Film featuring Ocasio-Cortez to be screened at Windmuller Park Saturday
April 24, 2019 By Alexa Beyer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fans can book their calendars for an outdoor documentary screening this weekend.
“Knock Down the House,” the award-winning film that follows the freshman congresswoman’s victorious underdog campaign, will be screened at Windmuller Park on Saturday night at 8:15. The event is free and open to the public.
The “sneak preview” screening comes in advance of the film’s May 1st Netflix premiere. The streaming giant bought the film for a record-setting $10 million in February shortly after it aired at the Sundance Film Festival, taking home the fan favorite award in the documentary category.
Ocasio-Cortez is one of four progressive female candidates that documentarian Rachel Lears follows in the film.
Access to premiere at Windmuller will begin at 7 p.m., and limited chairs will be available on a first come, first served basis. Attendees are otherwise invited to bring their own blankets and chairs to sit on.
A Q&A with Lears will follow the screening.
Prior to the screening, the congresswoman is hosting a town hall in nearby Corona from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Elmcor Youth & Adult Activities Center.
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This documentary was great.
It showed how corrupt and pathetic Joe Crowley was? just for getting rid of him she should be thanked.
He so arrogant, entitled, was appointed to his seat in Congress, and his Queens Machine never let anyone else on ballot to run against him. He lived in Virginia the whole time, and used court appointees etc to get all his family and self rich.
he is not even smart? that is obvious in this film. his comments are dumb.
Regardless if you support AOC or Trump or your grandma… this movie is very interesting and really made me realize how much influence our representatives really have in Congress.
So here’s the big lesson(spoiler alert), go out and VOTE!
I’m just going to leave that comment here.
Lots of Communist News Network viewers on sunnyside post.
Neat rant…is it related to the article somehow?
Ok don’t go out and confuse communism and socialism… here’s a helpful link… misinformation tends to conflict.
One thing for sure is, we need to invest more in our public school education.
https://www.investopedia.com/video/play/difference-between-communism-and-socialism/
you DO realize socialism is the precursor to communism, right? RIGHT?
You DO realize that having social programs in a democratic society is VERY different from Socialism, don’t you? Educate yourself and stop sounding ignorant.
What did Fox News tell you Socialism was?
I hope its not tax payers money thats paying for this Socialist anti-American gathering?
AOC is a democrat, not a socialist. Do you know what that word means?
AOC is not a socialist??? Are you kidding?
That’s correct. She is a Democratic Socialist.
You…know that’s different than Socialism, right?
Democratic Socialism is not Socialism, it is not Social Democracy.
Does anyone who is a Democrat know what it means to be democratic?
Marxists and democratic socialists (like AOC) oppose each other. Please try to regurgitate the correct smear.
her ideology is totally socialist- do you know what that word means? and BTW all you cortez sheep need to get over the Trump/Fox references and move on with your lives. You had not a clue who she was 6 months ago.
“her fans” – all three marxists. Her mother has fled the state for Florida.
Well democratic socialists reject the idea that socialism can be accomplished only through extra-legal class conflict and a proletarian revolution.
This has DIVIDED Marxists democratic socialists (like AOC).
Did you know that? Do you know what Marxism is? Or did you just hear Fox News tell you socialism is bad and you think that’s the same thing?
Do you think AOC supports, Marxism–Leninism or Trotskyism? Do you know what that is? Oh…you don’t? But I thought you knew what Marxism was…
Whoa, a New Yorker moving to Florida? THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
If you disagree with AOC, you are racist; this is logic of sunnyside and sunnyside post. Is this communist post?
What an incredibly narcissistic insult to everyone’s intelligence. The city parks should not be used to promote a frigging cult of personality for someone who is supposed to be a congressional representative.
lol
Will it show all the underhanded tricks played to get her nominated ????
Never heard of her till voting day NO I did not vote for her
Please tell us about the evidence of underhanded tricks. Thanks.
