Knock Down The House
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Logline
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.
Sarah Olson
Producer
Sarah developed and produced the highly acclaimed documentary FED UP, which premiered at Sundance in 2014, for Atlas Films. Named as a NYT Critics Pick and “a movie that matters” by Rolling Stone, FED UP was acquired by Radius/TWC and received a broad theatrical release. In addition, while at Atlas Films, Sarah line produced the 2009 award-winning documentary TAPPED and developed and produced short films and viral campaigns for Environmental Working Group and Food and Water Watch. Bilingual in Italian, Sarah spent the last three years living in Italy, traveling, and working on personal writing projects.
Rachel Lears
Director
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.
Robin Blotnick
Producer
ROBIN BLOTNICK produced and edited the Netflix documentary KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (winner of the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite award at Sundance 2019) which follows four working class women who shook up the 2018 primary elections. His previous work as director and editor includes the award-winning documentaries THE HAND THAT FEEDS (2014, co-directed with Rachel Lears), about a bitter struggle for justice at a New York City bagel shop, and GODS AND KINGS (2012), about masks, magic and media in the Guatemalan highlands. His archival collage CITY OF MOVEMENT is currently playing on infinite loop at the Museum of the City of New York.