An online campaign to help fund a documentary about the limits to free expression is under way lead by Sacramento journalist Ed Fletcher.
Using the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, Fletcher and his team are trying to raise $10,000 by March 22. Through March 4, the month-long campaign was at 30 percent of goal.
The feature-length documentary will use the colorful 1969 trial over “bottomless” dancing at Orangevale’s Pink Pussy Kat to help to tell a broader story about the limits of free expression then and now.
The impactful Sacramento trial went national when Judge Earl Warren Jr. decided to take the jury to the club see the dancers “do the dance.” The case helped write the rules for exotic dance in California.
“We are excited to be bringing this forward at a time women’s rights and civil liberties are in the public conversation,” said Fletcher, a longtime reporter at The Sacramento Bee.
Directing the project is DQ Hayes, an emerging filmmaker and former musician from the band Shakedown.
The team kickoff the project with a fundraising party on Feb. 21 in Sacramento.
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