Knock Down the House is a rousing documentary about the future of our country, guided by the emboldened voices of four progressive female congressional candidates in the 2018 primary. Chief among them is beacon-of-hope Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (aka Aoc), who tells us, “For every 10 rejections you get one acceptance. And that’s how you win everything.” Her words resonate especially when the other three candidates—Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin, each worthy of coverage in their own right—lose out to the old guard. Producers Sarah Olson, Robin Blotnic, and producer/director Rachel Lears achieve a mix of optimism and heartbreak by juxtaposing three unsuccessful campaigns with Aoc’s DC-shaking victory.…...
- 5/2/2019
- by Dylan Kai Dempsey
- IONCINEMA.com
When it comes to recent politically-charged moments getting the documentary treatment, they can often feel like rush jobs, but that wasn’t the case when Rachel Lears premiered Knock Down the House at Sundance this year and walked away with the top audience favorite prize.
Following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin as they fought the powers at be to make history, Netflix quickly snatched up the film and it’ll now hit theaters and their platform next week. Ahead of the debut, the first trailer has also arrived.
Jake Howell said in our review, “Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House is a fun, emotionally powerful, inspiring look at the incredible wave of would-be politicians that sought, in 2018, to challenge status quo Democrats and enact meaningful change—all while refusing money from Wall Street fat cats and big business super PACs.”
See the trailer and poster below.
Following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin as they fought the powers at be to make history, Netflix quickly snatched up the film and it’ll now hit theaters and their platform next week. Ahead of the debut, the first trailer has also arrived.
Jake Howell said in our review, “Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House is a fun, emotionally powerful, inspiring look at the incredible wave of would-be politicians that sought, in 2018, to challenge status quo Democrats and enact meaningful change—all while refusing money from Wall Street fat cats and big business super PACs.”
See the trailer and poster below.
- 4/22/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
March 1
– Now in its fourth year, the Doc10 film festival is proud to announce their official 2019 film slate. Presented by Chicago Media Project, Doc10 will open with the critically acclaimed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez documentary “Knock Down the House” and close with Emmy Award-winning director John Chester’s “The Biggest Little Farm.” In celebration of the highly curated event, filmmakers from this year’s ten best documentaries will be descending on Chicago for screenings and Q&A’s. Doc10 will also showcase Vr content, industry panels, and creative workshops, and takes place from April 11 – 14, 2019 in Chicago, Il.
Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Knock Down the House” follows progressive activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other insurgent female candidates running for Congress in 2018. Setting their sights on making a difference, the film chronicles these women as they fight for the issues they are most passionate about and shake...
– Now in its fourth year, the Doc10 film festival is proud to announce their official 2019 film slate. Presented by Chicago Media Project, Doc10 will open with the critically acclaimed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez documentary “Knock Down the House” and close with Emmy Award-winning director John Chester’s “The Biggest Little Farm.” In celebration of the highly curated event, filmmakers from this year’s ten best documentaries will be descending on Chicago for screenings and Q&A’s. Doc10 will also showcase Vr content, industry panels, and creative workshops, and takes place from April 11 – 14, 2019 in Chicago, Il.
Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Knock Down the House” follows progressive activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other insurgent female candidates running for Congress in 2018. Setting their sights on making a difference, the film chronicles these women as they fight for the issues they are most passionate about and shake...
- 3/1/2019
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Netflix announced on Thursday that it has finalized a deal to acquire worldwide distribution rights to the award-winning documentary, “Knock Down the House,” which features Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The documentary received a standing ovation following its premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and was given by the Sundance Institute the Festival Favorite Award selected by audience votes from the 121 features screened at the festival.
When tragedy struck her family in the midst of the financial crisis, Bronx-born Ocasio-Cortez had to work double shifts in a restaurant to save her home from foreclosure. After losing a loved one to a preventable medical condition, Amy Vilela didn’t know what to do with the anger she felt about America’s broken health care system. Cori Bush was drawn into the streets when the police shooting of an unarmed black man brought protests and tanks into her neighborhood. Paula Jean Swearengin was fed...
