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Pick of the Day: “Surge”
One of the few good things to come out of the 2016 election was the subsequent onslaught of women running for office, organizing political campaigns, and participating in grassroots activism —...
Trailer Watch: A Political Outsider Challenges the Democratic Party in “How to Fix a Primary”
In 2018, Abdul El-Sayed set out to be the Democratic candidate in Michigan’s gubernatorial race. As a young Muslim man and a political outsider — he is a doctor who ran Detroit’s...
Hannah Rosenzweig & Wendy Sachs on “Surge” & Why We Should Tell (Many) Stories About Women in Politics
Hannah Rosenzweig is a documentary film director and long-time producer. She is the founder and president of Intention Media Inc. Since serving as Hillary Clinton’s personal videographer for...
Trailer Watch: Three Women Set Their Sights on Political Office in Hillary Bachelder’s “Represent”
Myya Jones, Bryn Bird, and Julie Cho each run for office and — in one way or another — take on politics’ boys’ club in “Represent.” A trailer for Hillary...
Trailer Watch: A Journalist Follows the “Dark Money” in Kimberly Reed’s New Doc
“You know, the number one rule of political or watchdog reporting is, ‘follow the money,'” journalist John Adams says in the trailer for “Dark Money.” The reporter, who...