Patrick Dollard is an American documentary filmmaker. In the 1990s he was a Hollywood talent agent, manager, and producer most known for guiding the career of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh.
Dollard became known as a Hollywood conservative in the mid-1990s, and is now known as a conservative filmmaker, blogger, and pundit.
His work has been discussed in U.S. News and World Report, Variety, The Huffington Post, The New York Times,[1] Fox News,[2] The Washington Times, and Vanity Fair,[3] and by Rush Limbaugh. The Vanity Fair piece also detailed Dollard's alleged fight to overcome alcoholism and drug abuse. Dollard and footage from his Iraq documentary, Young Americans, are featured in a new French documentary for Canal Plus called Hollywood and Politics, directed by David Carr Brown.
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While still running a management company, representing Soderbergh and helping to service Soderbergh and George Clooney's production company at Warner Brothers' (Section 8 Films), in 2004 Dollard decided to do a side project for a few weeks in the three worst combat zones in Iraq: Fallujah, The Triangle of Death, and Ramadi. The project began as a 2-4 week quickie documentary, but eventually grew to include a 7-month stay in Iraq with a Marine unit and over 200 hours of footage. The resulting documentary, Young Americans, has been released in segments on the Internet and clips have been shown on television.
Dollard has argued that there were more important reasons for the Iraq war other than Weapons of Mass Destruction. He believes that "The root causes of terrorism are the lack of capitalism, the lack of democracy, and the lack of modern education."[4] Dollard contends that the Iraq war has successfully removed some of the barriers to these in the Middle East.
Dollard also describes the ideological conflict between the left and right in the United States as "a gunless and bloodless civil war".[5]
Dollard maintains a web-only radio show called "The Jihadi Killer Hour"[2], at Blog Talk Radio. His guests have included Mark Ebner, author of "Hollywood, Interrupted", Matt Drudge's partner Andrew Breitbart, founder of websites Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood; "Media Malpractice: How Obama Won The Election" director John Ziegler; Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer; independent war correspondent Michael Yon; conservative author, pundit and former "Politically Incorrect" staff writer Evan Sayet; "Brothers At War" director Jake Rademacher; African-American comedian Zo; Harlem Pastor James Manning, and conservative comedian Steven Crowder.
Dollard also started a grassroots political organization named the American Constitution and Capitalism Defense Front ACCDF which is otherwise known as Active.