The Power of Us at a Film Festival

Issue 74: Jay offers an inside look at the Astoria Film Festival where our documentary screened this weekend

This week, we’re bringing blogging back and taking you through a day in Jay’s life at the Astoria Film Festival! This past Sunday, we screened our documentary, The Power of Us: Protecting Democracy in a Time of Extreme Polarization to a general audience and Jay went to the festival in a brand new role: Director! Our film was produced by Richard Sergay, an award-winning journalist who spent most of his career at ABC News.

Our documentary film explains some of the sources of polarization and extremism in American and abroad and offers solutions to polarization from researchers, change makers, and organizational leaders. We wrote a short summary of the film in a previous newsletter and you can watch it below. We are trying something different with the newsletter this week, so the remainder is about the film festival experience through Jay’s eyes.