: A crowdfunding project from Bradford West MP George Galloway and director Scott Imren to fund a documentary film about Tony Blair has raised almost £130,000.The campaign originally set a target of raising £50,000 in 40 days on the Kickstarter website but revised it to £250,000 after hitting the target in less than a week.
Galloway has billed the documentary, ‘The Killing of Tony Blair, as part of a campaign to have the former prime minister tried for war crimes in an international court.
Hove-based director Imren said: “Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter are allowing film makers to bypass traditional television commissioners and film studios and talk directly to their audiences.
“We are already getting lots of feedback from our backers alongside many offers of help. It is a truly liberating and interactive experience.”
The campaign has six days to go and has £126,283 pledged from 3,238 backers. Galloway and Imren now hope to turn the documentary into a feature-length film for global cinema release and the project has been boosted by an offer of help from Steven Finnerty of the band which wrote The Sopranos’ theme tune, Alabama 3.
Galloway added: “I knew that there were thousands of people throughout the world who despise Tony Blair for the wars he led the UK into but people have really put their money behind their convictions. I am stunned and humbled by the response.”
Respect MP Galloway was expelled by the Labour party after his rigid and outspoken opposition to the British and US invasion of Iraq in 2003. He became one of the most high-profile figures of the campaign against the war.
According to the campaign blurb, the film will be the “definitive” documentary about the Blair years and claims the former PM “killed the Labour party as we knew it”.
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