REACT to FILM hosts free campus screenings across U.S.
REACT to FILM, a nonprofit organization dedicated to “leveraging the best documentary filmmaking to promote social responsibility and spark civic engagement,” is partnering with the ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION team to sponsor screenings and discussions on college campuses across the U.S. Upcoming screenings are planned at UC Berkeley, Stanford, NYU, Fordham, Tufts, Princeton, Texas State University, University of Arizona, Hendrix College, Ohio University, and dozens of other campuses. For full details or to RSVP, visit http://www.facebook.com/REACTtoFILM/events. To learn more about REACT to FILM or to test your knowledge on voting issues, visit http://reacttofilm.com.
NY Times Praises “Electoral Dysfunction”
“‘Electoral Dysfunction’ lives up to its title,” declares The New York Times.
NYT film critic David DeWitt offers this assessment:
For a film that takes on a serious concern of United States democracy — voting and the effective, if not always overt, encouragement and discouragement of that act as practiced across the nation — “Electoral Dysfunction” pulls off an admirable trick: It’s pleasant. It treats Democrats and Republicans respectfully, and its humor, with the comic Mo Rocca as guide, is closer to Garrison Keillor than to Michael Moore.
This lighthearted, colorful, nonpartisan documentary spends most of its time in the Indiana of 2008, following get-out-the-vote efforts there by both major parties. These scenes are the film’s most appealing, with person-to-person, neighbor-to-neighbor examples of principled grass-roots campaigning.
“Electoral Dysfunction” lives up to its title, exploring problems of nationwide accessibility and fairness — voter ID gets a workout — as well as the dated oddities of the Electoral College….
Read the full review here: http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/movies/electoral-dysfunction-with-mo-rocca.html?ref=movies
Official Selection
Official Selection, Montreal World Film Festival
PBS Broadcast Premiere
ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION will be broadcast on PBS stations across the country in late October. Check local listings, or check back at this site for details on local broadcast times.
The Right to Vote – NY Times Op-Doc
Watch the first of our four New York Times Op-Docs:
The Right to Vote
