Michael Moore
Documentary film maker Michael Moore has landed a big boost for his Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan. Pop icon Madonna is coming to it. The singers I am Because We Are documentary, about Aids orphans in Malawi, will headline the alternative film festival next August, And the Material Girl will be there in person. Happy Moore says, "Madonna will present the film, watch it with the audience and conduct a question-and-answer session afterwards. "It’s a huge coup for the Film Festival, and for Traverse City." And the film maker, who has taken the United States medical profession and President George W. Bush to task in his films, has nothing but praise for Madonna’s new release, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France.He adds, "She spent the past couple of years filming what the people go through, and the efforts to help them. I saw the film about a month ago. It’s a fantastic, powerful movie." Madonna produced and narrated the documentary after travelling to Malawi, where she met her adopted baby David Banda.
