SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
Maine Premiere Screening!
Introduced by Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Secretary of State.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Sara Archambault and Margo Guernsey.
Note: Sara Archambault and Margo Guernsey will be joined by Nick Lima, Registrar and Director of Elections for the City of Cranston, RI and South Portland City Councilor Linda Cohen, a former Portland and South Portland City Clerk, for a discussion after the film. League of Women Voters of Maine will provide voter guides and voter registration information outside of the auditorium.
Election administrators were once invisible to the general public. Despite the unbelievable challenges and desperate attempts to disrupt and upend the 2020 election, they pulled off the most secure election in our history; and they did it amidst a global pandemic.
Rather than receiving a hero’s welcome, they have become the focus of an ongoing coordinated campaign of disinformation.
No Time To Fail gives voice to the experiences of this largely invisible, yet completely indispensable workforce, at this critical time in our country’s relationship with election management.
Sara Archambault is an independent documentary film producer inspired by 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 organizations like 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.
Margo Guernsey began her film career in 2010 as a producer at WPBT2 (Miami). Since 2012 she has worked freelance as a director and producer of industrial videos in the Boston area. Over the past 20 years, Margo has worked as a union organizer, non-profit development director, Spanish/English translator and media instructor, always building multi-racial collaborations across class lines to inform the work of building a more just society. Margo brings her organizing, fundraising and filmmaking background to work on film outreach and impact. She holds an MFA in Film (University of Miami), MA in History (Umass/Amherst), BA in History (Brown University), and is a Tribeca/Camden/CNNFilms Retreat Alumni. She directed the film Councilwoman in 2019.