I just saw the documentary, This is What Democracy Looks Like, I posted the trailer above. The film is a look at last year’s protests in Seattle responding to the international gathering of the World Trade Organization Summit. That was an amazing time in Seattle to say the least.
Chronicling the late-’99 anti-World Trade Organization protests already summarized in “Trade Off!” and other activist docus, “This Is What Democracy Looks Like” sports a more rocked-out, visually frenetic approach that manages to be punchy rather than too MTV-ish. Potent, partisan document may find its exposure limited by a surfeit of other, like-themed nonfictioners currently circulating. But subject and participation of a few lefty-cool names (Susan Sarandon, Spearhead’s Michael Franti, agitrockers Rage Against the Machine) should win select campus and rep-house dates. Vid-shot feature is also being disseminated to grassroots groups as an organizing/fundraising tool.
Variety, Dennis Harvey
Peace, dwight
