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No Umbrella: Election Day in the City

No Umbrella: Election Day in the City

2006Short⏱️ 23m
DocumentaryShort
8
IMDB Rating
30 votes

Cleveland, Ohio. Election Day 2004. An irascible octogenarian inner city councilwoman takes on polling place chaos, an unresponsive bureaucracy and an increasingly agitated electorate.

Director
Laura Paglin
Writers
N/A
Stars
Jane Campbell, Fannie Lewis
Language
English
Country
United States
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💬 1
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🎭 Top Cast

👤
Jane Campbell
as Self - Mayor
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Fannie Lewis
as Self

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🏷️ Keywords

experimental shorthuman rightsafrican american

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⭐ Featured Review

What many were thinking, few dared to say
by mdm-112006-03-23
10/10

"This short film is testimony to countless Americans who felt that the 2004 Presidential Election was deliberately manipulated by various officials to suppress the anticipated turn out of the "wrong kind of voters". Purely by accident the director, expecting to document the voting process of an Urban Precinct in Cleveland, became an instrument of exposing a national problem. In a democracy, people depend on fairness. When a basic right such as participating in the political process is tampered with, citizens tend to lose faith in their "system". Americans have been lied to,..."

📖 Synopsis

Cleveland, Ohio. Election Day 2004. An irascible octogenarian inner city councilwoman takes on polling place chaos, an unresponsive bureaucracy and an increasingly agitated electorate.