Back in early 2017 filmmaker Rachel Lears came up with an idea for a documentary that wound up changing her life. “Rachel was looking for a subject to follow right after the 2016 presidential elect…
, which Lears directed and Blotnick produced and edited. At that point in 2017 the political hopefuls were in the early stages of planning primary challenges against entrenched incumbents.
Ocasio-Cortez, then a bartender/waitress in Manhattan, had set her sights on toppling Joe Crowley, a congressman representing parts of the Bronx and Queens and one of the most powerful Democrats in the House. Experts gave her about zero chance of winning, but Ocasio-Cortez had a strategy. “I don’t think any of these folks would have run if they didn’t think it was possible to win,” Lears observes. “It was very touch and go with all of them, the whole way along.”“She talked a lot about how there’s an illusion of power, that the Queen’s democratic machine held onto power largely because this illusion that it was all powerful, that it controlled everything, destroys enemies,” Blotnick observes.
“I have a really positive impression of how widely the film has reached,” Lears notes. “We wanted to make sure it would be available to reach people who don’t necessarily watch documentaries…A lot of people are watching it more than once. I met a young woman a couple of weeks ago who had seen it eight times.
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