Film Screening:

Our Brand is Crisis
(Rachel Boynton, 2005, 87 min, USA, in English & Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD)

-- Discussion to follow!

Filmmaker Rachel Boynton follows a crack team of U.S. Democratic political consultants as they strategize for a struggling Bolivian presidential candidate in this eye-opening glimpse at the Americanization of international politics. Boynton uses intimate access to think sessions, media training, and smear campaign planning meetings to show how the consultants' strategies shape the relationship between candidate and voter. With James Carville, Tad Devine, and Jeremy Rosner.

"Will pack a punch with even the most informed viewer"
-- New York Times

Part of the Rights! Camera! Action! film series.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Archives for Human Rights & Documentary Arts in the Special Collections Library, the Duke Human Rights Center, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).