12th and Delaware

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, the filmmaking team behind the 2006 Oscar-nominated doc Jesus Camp, take us on another controversial journey with 12TH & DELAWARE.

Description from Sundance 2010 catalogue:

On an unassuming corner in Fort Pierce, Florida, it’s easy to miss the insidious war that’s raging. But on each side of 12TH AND DELAWARE, soldiers stand locked in a passionate battle. On one side of the street sits an abortion clinic. On the other, a pro-life outfit often mistaken for the clinic it seeks to shut down.

Using skillful cinema-vérité observation that allows us to draw our own conclusions, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, the directors of Jesus Camp, expose the molten core of America’s most intractable conflict. As the pro-life volunteers paint a terrifying portrait of abortion to their clients, across the street, the staff members at the clinic fear for their doctors’ lives and fiercely protect the right of their clients to choose. Shot in the year when abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was murdered in his church, the film makes these fears palpable. Meanwhile, women in need become pawns in a vicious ideological war with no end in sight.

• Country USA
• Rating NR
• Year 2010
• Running Time 90 minutes
• Director Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady

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