Rachel Lears
About
RACHEL LEARS is a documentary director, producer and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel's most recent feature documentary, KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (Netflix), follows four women who ran insurgent congressional campaigns in 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush. The film won the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar and is nominated for an Emmy in 2020. Her last feature, THE HAND THAT FEEDS (co-directed with Robin Blotnick; PBS), won numerous festival awards and was nominated for an Emmy in 2017.
To The End
At this critical moment in our history, stopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. TO THE END follows the intersecting stories of four women of color who are key players in the rise of the Green New Deal—an ambitious plan to address climate change, and economic and racial justice in the process. Against the volatile backdrop of the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic, a deepening economic crisis, and historic protests against systemic racism, these young leaders must work together to defend their generation’s right to a future.
Knock Down The House
In 2018, a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri join a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress. Without political experience or corporate money, these women are attempting to do what many consider impossible — until one of them pulls off the most shocking political upset in recent American history.
The Hand That Feeds
An undocumented immigrant deli worker sets out to end abuses at a Manhattan bagel shop and winds up making history.