Presented in partnership with Spurlock Museum and Chambana Film Society
Doors 6:00 PM | Show 6:30 PM
After the film the audience will be joined via Zoom by Academy-Award nominated co-director Carl Deal to discuss the film.
Documentary • USA • 2025 • 98 Minutes
With shrinking newsrooms, media monopolization, weaponized social media, and a president deliberately eroding public trust in truth and reality, Steal This Story, Please! offers an intimate counterpoint, showing how independent media is essential to a functioning democracy. Set against some of the most consequential stories of our time—from the war in Gaza to the global climate catastrophe—the film follows the intrepid independent journalist Amy Goodman over 30 years. As she becomes a leader in the movement for independent media that amplifies voices excluded from the mainstream, she faces off against forces trying to silence her.
The film takes us behind the scenes, from Amy’s upbringing as the wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi to the frontlines of global conflicts. Amy and her team at Democracy Now! have built a grassroots news broadcast that brings fresh perspectives to the airwaves, proving that in an increasingly profit-driven, consolidated media landscape, independent reporting might just be the thing that saves us.
Directors: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Producers: Karen Ranucci, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Diana Cohn, Caren Spruch
Executive Producers: Dominique Bravo, Julie Cohen, Rosario Dawson, Tom Morello, Tony Tabatznik
Cinematographers: Cliff Charles, Nausheen Dadabhoy, Keith Walker
Editor: Mona Davis
Cast: Amy Goodman
