NOMINEE, OUTSTANDING CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY - News & Documentary Emmy® Awards | CLOSING NIGHT FILM - Tribeca Film Festival | "Riveting and essential." - Variety | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Chicago International Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, and Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival | "Stirring. Revisits a racially divided New York City and offers a critique of the news media then and now” - NY Times
Civil Rights Movement & Activists • Police Brutality • Criminal Justice Reform • Systemic and Structural Racism • Media Bias & Critique • New York City History • Race Relations • The Freedom Movement • Non Violence • Non-Violent Civil Disobedience • Never-before-seen Archival Material • George Floyd • 2020 Summer of Racial Reckoning • The Howard Beach Case • The Tawana Brawley Case • 2020 March on Washington
Date of Completion: 2022 | Run Time: 120 minutes | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director/Writer: Josh Alexander | Producers: Daniel J. Chalfen, Mike Jackson, Kedar Massenburg & Josh Alexander | Editor: Armando Croda | Cinematography: Graham Willoughby & Clemson Brown | Score: Jessie Montgomery & Joel Goodman
Often controversial, occasionally fallible, and always quotable, Reverend Al Sharpton has spent a lifetime confronting America's deafening complacency in the fight against racial injustice -- amplifying the ugly truths about the ongoing impact of structural racism on our nation many would prefer to ignore. Sharpton has been a polarizing figure, inspiring both love and hate on local and national stages. Chronicling his work for social change from the streets of 1980s Brooklyn to 2020s Minneapolis, LOUDMOUTH presents never-before-seen footage of the social justice titan on the frontlines, in the media as well as in the corridors of power, to paint an intimate and revealing portrait of a tireless warrior who has never ducked a fight in his mission to transform the status quo.
The Hollywood Reporter
“An unfiltered view of racism in America”
Variety
“Riveting and essential”
The Wrap
“Powerful”
The NY Times
"Stirring. Revisits a racially divided New York City and offers a critique of the news media then and now”
AWARDS
Nominee, Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary | News & Documentary Emmy® Awards
FILM FESTIVALS
Tribeca Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival
Philadelphia Film Festival
Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
Urbanworld, Denver Film Festival