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Free Historical Feature Film: Lessons from an American Primary

Heath Eiden is an award winning filmmaker whose work is archived in the Minnesota Historical Society.

Heath Eiden directed, shot and produced “Dean and Me: Lessons from an American Primary” following the events of 911 as America was rushed into war by those who would benefit from it the most.

He focused on media figures and shows viewers what happens to a presidential candidate, in this case former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, when one dares to call out the lies being told by war profiteers and the establishment.

The film questions the corporate mainstream media function in American society and asks, “is this any way to elect a President?”

Using the resources around him, the director hits the road to find out the answers.

Eiden creates his own “media empire (and his own press credentials),” and hits the road across America as “DeanTV’s” lone correspondent.

He uses Dean’s epic 2004 meteoric rise and fall as a grassroots-powered presidential candidate to show how Americans are corralled into false choices in their elections.

As he knocks cameras across the country with big time media circus players, Eiden films everyone from grassroots volunteers to the big names in politics.

The film serves as evidence of what happens to any outside-the-establishment challenges to the entrenched power within the two-party political system.

The lesson is timeless and was recently honored with a podcast describing how the film was made by Eiden 20 years later and the lessons he learned over time.

Did you learn a lesson?