The documentary received a standing ovation following its premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and was given by the Sundance Institute the Festival Favorite Award selected by audience votes from the 121 features screened at the festival.
When tragedy struck her family in the midst of the financial crisis, Bronx-born Ocasio-Cortez had to work double shifts in a restaurant to save her home from foreclosure. After losing a loved one to a preventable medical condition, Amy Vilela didn’t know what to do with the anger she felt about America’s broken health care system. Cori Bush was drawn into the streets when the police shooting of an unarmed black man brought protests and tanks into her neighborhood. Paula Jean Swearengin was fed...
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster and Trey Williams
- The Wrap
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be a little busy tonight, but she might be celebrating this news ahead of the State of the Union address. Knock Down the House, the documentary that followed her run for Congress last year along will three other first-time female candidates, has won the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance.
The pic beat out 120 others features that screened at the fest, which wrapped Sunday. Runners-up for the prize included Ask Dr. Ruth, The Biggest Little Farm, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and Blinded by the Light.
Directed by Rachel Lears and produced by Lears, Sarah Olson and Robin Blotnick, Knock Down the House had its world premiere at the Park City festival. It follows four female political candidates from around the country – a young bartender in the Bronx (aka Aoc), a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse...
The pic beat out 120 others features that screened at the fest, which wrapped Sunday. Runners-up for the prize included Ask Dr. Ruth, The Biggest Little Farm, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and Blinded by the Light.
Directed by Rachel Lears and produced by Lears, Sarah Olson and Robin Blotnick, Knock Down the House had its world premiere at the Park City festival. It follows four female political candidates from around the country – a young bartender in the Bronx (aka Aoc), a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse...
- 2/5/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Before we unveil our favorites of Sundance Film Festival 2019, the juries and audiences have selected their 28 feature filmmaking picks from 121 total films. This year’s jurors featured Desiree Akhavan, Damien Chazelle, Dennis Lim, Phyllis Nagy, Tessa Thompson, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Yance Ford, Rachel Grady, Jeff Orlowski, Alissa Wilkinson, Jane Campion, Charles Gillibert, Ciro Guerra, Maite Alberdi, Nico Marzano, Véréna Paravel, Young Jean Lee, Carter Smith, Sheila Vand, and Laurie Anderson.
Topped by the harrowing documentary One Child Nation, the prison drama Clemency, Joanna Hogg’s astounding The Souvenir, and the beautiful Honeyland, see the winners below and our complete coverage here.
2019 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Rachel Grady to: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, for One Child Nation / China, U.S.A. — After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations...
Topped by the harrowing documentary One Child Nation, the prison drama Clemency, Joanna Hogg’s astounding The Souvenir, and the beautiful Honeyland, see the winners below and our complete coverage here.
2019 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Rachel Grady to: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, for One Child Nation / China, U.S.A. — After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations...
- 2/3/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Netflix is about to get on the board in a big way at the Sundance Film Festival, near a deal on one of the buzziest documentaries to play Park City. Netflix is closing on Knock Down the House, the Rachel Lears-directed film that followed the campaigns of four progressive women who ran against incumbents in the elections last fall, shaking up the status quo and bringing fresh blood into Congress.
One of the main figures in the film is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who ran as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and was elected to New York’s 14th District and became at age 29 the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress. Ocasio-Cortez was expected to come to Sundance, but had to cancel the trip because of the turbulence of the government shutdown which was just coming to an end.
The other progressive challengers whose...
One of the main figures in the film is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who ran as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and was elected to New York’s 14th District and became at age 29 the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress. Ocasio-Cortez was expected to come to Sundance, but had to cancel the trip because of the turbulence of the government shutdown which was just coming to an end.
The other progressive challengers whose...
