Stopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. Over three years of turbulence and crisis, four remarkable young women of color fight for a Green New Deal and ignite a historic shift in US climate politics. This is a follow up to the critically acclaimed documentary ‘Knock Down the House’ by once again teaming with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other young women activists engaged in halting climate crisis.
“TO THE END shines a light on how progress on climate change will actually be made in a galvanizing film.”
-Stephen Saito, The Moveable Fest
“Rachel Lears picks up where she left off in KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE, and in many ways TO THE END is a logical continuation… but the struggle to be heard continues.”
-Rob Aldam, Backseat Mafia
RACHEL LEARS (director, DP) is a documentary director, producer and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel’s last feature documentary, Knock Down the House (Netflix), follows four women who ran insurgent congressional campaigns in 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush. The film won the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar and nominated for an Emmy in 2020. Her previous feature, The Hand That Feeds (co-directed with Robin Blotnick; PBS), won numerous festival awards and was nominated for an Emmy in 2017. Rachel received the IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2019, and also holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from NYU.
