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Staunch Moderates Experience: Short Film

Welcome to the Staunch Moderates Experience, a story which takes us through the history & achievements of the Staunch Moderates movement through music. This film presents a unique experience with it's multi-genre compilation of music videos from the three albums released by the movement.

  • Gregory T Simmons
    Director
    Mission Peace
  • Gregory T Simmons
    Writer
    Mission Peace
  • Jordan K Yospe
    Producer
  • Gregory T Simmons
    Producer
  • Clemmie Garard
    Key Cast
    "Casanova Ace"
  • Gregory T Simmons
    Key Cast
  • Steven Huntsman
    Key Cast
  • Bo Persiko
    Key Cast
  • Mamie Van Doren
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    39 minutes 44 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2024
  • 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

To answer the question: “What is the reason I made the Staunch Moderates Documentary?” one must ask first why did I found the Staunch Moderates Intellectual Movement? The reason I started the Movement is that I was with friends talking politics during a happy hour in early 2019. We were making fun of extremism. One of us said, “I know, why don’t we start a new political party, Staunch Moderates?” It got a laugh but then fell into an interesting conversation and then many more interesting conversations with different groups throughout the rest of the year. Evidently it was not only me that was sick and tired of everyone attacking each other all the time!

On December 4th, 2019, I called my attorney and filed for the Staunch Moderates Collective Membership Trademark. We then rolled up our sleeves and got to work: we built our website, wrote a platform, manifesto, philosophy, mission statement, and more. With the primaries approaching, we decided that it would make sense to campaign for our Movement’s brand and philosophy of peace through moderation at the primaries through our targeted ads and vital societal issue forums. Having a background in media and entertainment, it made sense to me to make a documentary film to log our journey, and here it is. The shooting of the film started February 11 during our trifecta launch in the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire’s primary: 1) the beginning recording of our documentary film, 2) the launch of our website and 3) the beginning of our campaigning at the primaries. The Staunch Moderates documentary tells the story of our adventure through our freshman year as a Movement and our reporting on the 2020 election year.