Alex Holder is a British

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, founder and managing director of AJH Films.

Life and career

Before '' Unprecedented'' Holder describes himself as a previously “pretty unknown quantity”, but he was a producer on the 2016

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film '' Keep Quiet''. It is a 2016 documentary about an anti-Semitic politician (

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, a co-founder of the far-right Hungarian political party ''

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'') who finds out he’s Jewish. His works also include ''Bad Boy Chiller Crew'', a 2021 series about Bad Boy Chiller Crew, an English bassline collective from

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''Unprecedented''

Holder spent two years working on a documentary film about Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and the aftermath. The film premiered on July 10, 2022, on

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. The three-part series features interviews with the former president; his children Ivanka,

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, and Don Jr.;

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and former Vice President

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; as well as footage shot at the Capitol on

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. The filmmakers have stated that the delay of the film's release was not intentional, but due to the needs of production. According to Holder, the Trump’s didn’t have editorial control over the documentary. Holder was

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ed by the Jan 6 Committee to hand over raw footage he possessed from filming ''Unprecedented'', in the final months of 2020 and early 2021. The Jan 6 Committee were specifically interested in "raw footage taken on 6th January 2021; raw footage of interviews with President Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Jared Kushner; and Vice President Mike Pence; raw footage pertaining to discussions of election fraud or election integrity surrounding the November 2020 presidential election". Holder captured Ivanka Trump on camera, contradicting herself (and thus lying to documentary cameras or a Senate committee under oath). In December 2020, days after

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William P. Barr's announcement, Ivanka publicly supported Donald Trump's fight to overturn the election results. In her testimony, however, she agreed with Barr's claim that the election was legitimate. Holder captured a moment when Mike Pence read an email confirming that his letter rejecting

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's attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment had been sent. While the documentary suggested Pence was reacting to a House resolution urging him to remove Trump, his spokesman disputed this characterization, clarifying that Pence was merely acknowledging his own letter. Holder testified in a closed-door deposition before the Committee on 23 June 2022. Holder has been accused of being a British or US spy and got a security detail, appeared on

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and

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. He has been ordered to give evidence to an investigation in

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, too, which is looking at whether Trump pressured state officials to influence the 2020 election in the state. Some of "the most intriguing material associated with ''Unprecedented''" didn’t make it into the film, however it was included in the January 6 committee's request for footage.

Ongoing projects

His next documentary is on the

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. Among those who will take part in the film are

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, and

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Filmography

Awards

References

External links

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