Moore’s Slacker Uprising Will be Free

At last year’s Toronto International Film Festival Michael Moore showed off his latest, Captain Mike Across America, a film which follows Moore on his 2004 62-city tour of college campuses as he encouraged young voters to elect John Kerry president.

The film has now been titled to Slacker Uprising and Moore will be releasing it online, for free. You’ll be able to download it in North America for three weeks beginning September 23.

Although the film appeared in Toronto under the Weinstein Co. banner, it now bears the logo of Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films, which is joining with Blip.tv to release it online. The Weinstein Co. returned the domestic rights to Moore but retains foreign rights in the film.

According to Moore, the documentary cost about $2 million, but neither he nor Brave will profit from the release, which will be promoted at the website slackeruprising.com. A DVD will be released October 7.