Elyse Steinberg, one of the co-directors of the new documentary “The Fight,” was inspired to learn more about the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu) shortly after Donald Trump moved into in the White House.
“Seven days into Trump’s presidency,” she recalls, after the travel ban in Muslim-majority countries was issued in January 2017, “I joined the protestors on the steps of the Brooklyn courthouse.” That day, from a distance, she spotted Lee Gelernt, one of the lawyers arguing against the ban. He had a triumphant — and bewildered — look on his face as he walked outside, where he heard the crowd chanting: “Aclu! Aclu!”
“He was a person never expecting to be in the maelstrom,” Steinberg says. “And I immediately recognized that being next to this guy, fighting against Trump, was where we needed to be.”
After three years and more than 400 hours of footage, the result is “The Fight,” about...
“Seven days into Trump’s presidency,” she recalls, after the travel ban in Muslim-majority countries was issued in January 2017, “I joined the protestors on the steps of the Brooklyn courthouse.” That day, from a distance, she spotted Lee Gelernt, one of the lawyers arguing against the ban. He had a triumphant — and bewildered — look on his face as he walked outside, where he heard the crowd chanting: “Aclu! Aclu!”
“He was a person never expecting to be in the maelstrom,” Steinberg says. “And I immediately recognized that being next to this guy, fighting against Trump, was where we needed to be.”
After three years and more than 400 hours of footage, the result is “The Fight,” about...
- 1/24/2020
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety - Film News
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