Poster design by Joanna Newman and Alexandra Stergiou
THE CANDIDATES
TRT 75 min, 2019
Politics enters puberty when a group of teenagers take part in an elaborate simulation of the 2016 Presidential election.
“The results of the student’s ballot are as surprising as anything that happened on Game of Thrones”
“If you spent the 2016 election season trying to wrap your head around the surreal circus that passed for political campaigning, just imagine actually participating in it while studying for exams. Such was the situation for the students of Townsend Harris High School in Queens, which since 1996 has included in its curriculum an as-close-to-real-life-as-possible Election Simulation. Fortunately, filmmakers Alexandra Stergiou and Lexi Henigman were there to capture it all.”
Credits
Executive Producers: Maxim Pozdorovkin, Gerasimos Petratos
In association with Third Party Films
Directors: Alexandra Stergiou and Lexi Henigman
Producer: Alexandra Stergiou
Editor: Lexi Henigman
Director of Photographer: Joe Bender
Sound Design: Arjun Sheth
Original Music by Tim Bright
Colorist: Ashley Ayarza at Nice Shoes
Screenings and Awards:
DOC NYC 2018 (World Premiere, In-Competition, Nominee: Metropolis Award)
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2019 (In-Competition, Nominee: Best Feature)
Independent Film Festival of Boston 2019 (In-Competition, Nominee: Best Feature Documentary)
SXSW Edu 2020
Available to rent on: Amazon Video, Fuse, The Video Project