PITTSBURGH -- Filmmaker Michael Moore is taking aim at the titans of Wall Street, debuting his latest film in Pittsburgh.
Moore's films have skewered General Motors, former President George W. Bush and the health care industry.
His new movie, "
Capitalism: A Love Story" debuted in Pittsburgh on Monday night, after Moore himself led a march from the AFL-CIO convention at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to the Byham Theater.
WTAE Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin spoke one-on-one with the controversial filmmaker. She said the event was billed as a press conference for Moore's newest film, but it was more like a rally with an audience of nursing organizations and the AFL-CIO union faithful.
"The fight in front of us isn't going to be easy. The richest 1 percent of us have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined," Moore said.
"Capitalism: A Love Story" is Moore's examination of the recent economic crash and what he said he believes is the 30-year journey that caused it.
While it wasn't a rebellion, the crowd from inside the convention center spilled out onto Penn Avenue and marched to the Byham to see the film and to call for universal health care.
The marchers didn't have a permit to occupy all of Penn Avenue, and police arrived to herd Moore and company back onto the sidewalk as they rounded the corner toward the Byham, Wiggin reported.
"Somehow, people got so fired up, that every Pennsylvanian can have health care turned into a march and turned into a rally," said Leslie Curtis, a marcher.
Inside, Moore told Wiggin that he thought this was his most ambitious work ever.
"I have put every bit of my heart and soul into this movie," Moore said. "It is a culmination of 20 years of making movies and this is the big one."
It's a premier that could have been in the big cities of New York or Los Angeles.
"We decided to have it here in the center of the working class Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania," Moore said.
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