ABOUT We the people 2.0
| USA | 2017 | 91 minutes
Leila Conners, Director Mathew Schmid, Producer Thomas Linzey, Featured Walton Goggins, Narrator Eric Avery, Composer
"We the People 2.0 confronts its viewers with the ravages of mine tailings and leaky containment ponds, of sludge and ooze and grue, all of which, the film documents, are killing people, particularly in the cancer-blighted small towns of North America. The film's brief is laudable: Alongside documenting grassroots activism, including the kayak flotillas that protested Shell Oil in Seattle, the film focuses on legal challenges presented to corporations by granting rights to ecosystems. Talking heads come from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit that helps small towns draft laws against fracking, factory farming, and water privatization. The voice of narrator Walton Goggins, formerly of TV's rural meth-opera "Justified," is a great boon to the film, perhaps making viewers wish he would just let it rip in the grandiloquent manner of his TV character Boyd Crowder. The "2.0" in the title refers to what the filmmakers have dubbed "The Second American Revolution"—a battle not against a foreign power, but against corporate power." - SIFF
We the People 2.0 Credits
Directed by: Leila Conners
Produced by: Mathew Schmid
Narrated by: Walton Goggins
Executive Producers: Lisa Shields, Mathew Schmid, Renate Schmid
Co-Executive Producers: Cathy O'Neill, Shannon Factor, Bill Benenson, Laetitia Cash, Barbara Bosson
Music by: Eric Avery
Featuring: Thomas Linzey, Ben Price, Mik Robertson, Cathy Miorelli, Joe Murphy, Doug Shields, Tish O'Dell, Ann Kneeland, Ashley Hernandez, Kate Perly