Director: Sharon Liese
Producers: Sharon Liese, Sasha Alpert, Paul Matyasovsky

Description:

What begins as a shocking small-town incident quickly spirals into a national story, exposing how corruption, politics and decades-long tensions turned a quaint Kansas community into a battleground over the First and Fourth Amendments. Equal parts hilarious and horrifying, the film unfolds in real time through police body-cam and surveillance footage, revealing the raid's chaos and the devastating personal toll on the newsroom, including the tragic death of its ninety-eight-year-old co-owner.

Biography:

Sharon Liese is an Emmy Award-winning director and producer. Her film, The Flagmakers, won the Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary and was Oscar shortlisted. Her film, Parker, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Transhood won the audience award at AFI and The Gnomist premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Other films include Fight for the First and Selfie. Sharon has also directed documentary series for TV: Pink Collar Crimes, High School Confidential, as well as served as EP and show runner for series on Discovery, MTV, OWN and Lifetime. She recently directed and executive produced Let Us Prey, a four-part series on Discovery ID and Max.

Sasha Alpert has a proven track record in independent producing as well as projects commissioned by major networks. She created from the ground up two award-winning divisions, won three Emmys and garnered multiple nominations. Alpert produced Autism: The Sequel, which revisits the subjects of Autism: The Musical. She produced Transhood, which won the audience award at AFI Festival. Prior to that, she produced They Call Us Monsters and Valentine Road.

Paul Matyasovsky is a producer with over fifteen years of experience in non-fiction storytelling. Paul has produced twenty seasons of National Geographic’s unscripted series Wicked Tuna and its spin off, Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks, as well as other docu-reality hits like Ghost Hunters, Fast & Loud and Stone Cold Takes on America. He also co-produced the documentary, The House In Between, about unexplained phenomena in a small Mississippi town and consulted on Sharon Liese’s film Parker.

Contact Information:

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