A world pandemic, a sinking financial system, makes an attempt to overturn the U.S. presidential election, racially-motivated police brutality culminating within the Black Lives Matter motion: 2020 was certainly a “year of multiple colliding crises,” as historian Erika Lee describes within the trailer for June Beallor’s “2020 Chaos and Hope.”
A retrospective on one of essentially the most turbulent years of our lifetimes, the doc revisits 2020 by way of the varied views of frontline employees, activists, scientists, and politicians, amongst others. “2020 Chaos and Hope” contains interviews with specialists together with emergency drugs physician Kamini Doobay, creator and historian Heather Cox Richardson, researcher Joan Donovan, and President Biden’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.
“So many things are changing at once,” Professor Deva Woodly emphasizes within the trailer. “The outcomes of the struggles are going to set the tone for the rest of the century.”
Described as a “comprehensive time capsule of the year 2020,” the doc higlights the battle over data that erupted in a number of social and political arenas, together with conspiracy theories across the COVID-19 virus’s origins and the Biden-Trump battle for presidency. “Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok: our sense of reality has gotten very distorted,” the trailer tells us.
As the movie’s title suggests, nevertheless, the mayhem of 2020 was met with the humanity of residents in even larger ferocity, manifested within the grassroots actions, mutual support, and group that emerged amid the adversity.
A four-time Emmy nominee, Beallor took residence the honour for Outstanding Informational Special in 1996 for producing “Survivors of the Holocaust,” a doc following private accounts of Jewish people earlier than, throughout, and after WWII.
“2020 Chaos and Hope” premieres in Los Angeles on the Laemmle Monica Film Center November 23.
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