Gerrymandering

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GERRYMANDERING will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Screening details forthcoming. Thanks for your support!

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Happy 198th Birthday, Gerrymandering!  On this date in 1812, Elbridge Gerry signed into law the plan that was famously labelled the first gerrymander.  Of course, Patrick Henry tried to draw James Madison out of a district nearly a decade before…

Off to shoot again next week! On deck: New Orleans, and Anamosa, IA.

From the Wall Street Journal: Supreme Court Justice Stevens reiterates his objections to the practice of gerrymandering.

And yes, we’re still making a movie.  Off to shoot more in New Orleans and Iowa in a few weeks, then we’ll try to finish the sucker.

Here’s a great story on the film that broke today at CQPolitics.  Bob did a great job of turning my ramblings into something coherent (I’m glad he left out my tangent on redistricting’s relationship to quantum physics; gotta save that stuff for the blog) and provided terrific background.

Not bad for a movie that’s not even done yet…

I don’t watch the show, but maybe I should - this review suggests that some major plot developments have stemmed from the gerrymandering of school districts.

I wonder how something like this might have fit into the film…

When you can, check out Redistricting the Nation which just launched today.  It’s instantly one of the coolest, most accessible and user-friendly sites about redistricting going (and I’m not just shilling because they linked us on their homepage).  We had the good fortune to interview Dana and Tamara from Avencia, the generator of the project, a few weeks ago and are working them into the cut now.  Try drawing a district, or check out your own district’s compactness.

Off to Chicago for the NCSL Redistricting conference tonight…

Just about one year ago today, I wrote this.  This is the one year anniversary of the beginning of production on Gerrymandering, and yesterday we sent a cut off to Sundance.  Not a bad year’s work. 

Two copies of Gerrymandering are on their way to Sundance for consideration.  Now, we wait.

Of course after screening this morning, I already have a page of notes and some restructuring ideas, but I think I’ll sit on those for a little while…

We’re submitting a cut to Sundance on Wednesday and have been working around the clock for a few weeks now.  Key word: exhaustion.