Tracey Eaton, the documentary filmmaker behind God Bless America, Child spoke about how the film exhibits the significance of the Pollock household’s Christian religion and the way it “helped them endure” persecution by the federal authorities after the January 6, 2021, Capitol protest.
Throughout an look on Breitbart Information Saturday, Eaton defined that the film follows Ben Pollock, a hay farmer in Polk County, Florida and his household, significantly his kids, Olivia and Jonathan Pollock, who had been on the January 6 Capitol protest and went on the run.
“I needed to attempt to precisely painting their story. Initially, the title of this documentary was, Purple, White and Indignant, and I like that title, however as I acquired into the documentary and acquired to know Ben and his household, I spotted that, yeah, they had been indignant in sure moments, however the story actually isn’t about their anger. The story was — one other essential factor was the significance of their Christian religion and the way it helped them endure the years-long prosecution by the federal government. And, so I modified the title to, God Bles America, Child,” Eaton defined.
Eaton defined that the title of the film is a quote from Ben Pollock, which Eaton thought “was a extra becoming title” than the unique identify, “Purple, White and Indignant.”
“At one level he went to Mar-a-Lago, and he was on the airport and he was filming, doing a home-video of Trump’s aircraft and simply spontaneously type of blurts out, ‘God Bless America, Child.’ I believed that was a extra becoming title than, Purple, White, and Indignant. As a result of a variety of instances within the media — I’ve labored in mainstream media for years and years, we’d are likely to type of downplay faith and on this case, I made a decision to simply comply with the story, comply with who they’re, not who I perhaps thought they had been.”
Eaton went on to clarify that Ben Pollock’s kids, Olivia and Jonathan, went on the run as a result of they felt they “weren’t going to get a good trial,” including that Jonathan, who went on the run first, discovered “to not go to huge field shops.”
“They had been charged, and since they thought they weren’t going to get a good trial, they finally determined to simply go on the run. It’s actually attention-grabbing speaking to Jonny and Olivia about — Jonny mentioned he would typically put on disguises, he would be taught to not go to huge field shops as a result of they’ve all of the cameras, so he would go to little mom-and-pop joints if he wanted one thing.”
“And, he mentioned he traveled round, he had help from different People, and he went from state to state. He was on the run first, after which later Olivia reduce off her ankle bracelet and joined him, together with a household good friend Joseph Hutchinson. So, all three had been, at one level, on the run collectively they usually had been engaged on a ranch in Florida. And, in line with Ben somebody — there was reward cash, and somebody instructed the FBI the place they had been.”
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