In response to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, a number of politically opposite filmmakers will be holding a film festival on September 9th-11th (nice choice of dates). Michael Moore Hates America will be shown, as well as a film that radio talker and author Larry Elder made in response to Moore’s Bowling for Columbine.

Lionel Chetwynd is just about the only conservative writer/producer/director in Hollywood with any power, and even he is mostly limited to made-for-cable movies. (Recently he and actor Tom Selleck made the excellent Ike: Countdown to D-Day, wherein the only really conservative message was the portrayal of De Gaulle as a snooty weasel.) His DC 9/11 will be shown at the festival.

What I like about this festival is that it takes the right tactic against a film like Moore’s. Instead of a boneheaded campaign to get Fahrenheit squelched from distribution, which will only play into Moore’s paranoid litany of ways he is an oppressed underdog, this festival is aimed at encouraging people with other viewpoints to also be heard:

Hubbard and wife, Ellen, both attorneys, co-founded the festival in the spirit of competition. Boycott efforts…. “are for the weak,” Hubbard said.