Are you sure you want to announce to everyone that you didn’t bother paying attention to the election until “voting day?”
I saw her supporters getting signatures around the neighborhood long before the election, plenty of news articles about her challenge including her pushing for a debate with Crowley, and even had someone from her campaign knock on my door one time.
In fact, here’s an article from THIS WEBSITE almost exactly a year ago about her: https://sunnysidepost.com/progressive-democrat-is-taking-on-crowley-for-congress-says-queens-of-today-is-not-queens-of-20-years-ago
So where’s the dirty trick?
She is out new president!!!
I hope there is a snowstorm Saturday night.
You lost me here: “victorious underdog campaign.”
On what planet was she the underdog? Soros money got her through the primary. With no Republican challenger we were screwed.
Is that because, that’s a complete lie?
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?two_year_transaction_period=2018&contributor_name=george+soros&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=08%2F24%2F2018
Or do you mean when her campaign gained momentum from an interview she gave on Young Turks that is supported, in part, by a nonprofit that received a grant from an organization that received funding from a Soros foundation.
The Young Turks is supported by The Media Consortium, which got funding from the Chicago Community Trust, the Park Foundation, the Wallace Global Fund, and the Media Democracy Fund. The Media Democracy Fund lists 12 funding partners and one of them is Soros’ the Open Society Foundations.
Is that what you meant by…”Soros money got her through”??
Or was that just a bigoted dog whistle as usual?
She is supported by a cretin who names his show after a group of genocidal dictators who killed 80 percent of the Armenians living within the borders of the Ottoman Empire–not to mention tens of thousands of Greeks and Assyrians, too. She arrogantly proclaims she is the arbiter of what is “morally right,” but the Genocide deniers (cheerleaders, even) and anti-Semites with whom she chooses to ally herself speaks volumes.
You’re upset about the podcast name?
Hey buddy your tinfoil hat is on too tight . How would Alex Jones be able to contact you to defeat the reptilians.
Please give evidence of the “Soros money” from a credible journalistic source.
Will she be addressing her complete silence about the attack in Sri Lanka? I mean she had over 10 tweets about the New Zealand massacre. Hmmmm. I wonder what was different about this attack?
A hate the USA fest is what this will be there’ll be a lot of the freaks around.
Your comment is almost word-for-word Piers Morgan’s take on the “issue” he made on Twitter. Original! ?
Imagine being this offended a politician didn’t TWEET!
Hey look, I found one of the people who were outraged over Starbucks’ red cups!
Is this a joke? Is this for real?
Followed by anti-American chanting.It will be a real hammer and sickle night.
build a skatepark!
Finally someone with some brains on here.
I can not wait for this!!! I bet it will be so educational, another “Triumph of the Will”
Maybe they can out special armbands or something.
Why do you hate the Trump supporters that murdered someone in Charlottesville?
Down votes are like flak. The more there are the closer I am to the target.
When will they release the updated version of Birth of a Nation with commentary from Donnie Despot?
Birth of a Nation was one of the greatest movies ever! I hope it will be shown at Lou Lodati Park.
It’s rather hard to separate its achievements as a work of art from the fact that it was a love story to the Klan. I tried watching it once and couldn’t stomach it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/08/383279630/100-years-later-whats-the-legacy-of-birth-of-a-nation
Epic Film, Embedded Bigotry
The Birth of a Nation is three hours of racist propaganda — starting with the Civil War and ending with the Ku Klux Klan riding in to save the South from black rule during the Reconstruction era.”
The same director also did the film Intolerance
A documentary offended you?LOL.
“Birth of a nation” is not a documentary. That’s what we’re talking about, right?
Technically, one of the greatest movies ever. There is no argument! Factually, one of the worst. No argument there either.
Ah yes thank you for showing us that racism is alive and well. Please don’t stop posting don’t stay in the shadows. In fact maybe grow a spine and say these things in public not behind a computer screen.