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Staunch Moderates Experience Live, Virtual Concert

Welcome to the Staunch Moderates Experience Live, Virtual concert. An entertaining live performance which takes us through the philosophy & history of the Staunch Moderates movement through music. This film presents a unique experience with its multi-genre compilation of music videos from the three albums & more released by the movement. Performed by Rapper Greg Simmons AKA "DJ Staunch", Rappers Kyle Knight & Casanova Ace, with Staunchette dancer Pearrie Hammie.

  • Gregory T Simmons
    Director
    Mission Peace & Staunch Moderates Experience: Concert Music Video & Story
  • Gregory T Simmons
    Writer
  • Clemmie Garard
    Writer
  • Gregory T Simmons
    Producer
  • Jordan K Yospe
    Producer
  • Rob Rohrbach
    Producer
  • Henry Eshelman
    Producer
  • Jason Spiewak
    Producer
  • Meshach Lewis
    Producer
  • Gregory T Simmons
    Key Cast
    "DJ Staunch"
  • Gregory T Simmons
    Key Cast
    "Rapper GTS"
  • Kyle Knight
    Key Cast
    "Rapper Kyle Knight"
  • Clemmie Garard
    Key Cast
    "Rapper Casanova Ace"
  • Skulgan Phiphobmongkul
    Key Cast
    "Staunchette (Pearrie Hammie)"
  • Deneen Melody Mccracken
    Key Cast
    "Staunchette"
  • Mamie Van Doren
    Key Cast
  • Stephan H Huntsman
    Key Cast
    "Sports Announcer & Yogi"
  • Darrelle Owens
    Key Cast
    "Rapper Shorty Mack"
  • Project Type:
    Feature, Music Video
  • Genres:
    Live Performance, Music Video, Philosophical, History
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 5 minutes 34 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 26, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Gregory T Simmons

Greg Simmons brings an entrepreneurial perspective to the Staunch Moderates Movement. He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area where he learned much from his father’s entrepreneurial successes, Greg earned a business degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder. While in school at Boulder, Greg was inspired to make a career in real estate development. He successfully built a portfolio of properties in Boulder, Vail, and Aspen, and also participated in developing and building restaurants and other projects in California.

Greg’s other work on theatrical productions in college inspired him to become a patron of the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival which took place for a decade in Aspen during the turn of the century. Eventually he shifted from real estate development to the entertainment industry all together, developing A$PEN THE SERIES®, a sitcom takeoff on the reality TV genre, along with its companion show within the show Sneak-a-Peak. The process of going through the creative and marketing efforts of A$PEN THE SERIES® for almost two decades lead Greg to the founding of the Staunch Moderates, as its producer, promoter and one of its philosophers. Given the political incorrectness of his A$PEN THE SERIES® and the many considerations involved in developing, financing, producing and distributing a television show both domestically and internationally, it’s from this experience that gave Greg the mindset to birth the Staunch Moderates Movement.

Greg has a grown daughter and his passion takes him to many parts of the world, where he has gained an appreciation of working with differences.

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Director Statement

What is the reason we made the Staunch Moderates Experience Live, Virtual
Concert?
I’m going to tell you.
In early 2024 our multi-genre hip-hop band “DJ Staunch & the Bigfoots” was
rehearsing to do a fall university campus tour including some major campuses:
CU Boulder, USC, ASU, Missouri, and others. Sadly, the tour got cancelled due
to the chilling effect of the Israel/Palestine campus protests taking place at
colleges and universities  across the nation.  The promoter of our concert tour
and the partnered campuses were both terrified to exacerbate those campus
protests with large on-campus gatherings in a fraught political climate.  We’d
been rehearsing every day for five months, so when the rug got pulled out from
under us and our tour got cancelled, having the know-how in filmmaking, we
decided we’d re-imagine our visual album The Staunch Moderates Experience as
a virtual concert film rather than a live concert.  
To me as the film’s director and as the co-founder and CEO of the Staunch
Moderates Movement, I’ve always pitched our Intellectual Movement as a
“current-day Hamilton.” Also, from being in the showbiz space for a quarter of a
century now, I’ve always loved dance and have wanted to do a production with
dance reminisce of the, In Living Color’s “Fly Girls.”  Wow, were they terrific?!
This film is my expression of all the above and represents the best of what has
come out of our Intellectual Movement and our multi-genre hip-hop band,
including all-original music. The Staunch Moderates Experience Live, Virtual Concert
brings our visual album and our Movement to life in an entertaining, energetic,
immediate way—advocating fervently for our highest ideal: world peace. We
hope you enjoy it.