Election Day

Election Day

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What is voters’ street-level experience in today’s America? A triumph in documentary storytelling, Election Day combines eleven stories all shot simul- taneously 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 Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined to make their votes count on one fateful day.

  • Year:
    2007
  • Runtime:
    84 min.
  • Country:
    USA
  • Director:
    Katy Chevigny
  • Screenplay:
    Katy Chevigny
  • Dir. of Photography:
    Robert Reed Altman, Rick Butler, Rob Featherstone, Melissa Godoy, Alan Jacobsen, Kirsten Johnson, John C. Kelleran, Dana Kupper, Vic Losick, Ben Shapiro, Jonathan Skurnik, Melba Williams, Matthew Woolf, Juan Carlos Zaldívar
  • Music:
    John Kimbrough
  • Editor:
    Penelope Falk
  • Production:
    Big Mouth Productions
  • Sales:
    Big Mouth Productions
  • Festivals:
    SXSW 2007, Rhode Island 2007, Camden 2007

Schedule:

12.11.2016 18:30 Kino Lumière (K4)

About the Director:

Katy Chevigny

Katy Chevigny is an award–winning filmmaker who runs Arts Engine, a non– profit media organization, and its production arm, Big Mouth Films, in New York. Her credits include Deadline, a critically–acclaimed investigation into Illinois Governor George Ryan’s commuting of death sentences, which she co–directed with Kirsten Johnson. She also directed the feature–length Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today. Chevigny has also produced several award–winning documentaries. Through her work at Arts Engine, Chevigny oversees MediaRights.org and the Media That Matters Film Festival.