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Award winning US doc for SA festival
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
A ground-breaking new documentary, Courting Condi, about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will screen at the International Film Festival South Africa to be held at the Everglades Hotel in Dargle, KwaZulu Natal, on 7 November. The documentary reveals Rice in various guises - concert pianist, figure skater, orphan, football fan, virgin, oil-woman, liar, incompetent, war profiteer, and torturer:
Courting Condi unveils a brand new genre - a musical docu-tragi-comedy. The press release states: “Think Borat meets Fahrenheit 9/11 meets Mamma Mia! It’s one musician’s attempt to win the heart of the world’s most powerful woman, Condoleezza Rice. Starring Condi herself, as well as Devin Ratray (Home Alone, Surrogates), Adrian Grenier (Entourage),Jim Norton (HBO’s Monster Rain), Oscar-winning songwriter Carol Connors (Rocky/The Rescuers), Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell’s chief of staff), and Frank Luntz (consultant to Schwarzenegger and the Bush family).”
Courting Condi has already won twenty-five awards on the festival circuit, and survived various attempts by the Bush Administration to shut it down, as documented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courting_Condi.
The film tells Rice’s tale through the eyes of a romantic musician trying to win her heart. Devin Ratray, who played Buzz in Home Alone, and is the star of the new action thriller, Surrogates, travels across America to find out about Bush’s chief confidante, whom Forbes rated as 2005’s most powerful woman in the world, and who has been tipped as a leading Republican capable of mounting a presidential challenge to Obama in 2012.
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