- 1/31/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is circling Knock Down the House, the Sundance documentary that tracked four women running for Congress in 2018, including now-Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York).
The feature follows Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin as they join a movement of insurgent candidates trying to topple incumbents in an electric primary race for Congress. (Ocasio-Cortez won her race and has since become an outspoken voice among the young Democrats in Congress.)
Rachel Lears directed the film and produced with Sarah Olson and Robin Blotnick.
Fellow streamers Apple and Amazon also showed interest in Knock Down the House, which ...
The feature follows Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin as they join a movement of insurgent candidates trying to topple incumbents in an electric primary race for Congress. (Ocasio-Cortez won her race and has since become an outspoken voice among the young Democrats in Congress.)
Rachel Lears directed the film and produced with Sarah Olson and Robin Blotnick.
Fellow streamers Apple and Amazon also showed interest in Knock Down the House, which ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix is circling Knock Down the House, the Sundance documentary that tracked four women running for Congress in 2018, including now-Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York).
The feature follows Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin as they join a movement of insurgent candidates trying to topple incumbents in an electric primary race for Congress. (Ocasio-Cortez won her race and has since become an outspoken voice among the young Democrats in Congress.)
Rachel Lears directed the film and produced with Sarah Olson and Robin Blotnick.
Fellow streamers Apple and Amazon also showed interest in Knock Down the House, which ...
The feature follows Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin as they join a movement of insurgent candidates trying to topple incumbents in an electric primary race for Congress. (Ocasio-Cortez won her race and has since become an outspoken voice among the young Democrats in Congress.)
Rachel Lears directed the film and produced with Sarah Olson and Robin Blotnick.
Fellow streamers Apple and Amazon also showed interest in Knock Down the House, which ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Tribeca Film Institute, Gucci and the Oath Foundation today announced the 2018 grant recipients for the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund.
Six feature-length films that explore social issues, especially those affecting women and girls, will receive a total of $150,000.
The program, funded by Gucci with additional support from Oath Foundation, provides production and finishing finances, along with year-round support and guidance from Tfi.
In a decade of operation, the fund has supported 85 films, providing more than $1.4 million in grants. This year, the supported projects spotlight a range of diverse issues including: the resolve of three female political candidates who are challenging powerful incumbents in Congress; the U.S. opioid crisis; the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; an unlikely alliance formed during a religious war; and the story of three women officers who are fighting to transform and restore a community’s trust in the police department.
The grantees were...
Six feature-length films that explore social issues, especially those affecting women and girls, will receive a total of $150,000.
The program, funded by Gucci with additional support from Oath Foundation, provides production and finishing finances, along with year-round support and guidance from Tfi.
In a decade of operation, the fund has supported 85 films, providing more than $1.4 million in grants. This year, the supported projects spotlight a range of diverse issues including: the resolve of three female political candidates who are challenging powerful incumbents in Congress; the U.S. opioid crisis; the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; an unlikely alliance formed during a religious war; and the story of three women officers who are fighting to transform and restore a community’s trust in the police department.
The grantees were...
- 11/12/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In a deal that is closing right before the conclusion of the Sundance Film Festival, Radius-twc is acquiring worldwide distribution rights to Fed Up, the Katie Couric-narrated documentary about the alarming and rising rate of obese children in America. Several distributors chased the film, because of its hot button topic that is similar to the embraceable issue examined in Bully. I’ve heard the deal was near $2 million. Fed Up was directed by Stephanie Soechtig, and produced by Sarah Olson and Eve Marson. Along with narrating, Couric is exec producer with Laurie David, Regina Scully, Heather Reisman, and Atlas Films’ Michael Walrath and Michelle Walrath. Deal was negotiated by Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers. Beyond chronicling the futile efforts of several young people to shed weight, including a 250-pound 15-year old boy and a 212-pound 12-year old girl, the film reveals a 30-year campaign by the food industry,...
- 1/26/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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