Now Showing: ‘SLAY THE DRAGON’

HamptonsFilm is pleased to continue to curate the hit screening series NOW SHOWING, featuring acclaimed first-run, art house, independent, and world cinema. The only difference is that now screenings will take place in the privacy of your own home.


SLAY THE DRAGON

Directed by Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance
(2019, USA, 101 minutes)

“The most important political film of the year, and it may prove to be one of the key political films of the decade.” — Variety

Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

After the 2008 election, a secretive, well-funded partisan initiative poured money into state legislative races in key swing states to gain control of their redistricting processes and used high-tech analytics to dramatically skew voting maps based on demographic data. The result is one of the greatest electoral manipulations in U.S. history, one that poses a fundamental threat to our democracy and exacerbates the already polarized atmosphere in Congress and state houses across the country.

Gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing electoral maps to serve the party in power, has been around for centuries. But in today’s hyperpartisan political environment it has been taken to unprecedented extremes, fueled by the elimination of corporate campaign contribution limits and the availability of vast amounts of personal information.

The new documentary SLAY THE DRAGON shines a light on this timely issue, and follows a handful of citizens’ groups, outraged by what they see as an attack on the core democratic principle that every person’s vote should count equally, as they battle party operatives and an entrenched political establishment to fix a broken system.


This week’s “screening” will support HamptonsFilmGuild Hall, and the distributor (Magnolia Pictures). Follow us @HamptonsFilm on social media for future releases!