Award winning filmmaker and journalist Auberi Edler joins us as we dive into our coverage of the Stockholm Film Festival.

We discuss Auberi's latest film "An American Pastoral" which covers a school board election in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania. What unfolds will surprise and possibly scare you.

It’s an even handed portrayal of a battle that pits right wing MAGA republicans, including a married couple that proudly helped organize and storm the capitol on January 6th, against a coalition of center republicans and democrats in a race that focuses on book bans and a traditional Christian vs secular approach to managing public education.

Everybody involved is honest and passionate which sets up some very dramatic confrontations. 

Auberi is able to win trust and take us into the lives of the candidates and broader community and what she reveals helps explain the growing divide splitting Americans.

The result is sometimes disturbing.

Join us as we meet Auberi Edler.

Trailer: An American Pastoral

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