All In: The Fight for Democracy

Lisa Cortés, Liz Garbus
Part of

58th New York Film Festival

September 17 - October 11, 2020

Candid interviews with the Democratic Party’s rising star Stacey Abrams anchor this invigorating and rigorous primer on the history of voter suppression in the United States. It’s a film of clarifying urgency, especially in an election year in which the very process of voting has come under threat from those determined to stay in power.

DIRECTOR
Lisa Cortés, Liz Garbus
YEAR
2020
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
102 minutes
START DATE
September 18, 2020

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Featuring a post-screening conversation between Whoopi Goldberg and Stacey Abrams and a Q&A with directors Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés. Watch here.

After watching the film, learn how to get involved here and here.

All In: The Fight for Democracy is an invigorating and rigorous primer on the history of voter suppression in the United States, an insidious and still persistent reality in our nation. Academy Award–nominees Lisa Cortés (The Apollo) and Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone) take us from the early attempts at the political disenfranchisement of Black Americans via poll taxes and “literacy tests,” to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the 2013 Supreme Court ruling that weakened that landmark case and allowed for the return of rampant state discrimination. Anchored by candid interviews with the Democratic Party’s rising star Stacey Abrams, All In is clarifying and urgent, especially in an election year in which the very process of voting has come under threat from those determined to stay in power. An Amazon Studios release. 

Watch the Q&A below.

 

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