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Sierra Pettengill is known for Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022), The Reagan Show (2017) and The Rifleman (2021).
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Where Sierra Pettengill’s previous all-archival film, The Reagan Show (co-directed with Pacho Velez), asked the question “How did we get here?” by re-examining the ’80s, her new feature Riotsville, USA goes back further, to the oft-examined period from roughly 1967 to 1968.
Sep 15, 2022 · Sierra Pettengill discusses the making of her archival documentary Riotsville, USA, available in theaters on September 16, 2022.
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Director Sierra Pettengill worked collaboratively with a team that included Tobi Haslett, who wrote the film’s voiceover, Charlene Modeste, who performed it, editor Nels Bangerter, and musician Jace Clayton to carefully unpack the historical context of police militarization in the 1960s.
Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and archivist. Town Hall, her feature-length documentary, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2014. She is the producer of the Academy...
Sep 12, 2022 · Focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called “Riotsvilles,” where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder in the aftermath of the Kerner Commission created by President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Sierra Pettengill’s kaleidoscopic all-archival documentary reconstructs ...
