LAS
VEGAS, N.M., Aug. 1, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- In April of 2024 Las Vegas NM filmmaker
Jim Terr of Blue Canyon Productions wrote to 25 former
Trump employees and associates who have publicly criticized the
ex-president, asking them to interview for a project called "Trump
Experts Speak Out." "My idea," Terr says, "was that all these
first-hand critiques should be in one place, where they can be seen
and considered."
Filmmaker's new video claims objective
feedback from former Trump associates
The project's website, www.TrumpExperts.com, is headed: "Need a
mechanic? Dentist? President? Ask for references!"
Only one requested interviewee, Anthony
Scaramucci, former White House communications director and
an investment fund manager in New
York, agreed to be interviewed. "And I'm glad he did," Terr
says, "because he provided a very honest, non-judgmental view of
Trump's appeal, in a thoughtful historical, psychological, and
moral context, the longest interview I've seen him do
anywhere."
Eight other ex-associates are portrayed by re-enactors in the
63-minute video, quoting their actual words. Prior to being
compiled into the final video, these component interviews racked up
over 60,000 views on YouTube in one week.
Those include White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly, former secretary of state
Rex Tillerson, national security
advisor John Bolton, communications
director Stephanie Grisham, personal
lawyer Michael Cohen, national
security advisor H.R. McMaster, former White House attorney
Ty Cobb, and director of strategic
communication Alyssa Farah Griffin,
portrayed in the video by "outed" CIA agent Valerie Plame, a New
Mexico resident who narrated Terr's 2019 feature film, "The
Brill Building Movie."
Terr raised the $12,000 budget to
produce and publicize the project on Kickstarter, and is making it
available free for non-profit use on any platform or venue,
including movie theaters.
In the final minutes of his interview, Scaramucci says of the
ex-president, "I have never met in my life somebody as insecure as
Donald Trump. And this insecurity
has manifested itself in this hyper-masculinity, in the bullying
and the demeaning of others. It's very un-American and it's very
uncharacteristic of what Americans like. Americans typically like
the underdog personality who is a go-for-it type of person who
loves other human beings and wants to pull people together."
Terr says of Scaramucci's interview, "He really added to my
understanding of demagoguery, and I thought I was an expert, as
I've devoted my life to studying and warning about this, about how
politicians alarm people for their personal advancement."
The video is dedicated to former president Jimmy Carter, and to fellow filmmaker
David Hoffman.
Terr has produced award-winning, foundation-funded documentaries
on World War Two veterans, Holocaust survivors, elder citizens,
auto safety for teens, and other subjects, as well as interviews
with other news and entertainment figures on his YouTube channel,
which has over 2.5 million views to date.
He is also a country and comedy singer/songwriter/producer,
whose work has just been issued on a retrospective CD called
"Treasures from the Blue Canyon Vaults" on Germany's Bear Family Records label, and is
representing several film and television properties at New Mexico
Film Properties LLC, www.NMFP-LLC.com.
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SOURCE Blue Canyon Productions