![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they explore why, to meet the challenges of our time and live up to the promises of our founding, we need to correct course. A remarkable cast includes a civil rights leader, the former heir apparent to the white nationalist movement, and former cabinet secretaries of both parties. Our politics value opponents’ demise over dialogue - and our elected officials put party over country. But they’re up against a hate industry devoted to contempt and division. A common-sense majority is exhausted and eager for solutions. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for David Smick's documentary Stars and Strife, from YouTube:Ī documentary about how an epidemic of hatred has left America helpless in the face of crisis. Chrissy Houlahan, the first woman ever to represent Pennsylvania's 6th District in the U.S. The film features interviews with: Hawk Newsome, President of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York Rahm Emanuel, Former White House Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago Derek Black, the Godson of KKK Grand Wizard David Duke who has publicly condemned white nationalism the late Alice Rivlin, founder of the Congressional Budget Office Rep. Executive produced by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson. From filmmaker David Smick, Stars and Strife is a documentary about how an epidemic of hatred has left America helpless in the face of crisis-and how a return to empathy can save us. This cannot just be an economics lecture - nobody will watch it."America is like a dysfunctional couple on the way to divorce court." An official trailer is available for an indie documentary titled Stars and Strife, another film about America's current problems and explosion of hate. The film is not a cynical piece, Smick said, and included comedic elements through silent film-era humor and animation. We’re ignoring them while we’re basically pointing fingers at one another.” “And in the end, it’s counterproductive because we’re not ultimately moving ahead with the massive amounts of problems that this country has. “We’re just angry, and we lash out at all of these particular things,” Levinson said. Additionally, Smick and Levinson wanted to highlight empathy and understanding as pathways for enacting this change. The filmmakers wanted the doc to be forward-looking, offering a future that was hopeful and attuned to progress. “I was not interested in just a Kumbaya film, where we all get together … I wanted to provide some substance in the film,” Smick said. Unlike similar documentaries about partisanship, Smick said he wanted to differentiate his story by focusing on compromise, both historically and presently. What do we do? What do we do to just move ahead in the 21st century, with some common mission?” “And it’s not just facts and things, and this is our viewpoint, period. “I think the documentary, and why I responded to it, is that it deals with the human condition, and this is where we are,” Levinson said. He said he became keenly aware of the division fomenting in the country and set a course to secure help from an established filmmaker to realize his vision. Smick has seen the Capitol up close, working in international finance in Washington D.C. “And I got very worried about the future of our country when you see the lack of empathy, a lack of any goodwill toward each other.” “The whole country is facing a hate epidemic,” Smick said. In a conversation with Variety film awards editor Clayton Davis, Smick and executive producer Barry Levinson discussed the central message of “Stars and Strife,” which examines the swell of anger and hatred in American culture and partisanship through interviews with activists, elected officials and other prominent figures. “Hate is almost like a drug,” writer and director of the documentary “Stars and Strife,” David Smick said. ![]()
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