On 9-11, filmmaker Paul Cross was doing post-production work in Washington DC when he heard about the "terrorist" attack on the Pentagon. Hours later he visited the Pentagon and saw that the official story was a lie.
"There was no passenger jet wreckage, no lawn scorching, no damage to lamp posts and fences, and no construction materials in the path of the alleged jet,” Cross told me. "I immediately realized it was a hoax, and that so-called attack on the World Trade Center was also a hoax."
Cross says he was in mourning for weeks. "Literally in tears for what has become of this country."
He decided to make the feature film Severe Visibility to alert his fellow citizens. It’s a dramatization, not a documentary, because Cross felt documentaries preach to the converted. He wants audiences to identify with the protagonist's horror as he realizes that the Bush regime got away with murdering 3,000 Americans.
Cross wrote, directed, and starred in the 90-minute feature, and raised over $500,000 from friends and family. Many actors etc. wanted to participate, and worked for very little.
Naturally, Cross can't find a distributor, and can’t get the movie shown at film festivals in the USA. The film festival people say their corporate owners or sponsors won’t permit it.
“The truth will set you free, so the powerbrokers suppress it. What is everyone so afraid of?” Cross asks.
No one in the mainstream press will interview him. No one will review his film. This is proof of how art and information are controlled in our supposedly "free" society.
(Many politically sensitive movies never see the light of day. For example, director Henry Bean was forced to show his movie, The Believer -- about a Jewish neo-Nazi --to a rabbi and some matrons at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA. The Jews made sure it never reached theaters.)
Paul Cross has received hate mail and death threats. "The truth hurts. People can't face it.”
But the film has been embraced abroad. "The media tells people the truth in other countries.”
