Kevin Booth

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Kevin Booth
Born	October, 1961

Kevin Booth is an American director. He is best known for his work with comedian Bill Hicks, who was the subject of his book Agent of Evolution.

Founder of Sacred Cow Productions[1] in 1986, Kevin has been producing & directing since 1984. His Web site featured the largest online archive of Bill Hicks videos until 2005, when Booth removed the collection indefinitely because of bandwidth limitations. Music videos he directed include Year Zero's Roys in Orbit and Sad to Say, as well as his own I Can't Let Her Go.

[edit] Production career

While Hicks spent his years performing on stage and on camera, Booth focused on recording audio, filming video and producing the two. Most of his early material included or featured Hicks. In 1992, he produced his comedy album Relentless.

After Hicks' death in 1994, Booth produced Arizona Bay and Rant in E-Minor released in 1997--two innovative comedy albums by Hicks featuring music and special effects. Hicks, who died of pancreatic cancer, left detailed instructions for Booth to synchronize every second according to Hicks' preference.

In 2000, on a challenge from British Channel 4 reporter Jon Ronson, Booth sneaked into Bohemian Grove, an elitist resort in California, with Alex Jones, a Texas AM radio personality. The events have been chronicled in Ronson's "Secret Rulers of the World" and Jones' movies, "Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove," and "Order Out of Chaos." Booth worked with Jones on many other projects through Sacred Cow and as part of the staff on InfoWars and PrisonPlanet.

In 2004, Booth released with Jones "American Dictators," a documentary film centering on the opinions of Jones and people interviewed, including Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Geog.). The summary of the film is the 2004 presidential election is fixed, a claim based primarily on President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) being "kissing cousins" of the fraternity "Skull and Bones."

In fall 2004, Booth and Jones travel to New York City to film the city during the 2004 Republican National Convention, interviewing several diverse voices including the Communist Youth Brigade, Bush supporters, police officers, BBC reporter Greg Palast and John Buchanan, a journalist who reported the de-classified Congressional record proving the link between the Bush family fortune and Fritz Thyssen, a German industrialist better known as "Hitler's Angel" for initially financing the Nazi war machine.[2] The footage became the subject of Booth's second film with Jones, titled "Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State." One of Jones' exclusive interviews includes David Gergen, a former presidential adviser, who is asked about his knowledge of the Bohemian Grove. As Jones refuses to change the topic of his questions, Gergen responds: "That's none of your damn business."[3]

Most recently Kevin has been promoting his first solo documentary film, The Last White Hope. Booth describes it as a way to explain the drug war from the perspective of those who live it, including law enforcement, politicians, drug dealers, jailed celebrities and analysts. Originally intended to feature Jones' commentary, Booth spent three years compiling 11 hours worth of footage for a TV series, but decided a two hour film would work best. When aired at the Evil City film festival in New York City, it won best documentary film for 2006. It won the same award at the DIY film festival in Hollywood, California.