A New and Unsettling Force (2020) // Story Producer & Co Producer // Directed by Dara Kell // Produced by Taira Akbar // Documentary Feature // Funded by JustFilms and the Bertha Foundation.


Echoing Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, a visionary pastor from Goldsboro, North Carolina sets out across the United States to revive the audacious movement to end poverty. Inspiring a nation to join him in voicing the everyday brutality they face, together they risk arrest, put their bodies on the line and embark on the most extensive campaign of civil disobedience in US history.