Isebrand
"an unblinking look at the 2004 US Election Day failures in one of Ohio's poorest neighborhoods. In the most hotly contested state in the country, gridlock at inner city polls ignites tempers and sets off charges of conspiracy..."
Blog Critic
No Umbrella: Election Day In The City is a 30-minute documentary that chronicles a look at inner city voting in Cleveland, Ohio for the 2004 Presidential elections. Located in one of the poorest neighborhoods, no one is ready for the outpouring of people to the polls. Understaffed and under-equipped, it is up to octogenarian councilwoman Fannie Lewis to take charge of the situation...
The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
No Umbrella - Election Day in the City screening with Freedom Summer. A Q&A follows the screening.
The title of this up-close account of African-Americans trying to vote in Ward 7 of Cleveland's Lower East Side during the elections of 2004 comes from an oft-repeated saying of long-time councilwoman Fannie Lewis in the film: "It's like we prayed for rain and didn't bring no umbrellas..."
Submitted by Evelyn Kiefer on March 28, 2006 - 12:30am.
RealNeo
The Cleveland Film Festival screening of Laura Paglin's documentary 'No Umbrella - Election Day' quickly sold out, but those who weren't able to get tickets got another chance in the rotunda of City Hall on Monday night...
Submitted by Norm Roulet on March 27, 2006 - 11:59pm
RealNeo
The grand theater of the Cleveland City Hall rotunda was the perfect setting to see NEO filmmaker Laura Paglin's acclaimed documentary "No Umbrella – An Election Day In The City"...
By Michael K. McIntyre, Plain Dealer Columnist
Cleveland Plain Dealer
MONDAY METRO
Cleveland Councilwoman Fannie Lewis got a standing ovation at the screening of the film "No Umbrella - Election Day in the City," a documentary about problems at a Cleveland polling place in the 2004 election in which the fiery Lewis is the star. The film will be shown again tonight at 6 at City Hall...
By Julie E. Washington
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The subscription DVD service Ironweed Films will release Cleveland Heights filmmaker Laura Paglin's short documentary "No Umbrella - Election Day in the City" in April. It will be packaged with a feature film and other short films by other directors, said Ironweed outreach and marketing manager Natalie Silverstein...
Cleveland Free Times
Cleveland City Council and former Mayor Jane Campbell are apprehensive over a 26-minute short movie called No Umbrella, which screens during Shorts Program VI, at 4:30 p.m. on March 22. A Campbell friend has requested a preview copy of the film. So have members of Council. When festival staff alerted director Laura Paglin, the filmmaker responded: “Under no condition...”
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"...
Jen's Green Journal
I attended a screening for Shorts Program II as part of the Sundance Film Festival here in Salt Lake City yesterday - it was an excellent collection of films, although one of the films, "Range" did not appear in the program. I'm not sure if there were some technical difficulties with the film. The next to the last short film of the set, No Umbrella: Election Day in the City was especially fascinating to the part of me interested in politics and our electoral system...