THE CU CHI TUNNELS (with subtitles as told by America's former enemy)

I'VE BEEN LIVING IN TOTAL POVERTY FOR SEVERAL YEARS. EVEN $5 WOULD HELP ME.... WWW,PAYPAL.ME/MickeyGrant. www.paypal.me/MickeyGrant if you'd like to help this injured antique director. I have a 35mm version of my film which is 94 minutes long. I would like to have at least one more theatrical showing of my film before I die, I'm 72, and in very bad health. Also, before that happens, I'd like to some how do a 6 to 8K widescreen transfer from the 35mm print of the film and donate it to the William Jones Archival Collection at SMU. Jones was one of my teachers back in the 70's at SMU. Today, it seems no one at my old University, SMU in Dallas, Texas, seems to have no idea of who I am or anything about my films. I wish I'd been a little bit better of a filmmaker but I have to say, I really tried very hard. Mickey Grant I've been living in poverty and I'm the guy who made this film. I've got to try to make some money. I got injured in Libya making a film (https://vimeo.com/24609286), called BURNING GREEN, and it's been hell the last 6 years. I spent over 5 years making this film, THE CU CHI TUNNELS and I rebuilt the tunnels on a stage in Saigon. AND, YES, THOSE RECREATIONS ARE NOT FOR SALE! Some people have commented about the translation. Initially, I had a word by word translation until the BBC taught me that I have to just create the jest of it and make it flow so it's easier to read. That made it much easier to follow. My film has been broadcast in over 50 countries and distributed by the BBC but it never showed in the US. I can explain that to you if you ask me. I put it for free on Youtube about 4 years ago as so many universities wanted to use it as a required viewing of the other side of the war in their Vietnam War classes. Oh, I forgot to mention, when I first came up with this idea, nearly everyone thought I was totally crazy...I mean clinically. I actually had lawyers physically throw me angrily out of their office when I appeared in their office asking for help representing this project. Another goal of mine is simple. I want to show the 94 minute 35mm version of it at the Texas Theater in Oak Cliff, a part of Dallas, Texas. I grew up there and was in the 9th grade when Kennedy was killed. Oswald was arrested in that theater shortly after Kennedy was killed. It's an important place to me. I believe the film would thrive on a big screen there. Here's their information if you'd contact them and say you agree: (214) 948.1546 [email protected] ALSO, I want to point out the BBC philosophy on subtitles. My 94 minute 35mm. version of the film has an exact translation from Vietnamese. For TV, you have to make a readable translation that can be read at the pace of the video. So, word by word, the translation is slightly different. A film by Mickey Grant, director of BURNING GREEN, THE STORY OF THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION. I'm putting the video, again for free on Youtube but would really appreciate it if you went to the Video on demand page on Vimeo that I listed above or try to send me any kind of donation at www.paypal.me/MickeyGrant anything would help right now. If I got a few cents from all the viewers so far (nearly 900,000), I'd be able to live a little better at 71 with no retirement partly because I made films that no one else wanted to make or could realize their importance. I put the film back on line because it's being used all over the world in universities which I really appreciate. I want it to still be seen by future generations... but, I'm in a lot of trouble with all my medical issues. Thanks, Mickey Grant