Michael Moore Accused of Stiffing, Smearing Vendors: 'All I Would Like Is to Be Paid'
The famed documentarian, whose new film ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ is out this month, stands accused of not only failing to pay his film-fest bills, but smearing his vendors in the press.
Amy Zimmerman
09.13.18 4:09 AM ET
Last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, Michael Moore debuted his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9. The Daily Beast described the political doc as a fast-paced, wide-reaching project, jumping from Flint, Michigan to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and stopping along the way to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler). As Natalia Winkelman wrote, “Moore’s best zingers and most penetrating indictments land on the Democratic Party, whom he implicates (along with dominant liberal news media) as part of an establishment system continually churning in place to maintain the status quo and impede forward movement. He even calls out Obama on a few occasions: for letting down the people of Flint, for accepting Goldman Sachs money, for deporting immigrants, for drone strikes. But best of all, Moore acknowledges and emphasizes that he himself is not totally free from that establishment either.”
Apparently, Michael Moore is struggling to reconcile his revolutionary brand with his status as a famous, wealthy filmmaker. Simultaneously, critics of the documentarian are calling hypocrisy, insisting that Moore’s conduct is at odds with his reputation as a champion of the people.
In early June, Boston Light & Sound, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival. In the claim, BL&S stated that a total payment of $256,500 had been due by September 30, 2017, for their work on the 2017 film festival. “TCFF paid a $100,0000 deposit towards the Contract Amount on July 12, 2017,” legal docs claimed. “BL&S performed all of its obligations pursuant to the contract. However, since the 2017 film festival, TCFF has only paid an additional $2,000 toward the outstanding balance owed.” That brings the alleged balance down to $159,055.
Chapin Cutler, the President of Boston Light & Sound, a 13-year Film Fest collaborator, “said his 2017 contract with Film Fest, totaling $256,500, was comparable to past contracts and pricing has not changed,” the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported. In April 2018, Michael Moore revealed that the Traverse City Film Fest “ran a rare deficit last year.”
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...has been in the news.
pot/kettle
Michael Moore is an Independent, btw.
Since another one was a Democrat at the time, if only temporarily, it probably should be mentioned that our candidate Bernie Sanders had some issues with unpaid bills related to his campaign, requiring some municipalities to come after him for nonpayment. National City had to file a lawsuit after over a year of nonresponse to various collection attempts. The Vista Unified School District did eventually for some unclear reason pay a Vista city bill of $6000 bill for Sanders. However, there's no indication of Moore-type conflict, most bills were eventually paid by Sanders, and this was seemingly just sloppy management.
everything is about the 2016 primary.
Not about running short of money during one period and paying late.
And, no, it's not 2016 any more. But unless I missed it, Sanders is still in the game, which means his willingness to walk away from bills is of public interest. I'd like to know why that $6,000 came out of a school district budget. Did the schools have more money than they could use? That was likely some local legerdemain and nothing to do with him, but it would have been nice if Sanders had paid the bill.
I actually agree it is a bit of a cheap shot, bringing up such small matters in the life of a towering national figure, as seen by many loyal followers at least, who doesn't even write his own checks. I was just amused that being hard wired to dissent, labeling themselves as Independents, and being constitutionally unable to miss a good chance to badmouth Democrats, even when it risks electing Republicans, are not the only things these two have in common.
and throw out that moldy cake.
I had just moved from my hometown of Flint. It's hard to hear stuff like this about him. 
