Vote for Me: Politics in America (1996)

Producer, director and writer, with Louis Alvarez and Andy Kolker, of this four-part, four hour series looking at American electoral politics by examining our political culture.  The series visits thirty states and covers elections from the smallest rural precinct to the White House using the humorous, provocative, entertaining style of our earlier film Louisiana Boys.  Described as a "a landslide of an election special" by the Los Angeles Times, "the standout in a season of documentaries" by the Chicago Tribune, "pure Americana, merry and marvelous and authentic" by USA Today, "the best four credit course on real politics you could ever take" by Roll Call, and, by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as "a masterpiece, unmatched by anything you'll see this political season in the breadth and depth with which it makes you laugh, makes you enraged and -- most remarkable of all -- makes you care about politics." 

National PBS broadcast as a two-night special, October 1996. A feature about a women with no political experience running for Congress in western North Carolina, The Political Education of Maggie Lauterer, makes up most Part 2.

Produced & Directed by Louis Alvarez, Andy Kolker & Paul Stekler

Cinematography by Stephen McCarthy

Edited by Kenneth Lewis & Peter Odabashian

Funding from the CIT Group, The Ford Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and PBS.