Premiere Date: July 1, 2008
Synopsis
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, Election Day combines 11 stories — shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight — into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined on one fateful day to make their votes count. A co-production of Independent Television Service (ITVS).
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Filmmaker
We set out to depict portraits of real people who make our democracy work, whose actions are not the kind of thing that would make the evening news.”
— Katy Chevigny, Filmmaker
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July 1, 2008
Critical Acclaim
Chevigny's well-established verité style reveals the profound stake that citizens across the country have in the voting process.”
&mdash Pat Aufderheide, In These Times
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