Still from Acorn and the Firestorm
Still from Acorn and the Firestorm
 

Acorn and the Firestorm

by Reuben Atlas & Sam Pollard
ACORN AND THE FIRESTORM tells the story of a scandalous Conservative sting operation on the community organizing group ACORN.
2017  ·  1h24m  ·  United States
English
English subs
About the Film

For 40 years, the controversial community organizing group ACORN sought to empower marginalized communities. Its critics, though, believed ACORN exemplified everything wrong with liberal ideals, promoting government waste and ineffective activism. These competing perceptions exploded on the national stage in 2009, just as Barack Obama became president. Fueled by a YouTube video made by undercover journalists, ACORN’s very existence would be challenged. ACORN AND THE FIRESTORM goes beyond the 24-hour news cycle and cuts to the heart of the great political divide.

Upcoming Screenings

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Festivals and Awards
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL, New Jersey Films Competition American Truth Seeker Award
About the Director

Reuben Atlas

Reuben Atlas is a filmmaker and non-practicing lawyer whose first documentary, Brothers Hypnotic, premiered at SXSW and broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens. Previously, he worked at a prison, a music law firm, and Legal Aid.

 

Sam Pollard

Sam Pollard is an accomplished feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director. Between 1990 and 2010, Mr. Pollard edited a number of Spike Lee’s films:  MO’ BETTER BLUES, JUNGLE FEVER, GIRL 6, CLOCKERS, and BAMBOOZLED. Mr. Pollard and Mr. Lee co-produced a number of documentary productions for the small and big screen: FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, a feature-length documentary about the 1963 Birmingham church bombings which was nominated for an Academy Award and WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE, a four part documentary that won numerous awards, including a Peabody and three Emmy Awards. Five years later 2010 he co-produced and supervised the edit on the follow up to LEVEES, IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON’T RISE.
Since 2012 Mr. Pollard has completed as a producer/director SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, a 90-minute documentary for PBS that was in competition at the Sundance Festival; AUGUST WILSON: THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND, a 90-minute documentary in 2015 for American Masters; TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’, a feature length documentary in 2016 that premiered at the Full Frame Film Festival. SAMMY DAVIS JR., I’VE GOTTA BE ME for American Masters premièred at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2019 Mr. Pollard co-directed the Six Part Series WHY WE HATE that premiered on The Discovery Channel. In 2020 he was one of the directors on the 2020 HBO Series ATLANTA’S MISSING AND MURDERED: THE LOST CHILDREN. He also completed in 2020 MLK/FBI that premiered at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

 
Other films by Sam Pollard

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