Barbara Kopple’s Doc About Racial Justice – ‘Gumbo Coalition’ Trailer
by Alex Billington
November 1, 2023
Source: YouTube
In the fight for justice, togetherness is our strength.” Max has revealed the official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film titled Gumbo Coalition, the latest doc feature made by the award-winning producer / filmmaker Barbara Kopple. It originally premiered at DOC NYC and IDFA last year. The film follows two renowned warriors for equal rights and social justice in America. They are: Marc Morial, former Mayor of New Orleans and President of the National Urban League, and Janet Murguía, President of UnidosUS, an advocacy organization for the country’s Latino community. They join forces in the battle against racism in a doc about the perseverance required to create real change. Kopple follows this tireless & relentless duo in an extremely turbulent period in US history, encompassing the turbulent politics after the 2016 election, a shooting motivated by racism in El Paso, the pandemic, and the death of George Floyd, as well as the Black Lives Matter movement, elections, and the storming of the Capitol. An optimistic film about real politicians.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Barbara Kopple’s Gumbo Coalition, direct from YouTube:
Driven by a mutual determination not to be “the generation that allows progress to slip,” national social justice leaders Marc Morial of National Urban League and Janet Murguía of UnidosUS join forces to fight structural racism amid a troubling resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era. Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple takes a vérité approach to examine the experiences that have shaped both Morial and Murguía into the leaders of their diverse African American and Latinx American communities as they navigate the complex arc of racial justice in the pandemic years. Gumbo Coalition is directed by the acclaimed American producer / filmmaker Barbara Kopple, director of many great doc films previously including Harlan County U.S.A., Wild Man Blues, Woodstock ’94, My Generation, Shut Up & Sing, A Force of Nature, Running from Crazy, Miss Sharon Jones!, This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, A Murder in Mansfield, New Homeland, and Desert One most recently. Produced by David Cassidy, Williams Cole, Barbara Kopple, and Ray Nowosielski. This initially premiered at the 2022 DOC NYC Film Festival last year. HBO will release the Gumbo Coalition doc streaming on Max starting November 6th, 2023 this fall.