstarter which claims to be all about artistic freedom,” McAleer said. “Kickstarter’s actions are particularly odious and alarming because they are an attempt to censor factual descriptions of a serial killer’s actions.”
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