Special screening of the timely election-themed documentary No Time to Fail, and a remote Q&A with co-director Sara Archambault and in person with Rachel Rodriguez from the Dane County Clerk's Office.
Arts + Literature Laboratory will present a special screening of the new documentary No Time to Fail on Monday, October 24 at 7:00pm. Free admission, limited seating. Advance registration requested at https://notimetofaildoc.bpt.me (limit 2 per transaction). Walk-ups welcome for remaining seating.
No Time To Fail | Sara Archambault and Margo Guernsey | USA | 2022 | 90 minutes
Election workers are ground zero for democracy.
No Time to Fail follows Rhode Island's local election administrators and poll workers as they work around the clock to secure the vote for their community during the 2020 election--amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President, and the deadly threat of a global pandemic.
Once invisible to the general public, election administrators are at the center of an ongoing public debate about the integrity of our democracy. No Time to Fail is an invitation to the American electorate to meet the people whose job it is to uphold the scaffolding of our republic and protect free and fair elections in what emerges as an unprecedented voting adventure.
More information at the No Time to Fail website, and on Instagram @notimetofaildoc.
Update! Listen to filmmakers Sara Archambault and Margo Guernsey interviewed on WORT-FM's A Public Affair: https://www.wortfm.org/no-time-to-fail-a-film-about-election-workers/
The film screening will be followed by a remote Q & A session with co-director Sara Archambault, and in-person with Rachel Rodriguez, Election Management Specialist, Dane County Clerk's Office.
Sara Archambault is a Creative Producer dedicated to the practice of artful nonfiction storytelling. She has an extensive professional history in production, programming and foundation work, including 10 years as Program Director at the LEF Foundation, and 9 years as Founder/Programmer of the award-winning documentary film series The DocYard. Past producing credits include Emmy-nominated documentary Traces of the Trade, Street Fighting Men, Truth or Consequences, and Riotsville, USA. Sara's work has shown in festivals around the world and received support from the Sundance Film Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, SFFILM, Catapult Film Fund, IDA, Hot Docs Pitch Forum, and Film Independent among others. She was a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a 2013 Sundance Creative Producers Lab Fellow and was named the 2020 SF DocFest Vanguard Awardee. She is a board member of The Flaherty.
