Award-winning director Richard Butchins has achieved a stunning landmark in documentary filmmaking. The Last American Freak Show' explores the shocking world of people choosing to exploit their disabilities in order to be seen as performers in control of their own lives rather than be perceived as victims these amazing residents-of-the-road sing dance spit fire and party heavily taking fierce joy out of life. At first Richard a disabled filmmaker has a dim view of this. A massive 3000-mile odyssey from Portland Oregon to Austin Texas in an old school bus run on stolen... cooking oil helps change his mind but maybe not for the better. You will never regret watching this fascinating journey. Shouldn't we all run away and join the circus? Could you survive it? [show more]
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Documentary from award-winning film-maker Richard Butchins, following the lives of disabled performers. The pysically disadvantaged people sing, dance, spit fire and party to demonstrate that they are in control and to avoid being stereotyped as victims. Is using their disabilities in this way simply a form of exploitation?
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