Join Maysles Documentary Center & the directors of the 2019 documentary Slay The Dragon for a Q&A about the film on Saturday, April 18th at 7pm EST. This Q&A is free and open to the public and can be accessed by clicking the above link starting at 6:55pm EST.

A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our democracy. Slay the Dragon follows everyday people as they fight to make their votes matter.

CHRIS DURRANCE (Co-Director) has worked on more than a dozen films for PBS’ “Frontline,” including College Inc., about for-profit education, The Madoff Affair and Return of the Taliban. He has worked all over the world, including Europe, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and China, and is the winner of a Peabody, two Emmys, a duPont-Columbia silver baton and an Overseas Press Club award. He worked with Barak Goodman on Clinton, the four-hour presidential biography for PBS’ “American Experience,” which aired in February 2012. Durrance then developed the series Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies and directed the third and final episode, which aired on PBS in spring 2015. 

BARAK GOODMAN (Co-Director) has become, over the course of 20 years and more than 30 films, one of the most prolific and acclaimed nonfiction filmmakers in America. Bracketed by the Academy Award-nominated Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000) and the Emmy Award®-nominated Sundance hit Oklahoma City (2017), Goodman’s films have explored the greatness, turbulence and moral complexity of American life.