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After the 2008 election, a secretive, well-funded partisan initiative poured money into state legislative races in key swing states to gain control of their redistricting processes and used high-tech analytics to dramatically skew voting maps based on demographic data. The result is one of the greatest electoral manipulations in U.S. history, one that poses a fundamental threat to our democracy and exacerbates the already polarized atmosphere in Congress and state houses across the country.
Gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing electoral maps to serve the party in power, has been around for centuries. But in today’s hyperpartisan political environment it has been taken to unprecedented extremes, fueled by the elimination of corporate campaign contribution limits and the availability of vast amounts of personal information.
The effects of this audacious plan have continued to bear fruit through the 2018 midterms. But voters, fed up with cynical efforts to sidestep the will of the majority, have begun fighting back. In one example, a grassroots movement led by a young woman with no political experience gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures to put an anti-gerrymandering initiative on the ballot in Michigan.
The new documentary Slay the Dragon shines a light on this timely issue, and follows a handful of citizens’ groups, outraged by what they see as an attack on the core democratic principle that every person’s vote should count equally, as they battle party operatives and an entrenched political establishment to fix a broken system.
 
directed by
BARAK GOODMAN and CHRIS DURRANCE
produced by
BARAK GOODMAN and CHRIS DURRANCE
executive producers
JEFF SKOLL
DIANE WEYERMANN
executive producers
CORALIE CHARRIOL PAUL
WILLIAM VON MUEFFLING
co-producer
GRACE MCNALLY
edited by
SETH BOMSE
music by
GARY LIONELLI
lead assistant editor
YONI TURKIENICZ
associate producer
CHARLOTTE COOLEY
supervising producer
DORIN RAZAM-GRUNFELD
post-production supervisor
STEPHEN ALTOBELLO
archival producer
WYATT STONE
directors of photography
SAM RUSSELL
NICK RAMEY
FABRIZIO COSTANTINI
co-executive producers
DANIEL SIMON
JAMES SIMON
for participant media
DAVID LINDE – CEO
GABRIEL BRAKIN - COO
ELISE PEARLSTEIN - SVP, Documentary Film & TV
DANICE WOODLEY - SVP, Business & Legal Affairs
BRITT CARR - Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs
consultant
DAVID DALEY
additional line producing
STEF GORDON
graphics & animation
for ark media
ANDY CAHILL
colorist
CHRIS RAMEY
sound recording
CAROLS MAEDA
GEOFF GANN
JAY ROUND
JEREMY ZUNK
JOE LEO
LEN SCHMITZ
NEAL GETTINGER
PAUL RUSNAK
ROGER PHENIX
SEAN QUASHNIE
additional cinematography
BUDDY SQUIRES
DARIUS MATHIS
ERICH ROLAND
GEOFF GEORGE
HARVEY ROBINSON
JASON EXEL SUMMERS
JULIO LUZQUIÑOS
KEITH WALKER
KEVIN SHAW
MICHAEL OGNISANTI
MRINAL DESAI
RICK SMITH
SCOTT ALLMANN
SCOTT ANGER
SHLOMO GODDER
STEPHEN MCCARTHY
THOMAS KAUFMAN
GRACE MCNALLY
assistant camera
JARED AMES
grip
DREW LOUGHLIN
assistant editors
JANAH COX
AARON BRUMMER
DAN ERNST
JULIO RAMIREZ
SAM KUN
IAN DWY
for technicolor postworks new york
supervising sound editor & re-recording mixer
CHRISTOPHER KOCH
dialogue editor
ERIC DISTEFANO
sfx editor
MICHAEL ODMARK
sound project manager
CHRISTINE ANDREWS
svp, feature film & sound sales
JAY RUBIN
post-production engineer
ERIK THACKER
assistant line producer
MONA KARRENBACH
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production assistants
EMMANUEL DAVIS
NIJAL SMITH
RENARD DAVIS
CHRISTOPHER SZPUNAR
TYLER BRENNAN
DERRICK WELSBACHER
KATELYN REUTER
ADAM THOMAS
research interns
SOLOMON POLSHEK
JAMES TEMPLE
NICK WEISS
BRYSE CIALLELLA
post-production interns
DYLAN GIUDICE
RACHEL HOWARD
RACHEL LAFOND
JONATHAN LEINER
ALEX RICCIO
ALEXANDER TABET
additional research
GRIFFIN KAISER
legal services provided by
DONALDSON + CALLIF
archival materials courtesy of
ALAMY
ANNABELLE HARLESS
ARTHUR KOHL-RIGGS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTEN HUFFORD
BRIAN ALBERTH
BRIAN RAMSEY/RAMSEY@MODBEE.COM/MODESTO BEE/ZUMA PRESS
BRITTANY GREESON
CHARLES WILLIAMS
CHRIS JANKOWSKI
COMMON CAUSE
COURTNEY SACCO
CRITICAL PAST
DAVE KREISMAN
DAVID KIDD
DOUGLAS POLAND
DUSAN HARMINC
GETTY
JEFF WHEELER/MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/ZUMA PRESS
JIM JORSTAD
KATIE FAHEY
LESLIE AMSTERDAM
M-LIVE
MARGARET DICKSON
MATT JOHNSON
NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL
NBCUNIVERSAL ARCHIVES
ODDBALL FILMS
PETER EARLE
POND5
RUTH GREENWOOD
RYAN GARZA/DETROIT FREE PRESS/ZUMA PRESS
SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
SHUTTERSTOCK
UNRIG THE SYSTEM
WISCONSIN EYE
WNET
WOLFSON ARCHIVES
special thanks to
VOTERS NOT POLITICIANS
THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER
TOM HOFELLER
MARC SOLOMON
MARTIN WAYMIRE
ELIZABETH BATTISTE
RYAN KLEIER
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