Gravitas Ventures will release the documentary.
Gravitas Ventures - a RED ARROW Studios company and a leading all rights distributor of independent feature films and documentaries - will release Brittany Huckabee's acclaimed documentary feature How to Fix a Primary. The film, which was an official section of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, provides rare inside access to a touchstone campaign in a movement that is gaining momentum as progressive candidates challenge the political system and establishment across the U.S.
You may know him as a CNN expert on COVID-19. But Abdul El-Sayed had a previous life. How to Fix a Primary follows the young doctor as he takes on Michigan's political establishment in a bid to become the first Muslim governor in U.S. history. With exclusive access and full editorial control, the film follows Abdul and his underdog team in this battleground state as they hustle to gain endorsements from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (both featured in the film) while confronting Islamophobia and a system that seems rigged against them.Full Frame Documentary Film Festival said this of the film: "In following El-Sayed's yearlong journey to the 2018 gubernatorial primary, filmmaker Brittany Huckabee captures the tumultuous pace of a campaign that can turn with a single strategic move. It's a campaign story, but it's not blue versus red - it's grassroots versus the establishment. This is a story not of one person's political dream, but of a tenacious movement that will not be put down easily.Opponents have claimed that Joe Biden is a puppet of the radical left. In reality, the Democratic Party establishment Biden represents has a history of blocking progressive upstarts in primary races across the country. Very few have been elected, though their numbers are steadily increasing with every election cycle. Whether Biden wins or loses, his party faces a major reckoning about its future after the 2020 election. Will Democrats make room for an ascendant progressive wing, or continue to sideline it? Will progressive candidates be able to amass enough victories that they can no longer be ignored?
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