Slay the Dragon Screening
Open to everyone!
Join us for the launch of Democracy on Screen — a film series presented as part of the Ford School’s Resilient Democracies initiative. This series celebrates the role of storytelling and creative expression in shaping, challenging, and expanding our understanding of democracy and civic empowerment. Through powerful films, we’ll explore how everyday people and grassroots movements drive change, amplify marginalized voices, and reimagine what democracy can be.
Slay the Dragon is a 2019 documentary film directed by Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance about the history and destructive impact of partisan gerrymandering in the United States and the grassroots efforts to fight against it. The film highlights how gerrymandering—the manipulation of voting district maps to give one party an unfair advantage—has become an extreme threat to American democracy. It explores how a well-funded, coordinated initiative following the 2008 election used data analytics to redraw district lines with extreme precision, cementing a partisan advantage in many states for years to come.