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Sundance Film Festival Daily Insider

Short Shot: 'No Umbrella - Election Day in the City'

By Andrea Meyer
Sundance Film Festival Daily Insider

A lot of journalists and filmmakers went out looking for a story on Election Day, 2004. Only one of them was lucky enough to find Fannie Lewis. The feisty, 80-year-old councilwoman from Cleveland, Ohio – star of Laura Paglin’s short documentary No Umbrella – is all grit and no nonsense, with the determination of Sisyphus and the refusal to understand the word “no"...