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Anti-Trumpists Are Suddenly Progressive Documentary Funders

Anti-Trumpists Are Suddenly Progressive Documentary Funders

Published by Daniella Wilson

Anti-Trumpists have emerged as a new and growing source of financing for embattled political documentary makers. Richard Lorber, president of Kino Lorber, on Friday told a Toronto Film Festival panel on connecting audiences to non-fiction movies that progressive, or politically-oriented, documentaries are drawing on “civic-minded citizens with significant contributions, which allow them to get made and give viewers a chance to go to the theater.” Beyond such “impact partners,” the TIFF: The Market panel centered on how to get documentaries financed and released as they make slow return to theaters after the pandemic. “The only thing you can count on in releasing quality art house specialty films is disappointment,” Lorber argued, even as he has had recent gains with theatrical docs like the Oscar-winning Mr Nobody Against Putin and the summer arthouse hit Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World. That theatrical success offered Lorber proof of “a ray of light that you’ve suddenly activated, a sleeper cell of fans who you didn’t know even existed.” mTuckman Media principal Michael Tuckman had his own recent success …

Angie Nixon on division between progressive, establishment Democrats: ‘It’s not about labels’

Angie Nixon on division between progressive, establishment Democrats: ‘It’s not about labels’

Published by Sam Flores

Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (D), who defeated President Trump whistleblower Alex Vindman in the Sunshine State’s Democratic Senate primary, said Wednesday the divisions in the party were not important. “It’s not necessarily a socialist message or a progressive message. It’s actually just about the needs of people,” Nixon said in a Wednesday appearance on… Source link

Rick Caruso Is the Democrat Progressive Hollywood Loves to Hate. He’s Not Going Anywhere.

Rick Caruso Is the Democrat Progressive Hollywood Loves to Hate. He’s Not Going Anywhere.

Published by Sam Flores

But Caruso still won’t shake Katzenberg’s hand. The grudge dates back to the 2022 campaign, when Caruso says a pro-Bass political action committee backed by Katzenberg ran ads that compared him to Donald Trump. When Katzenberg approached him at a restaurant after the election, Caruso says, he refused the offered handshake and demanded a public apology. When Katzenberg tried again roughly a year later, Caruso says, he gave him the same answer. “I said, ‘You know the rule. I’m not going to shake your hand.’” Caruso can definitely hold a grudge, but he also seems preoccupied with whether he is, in some larger sense, a good man. His Catholic faith comes up repeatedly. He attends St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, where he and his wife, Tina, were married and their children were baptized and confirmed. At one point I remind Caruso that, in an earlier interview, he was asked which person in history he would choose to meet and he answered Jesus Christ. So what would Jesus make of the career of a …

Progressive Democrats Face More Major Tests in Key Primaries

Progressive Democrats Face More Major Tests in Key Primaries

Published by Sam Flores

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Midwest primaries will again test power of progressive candidates : NPR

Midwest primaries will again test power of progressive candidates : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

A voter fills out their ballot at the Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services building on September 20, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minn. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. Minnesota and Wisconsin hold primary elections Tuesday that will determine how Democrats define themselves heading into the November midterm elections. Wisconsin is a swing state in presidential elections and Minnesota has been a stronghold for Democrats over the last two decades. Journalists from across the NPR Network in Minnesota and Wisconsin are covering the races in their communities. Here’s what we are watching. Will Democrats in another Midwest swing state choose a far-left candidate?  Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong speaks on stage during Wisconsin Democrats 2026 Convention on June 14, 2026 in Madison, Wisconsin. Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images North America A week after progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated a more moderate candidate in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, another test of progressive power …

Progressive National Baptist young people see signs of welcome but seek less judgment

Progressive National Baptist young people see signs of welcome but seek less judgment

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before 2025, the yearly meeting of the Progressive National Baptist Convention occurred in August, making it harder for some students to make it to the gathering. But now teens and young adults meet in July for their annual session along with older members of the historically Black denomination. The move comes as younger Black Americans have in recent years become less likely than their elders to attend predominantly Black churches, according to Pew Research Center. PNBC leaders want to demonstrate that young people are welcome. At its recent meeting in the nation’s capital, young members from high schoolers to 20-somethings joined adults in a visit to Capitol Hill, attended a live episode of the denomination’s youth-led “The Pew and The Porch” podcast and later discussed their thoughts on the current and future state of the church. Kaisa Jones, 14, a member of an Augusta, Georgia, church attended all three and was particularly impressed by the podcast, which launched last year. RELATED: African Americans attend church, Bible study more than others, but Black …

Booted from evangelicalism, a progressive, ‘post-evangelical’ church blooms in Texas

Booted from evangelicalism, a progressive, ‘post-evangelical’ church blooms in Texas

Published by Sam Flores

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — When Mariah and Michaela Montgomery-Lindsay moved more than 150 miles from Houston to Austin with three cats and two dogs in tow, it wasn’t for a job or family, but for church. “I was just aching for a community of people who understood this transitionary pain that I was experiencing in my life, and this deconstruction that I was going through,” Mariah said. She and her now-wife, Michaela, had been watching Sunday services of the Austin church, Restore, on YouTube for years. After growing up in a charismatic church and suppressing her gay identity for most of her life, Restore Austin, which offers a rare blend of progressive theology and evangelical expression, was the first church Mariah encountered that understood her exit from evangelicalism and was LGBTQ-affirming. After learning about Restore’s LGBTQ social group, the couple wanted in.   In early 2024, they arrived in the parking lot of the middle school where Restore meets each Sunday. That first visit, Mariah recalled, was a “visceral experience.”     “I think I cried …

People are sick of Rahm Emanuel”: Sanders says progressive wins make Dem establishment “nervous

People are sick of Rahm Emanuel”: Sanders says progressive wins make Dem establishment “nervous

Published by Sam Flores

Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to hear from Rahm Emanuel, and he’s pretty sure the average voter doesn’t want Emanuel’s opinion either.  The former Obama administration insider and Chicago mayor published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, chiding progressive candidates for poisoning the well with supposedly unpopular policy positions ahead of the 2026 midterms. Speaking to CBS‘ “Face The Nation” on Sunday, the independent senator from Vermont pushed aside Emanuel’s concerns, saying that he’s just “nervous” because anti-establishment Democrats keep winning.  “[Emanuel] no doubt has the support of millions of working class people,” Sanders joked. “There’s no debate. There is a strong division within the Democratic Party.” Sanders went on to paint that schism as the divide between people like Emanuel, who are “dependent on billionaire campaign contributors” and upstarts like New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. “What is getting these guys nervous is we are winning all over this country,” he said. “People are sick and tired of the Rahm Emanuels and the Democratic establishment.” Sanders pegged voter disaffection on …

‘It’s a sin if you do not vote’: Progressive National Baptists urge midterm turnout

‘It’s a sin if you do not vote’: Progressive National Baptists urge midterm turnout

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Progressive National Baptist Convention President David Peoples ended his tenure leading the historically Black denomination with a plea for members of its churches to do everything they could to get people — in their churches and in their homes — out to the polls for the November midterm elections. “You ought to tell them we have no choice but to vote,” he declared from a ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel on the last night of the denomination’s annual session Wednesday (July 22). “It’s a sin if you do not vote.” Peoples also threatened to stop welcoming nonvoting members of his family to his home and nonvoting members of his congregation in the church he pastors in Lexington, Kentucky. The denomination, which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called home, was started 65 years ago after its founders left another Baptist denomination over its lack of support for civil rights and its officer election policy. Peoples concluded his four-year term as the annual session ended. He assumed the presidency in 2021 after …