We the People 2.0 (2016)
Premiered Seattle International Film Festival 2016
1h 32min | English | Directed by Leila Conners | Produced by Mathew Schmid
"If you live in a corporate state, the only thing left is to dismantle it and build something new."
Feature doc featuring Thomas Linzey of the Community Environment Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) about the growing community rights / democracy movement in the United States. Essential path forward in the face of the oligarchy. Directed by Leila Conners, produced by Mathew Schmid. Premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival 2016.
Trailer
World Premiere 2016 Seattle Film Festival (SIFF)
Official Selection Colorado Environmental Film Festival
Official Selection Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Official Selection Oneonta Film Festival
Official Selection Bioneers Film Series
Official Selection The Salem Progressive Film Series
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
"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."
- Seattle International Film Festival
“Americans are often under the belief that the EPA or their local state environmental agency is going to save them from environmental pollution, and that is simply not the case," says Leila Conners, a documentarian whose 2016 film, We the People 2.0, examines how corporations undermine American democracy. "What people have to realize is that they are participating in a system that is not working. Across our country right now, companies are allowed to dump their waste pretty much for free.”
- Rolling Stone
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“A riveting documentary about ordinary citizens taking back their governments.”
- Quad City Times
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“The fundamental, timely message of We the People—that meaningful action to reassert control of our health, quality of life, and democracy must be rooted in our local communities—resonates. “Right where we live,” CELDF’s Ben Price says, “is where we need to have democracy the most.” In a year when corporate media have bombarded us with nonstop presidential campaign coverage, this message is welcome and crucial.”
- YES! Magazine
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Credit Block
Featuring President Thomas Linzey
Directed by Leila Conners
Produced by Mathew Schmid
Narrated by Walton Goggins
Original Music by Eric Avery
Executive Producers Lisa Shields, Mathew Schmid, Renate Schmid
Co-Executive Producers Cathy O'Neill, Shannon Factor, Bill Benenson, Laetitia Cash, Barbara Bosson
Featuring also Ben Price, Mik Robertson, Cathy Miorelli, Joe Murphy, Doug Shields, Tish O'Dell, Ann Kneeland, Ashley Hernandez, Kate Perly​
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