This film was made, with love, for people: https://t.co/dLnurOR3ss, — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 26, 2019. Both Bush (from Missouri) and Swearengin (West Virginia) largely appear fed up with the establishment Democrats representing their districts.
There’s talk and a call for a vote: “All those in favor of moving her to the next round, raise your hand.” Cut to Corbin Trent, of the Justice Democrats, who says that the “biggest shared goal” of his group and Brand New Congress is “removing the corrupting influence of money in politics.”, These two organizations, Trent continues, are offering an alternative path to Congress, one free of lobbyists and special-interest groups. Her brief tenure in Congress has already demonstrated clearly that her politics are entirely compatible with those of the Democratic Party “establishment.”. Eight months after founding BNC, Chakrabarti, Exley and Rojas founded a new, but similar, political action committee called Justice Democrats in January 2017. Knock Down the House was shot before AOC became the Beyoncé of politics, and it’s not just about her. The big draw of the exuberant documentary “Knock Down the House” — about four women who ran for Congress in 2018 — is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York… Lears said she hoped, with her diverse subjects, to provide a counterweight to a post-Trump media narrative that the president’s far-right platform had won solely because of a decline in the fortunes of the white working class. Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, followed a similar path. "[21] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Of the four women highlighted in the documentary, only Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won in her primary and later in the general election, defeating the fourth most powerful House Democrat, Joe Crowley. Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage. For almost two years, a mom followed several women as we ran for Congress. Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and others are seeking to perform their own brand of political alchemy under conditions in which the Democratic Party is more right-wing than ever before, more beholden to the banks, more subservient to the CIA and the military. They can do what they please. Quickly and efficiently, and with the aid of some concise onscreen text and talking-head interviews, she sketches in how Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats operated. As Utah continues to set new records for COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations, another beloved event has been canceled. But she hopes her documentary will illustrate the ways in which underdog candidates are prompting a gut check for the “resistance.”, “No matter what happens with our political process and who’s actually in power, these are things that aren’t going to be resolved one way or the other anytime soon,” she said. [18][19] It was uploaded to YouTube by Netflix on April 17, 2020. Vilela had come in third in her House primary, while Swearengin fell to Senate fixture Joe Manchin, later the only Democrat who voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. (Two years later, during the next Congressional election cycle, Bush went on to win her primary and the general election in Missouri's 1st congressional district. [11][12] The film was also screened at the True/False Film Festival,[13] the Athena Film Festival,[14] the South by Southwest,[15] the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival,[16] and the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. ", "True/False Film Fest Announces 2019 Lineup", "6 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C.