DocFest: Steal This Story, Please!
October 18, 2025
This riveting portrait of "Democracy Now!"'s Amy Goodman spotlights journalism's power—and peril—amid rising corporate control and political attacks on the press.
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Saturday, October 18, 2025
For more than three decades, Goodman has reported from the frontlines of global conflicts, natural disasters, and grassroots movements, amplifying voices routinely silenced by commercial media. Steal This Story, Please! follows her journey from the wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi—raised in a tradition of asking hard questions—to an intrepid journalist undeterred by soldiers, riot police, and smear campaigns. Granted rare access behind the scenes of “Democracy Now!,” directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin capture Goodman and her team’s unwavering commitment to provide a vital counterpoint to shrinking newsrooms and media monopolies, to prove that independent reporting remains essential to democracy itself. Urgent, inspiring, and with unexpected humor, the film offers both a celebration of Goodman’s legacy and a stirring reminder of what’s at stake when truth is under siege.
- Director: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
- Principal Cast: Amy Goodman
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 101 min.
- Producer: Karen Ranucci, Caren Spruch, Diana Cohn, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
- Cinematographers: Cliff Charles, Nausheen Dadabhoy, Keith Walker
- Editors: Mona Davis
- Music: Zoe Keating
- Filmography: The Janes (2022), Citizen Koch (2013), Trouble the Water (2008)
- Language: English
- International Sales: Submarine Entertainment