Biography Dox

Gumbo Coalition

Barbara Kopple
Screening time  
30.03. / Thursday, 15:30 - 17:30 Theatre 1  

Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple follows two renowned warriors for equal rights and social justice: Marc Morial and Janet Murguía. They join forces in the battle against racism and seek to empower African American and Latino American communities through three turbulent years in America. The film takes us on an intimate — and sometimes humorous — journey into their lives, homes and the family histories that motivate their mission to achieve a more just and equitable country. In her characteristic cinema verité style, Kopple follows this relentless duo in an extremely turbulent period in US history, encompassing the global pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter movement, elections, and the storming of the Capitol.

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Barbara Kopple

Barbara Kopple (1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She has won two Academy Awards, the first in 1977 for Harlan County, USA, about a Kentucky miners' strike, and the second in 1991 for American Dream, the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota. She is the first woman to have won twice in the Oscar's Best Documentary category. Kopple's documentaries are in the style of cinema vérité and her work is often politically driven. She has made several films on U.S. labor issues, as well as worker's unions, and has been a longtime advocate for the American labor movement. Many of her documentaries revolve around political subject matters, but her more recent work has taken a shift towards music documentary and celebrity portraiture. For her documentaries, Kopple works in small crews of two to five, almost always acting as her own sound operator.

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Gumbo Coalition

USA
2022, 108'

Directed by:
Barbara Kopple

Cinematography:
Jim Ball, Asad Faruqi, Gabriella Garcia-Prado, Gary Griffin, Thomas Kaufman, Bradley Rayford

Edited by:
Hannes Hosp, Rob Kuhns

Producers:
David Cassidy, Williams Cole, Barbara Kopple, Ray Nowosielski

Festivals & Awards:

DOC NYC (2022), IDFA (2022)