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David Bossie, president of Citizens United, will premiere his documentary "Hype: The Obama Effect" at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

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    By Christian Toto

    The conservative group Citizens United will greet Democrats arriving for their convention this week in Denver with a new documentary skewering the party's presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.

    "Hype: The Obama Effect," the group's latest film polemic, charges the senator is neither the unifier he claims to be, nor the political moderate who can rally the masses.

    But what impact, if any, can a partisan feature have, especially at a time when any documentary not directed by Michael Moore struggles to gain a wide audience?

    This wasn't the documentary David Bossie, president of Citizens United, expected to debut before the convention. His team spent 18 months creating "Hillary - The Movie" for the occasion.

    "Her campaign had a limited shelf-life," Mr. Bossie said with a chuckle.

    "Hype," which debuts Sunday, will also be screened during the Republican convention in Minneapolis next week. After that, it will play in theaters during September and October, according to Mr. Bossie.

    The film questions the senator's stance on key issues like abortion and challenges his ability to reach across the aisle in Congress. "Hype" also ridicules the mainstream media for what it claims is preferential treatment given to the first black presidential nominee.

    "We try to dispel the myth that is Barack Obama," he said.

    Mr. Bossie, a self-described "accidental filmmaker" who started producing documentaries in the wake of Mr. Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," said his company has gotten smarter and leaner over its short history. Its previous films include "ACLU: At War with America" and "Broken Promises: The U.N. at 60."

    He said Citizens United Productions can now stretch the budgets of its films, which hover around $500,000, further than before to produce more polished documentaries. And while the company often distributes its own films on DVD, its illegal-immigration feature, "Border War," was picked up by Genius Products, a video company owned by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

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