Los Angeles Times
No Umbrella: Election Day in the City - 7:30 p.m. Cinemax
Filmmaker Laura Paglin finds frustration and disenfranchisement in one impoverished Cleveland precinct during the controversial 2004 presidential election...
Air America ‘Ring of Fire’
In this audio interview, Laura Paglin, producer/director of the mini-documentary 'No Umbrella', describes the fiasco she encountered on election day 2004 in a poor, black precinct in Cleveland...
OpEdNews
No Umbrella - Election Day In The City, director Laura Paglin's documentary chronicling 2004 Election Day troubles in one of Cleveland's poorest neighborhoods, makes its television debut Thursday, November 9th, 7:30 PM (EST) 10:30PM (PST) on the Cinemax cable network...
By Joe Gandelman, Editor-In-Chief
The Moderate Voice
Just two weeks from today Americans go to the polls.
And, hopefully, when they do there won’t be scenes similar to those captured in No Umbrella: Election Day In The City by a simple, hand-held camera that immortalized a combination tragedy, outrage and grim comedy that unfolded on Nov. 2, 2004 in one of Cleveland, Ohio’s poorest neighborhoods. The people turned out in droves to vote and found they couldn’t...
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..."