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Steal This Story, Please!

Featuring Amy Goodman

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Best known for Democracy Now! the progressive news show she has hosted for 30 years, Amy Goodman earned her stripes in the field, uncovering nefarious activities in East Timor in 1991. She was arrested for her reporting of the Dakota pipeline protests and detained and questioned by Canadian border agents when she came up to speak in Vancouver in 2009.

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?

Directors

Carl Deal & Tia Lessin

Cast

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales, Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Nermeen Shaikh

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

2025

Language

English

Awards

Audience Award, Mill Valley; Audience Award, SIFF DocFest; Audience Award, Woodstock

19+
101 min

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Friday May 15

4:10 pm
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Saturday May 16

1:30 pm
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Sunday May 17

4:30 pm
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Monday May 18

3:00 pm
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Credits

Executive Producer

Dominique Bravo, Julie Cohen, Rosario Dawson, Tom Morello, Tony Tabatznik

Producer

Karen Ranucci, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Diana Cohn, Caren Spruch

Cinematography

Cliff Charles, Nausheen Dadabhoy, Keith Walker

Editor

Mona Davis

Original Music

Zoe Keating

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