Whittaker Chambers documentary competes at Indiewire
""This month in 1950, Alger Hiss, an American lawyer and government official, and a Soviet spy, was convicted of perjury and sentenced to five years in prison. He was tried and convicted thanks to the efforts of Whittaker Chambers. A former communist himself, Chambers turned from what he later called “the vision of Man without God” and brought Hiss’ true political affiliations and allegiance to light. Chambers was one of our nation’s greatest anti-communists, and, as the author of “Witness,” has left a lasting mark on both conservatism and U.S. history.
Journalist and author Mark Judge is now teaming up with director Paul Moon to make a documentary about Chambers’ compelling and historic life.
“It’s a film that needs to be made for the same reasons that the works of Dante, St. Augustine and William F. Buckley (a friend of Chambers) need to be preserved,” Judge said. “America’s public schools and academia are certainly not interested in remembering the man who revealed Soviet espionage in the United States government.”
Judge and Moon’s project, “The Story of Whittaker Chambers,” is currently competing for recognition and support at Indiewire.com. Each day Indiewire picks a “Project of the Day” to feature, and every week readers vote for one project to consult with an independent film website like SnagFilms or IndieGoGo. These “Project of the Week” winners compete to be the “Project of the Month,” and the winner gets to consult with the Sundance Institute, which runs the esteemed Sundance Film Festival. Voting is today, and it’s free. To support “The Story of Whittaker Chambers,” visit http://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/pomzh4m to vote.
And here’s a poignant and applicable quote from Chambers that should resonate today: “Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith is the central problem of this age.”""