Laura Paglin films in the news...
By Wayne Aronsen
CanMag
Election day, November 2, 2004, is the subject of this short documentary. Producer/director Laura Paglin chose a single voting location in East Cleveland to illustrate her claim that widespread “voting irregularities” occurred throughout the state of Ohio, depriving the mostly Democratic precincts (in this case, precincts X and T) of their ability vote through a desperate shortage of voting machines and precinct workers...
By Jeffrey Wells
Hollywood Elsewhere
HE is now aware of two excellent films about the ’04 Presidential election in Ohio — a feature documentary I’ve already written about and a short documentary I just saw today. And boy, do they wise you up and make it clear what an incomplete, fuzzy-minded job regular TV news reporters did in covering what was really going down...
Chortler
Where is the outrage? Documentary filmmaker Laura Paglin shows us where some of it should be.
Before Katrina delivered the reality that in the land of the free, some are a lot freer than others, Paglin took a look one of our most cherished freedoms - the right to vote...
Collider
As another election season draws to a close marked by yet another contentious political scandal, a short documentary film on our last Presidential race has made its way from the Sundance Film Festival to an independent DVD release...
By Joan Brunwasser
OpEdNews
I watched No Umbrella: Election Day in the City for the second time tonight. It was hard enough to watch the first time around, before I knew what I was getting into. I attended a screening a few weeks ago at the We Count 2006 Conference on Fair Elections. It was fitting to see this documentary in the city where it was shot a little less than two years ago...
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"...