Doc Movie ‘No One Requested You’ Trailer Showcasing Humor and Activism
by Alex Billington
October 13, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“Right here I can chuckle about it, however within the courtroom I am unable to.” The official trailer is out for a documentary movie referred to as No One Requested You, exploring the connection comedy and activism with a concentrate on abortion rights. From filmmaker Ruth Leitman, this premiered on the 2023 DOC NYC Movie Competition final yr and is opening subsequent week simply earlier than the upcoming election. The movie is “a daring name to motion pushed by the ability of humor in social change, the place pleasure prevails.” No One Requested You follows the comic and disruptor-extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Day by day Present), and her group Abortion Entry Entrance (web site), as they crisscross the U.S. to help abortion clinic employees and bust stigma with comedy exhibits. Popular culture icons & next-gen comics gas this 6-year street movie activating small-town of us to rebuild vandalized clinics, expose all of the wrongdoer politicians, anti-abortion extremists, and media neglect because the race to the underside ensues and our rights burn down. Yep, that is the type of recent new tackle activism we actually do want proper now. “This can be a motion.” I like her line about how on the finish of the day they are going to have fun pleasure above all.
Here is the official trailer (+ poster) for Ruth Leitman’s doc No One Requested You, direct from YouTube:
Comic, disrupter extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (additionally co-creator of The Day by day Present) and her staff of activists crisscross the U.S. to help abortion clinic employees and bust stigma. Popular culture icons and next-gen comics gas this six-year street movie activating small-town of us to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, home terrorists, and media neglect because the race to the underside ensues. A daring name to motion reminds us that when the patriarchy burns down, pleasure will prevail. No One Requested You is directed by American indie filmmaker Ruth Leitman, director of the movies Wildwood NJ, Alma, Tony & Janina’s American Marriage ceremony, and Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Girls of Wrestling beforehand. It is produced by Andrea Raby and Rachel Rozycki. This initially premiered on the 2023 DOC NYC Movie Competition final yr. Leitman’s No One Requested You doc will debut in choose US theaters (at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema in NYC) beginning on October 18th, 2024 with extra cinemas in November all through Election Day. It’s going to even be obtainable to watch on-line by way of Jolt later in October. For more information, go to the movie’s official website. ?