DOC WEEK: STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! with Amy Goodman!

Fri Jul 31, 7:30 pm @ Martha's Vineyard Film Center

$15 General Admission, $12 Member, $10 child (age 14 or younger)

Doors open for admissions 30 minutes prior to screening. Buy tickets at The Film Center or online now

Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

“A pretty compelling and dynamic doc.” – FilmWeek

AMY GOODMAN is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 1,500 public television and radio stations worldwide.

Goodman is a recipient of the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence, American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award, the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award

Goodman is the author of six New York Times bestsellers: “Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America,” co-written with David Goodman and Denis Moynihan (2016); “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope” (2012); “Breaking the Sound Barrier” (with a preface by Bill Moyers), (2009); “Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times” co-written with David Goodman (2008); “Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back” co-written with David Goodman (2006); and “The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them” co-written with David Goodman (2004).