Coming September 2024 from Sublation Media
HOW WE GOT HERE
A SMOKIE FILMS PRODUCTION
Directed by David Shields
Written by David Shields and James Nugent
Story consultation by Robin Hemley
Produced by David Shields, Erik Sather, Robin Hemley, and Nicole Walker
Narrated by Elena Passarello
Edited by James Nugent
“How We Got Here is terrific. I love this beautiful and thought-provoking film.” —Whitney Otto, author of How to Make an American Quilt
“This film should be required viewing for every Intro to Humanities course in the country. It does the seemingly impossible: reinserts some context to our mostly decontextualized lives. And, perhaps even more surprisingly, the film's pace and structure prevent it from ever feeling even slightly boring, despite the heavy lifting it does to excavate the ideological roots beneath our country's growing social and political turmoil." —Michael Wheaton, Autofocus
“A brilliant, encyclopedic film. The meanings are conveyed by how the film is edited: cutting between the history of ideas of the truth, the arrangement of quotations, the personal versions articulated by different speakers, the black-and-white live action, the colorful animation, and the intersplicing of Two Truths and a Lie.”—Susan Daitch, author of Siege of Comedians: A Novel
“A fast-paced, exhilarating collage of voices converging on the question of how we got to birtherism and election denial.”—Jennifer Jacquet, author of The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World