The Hand That Feeds
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An undocumented immigrant deli worker sets out to end abuses at a Manhattan bagel shop and winds up making history.
Rachel Lears
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
RACHEL LEARS is a documentary director, producer and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel's most recent feature documentary, KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (Netflix), follows four women who ran insurgent congressional campaigns in 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush. The film won the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar and is nominated for an Emmy in 2020. Her last feature, THE HAND THAT FEEDS (co-directed with Robin Blotnick; PBS), won numerous festival awards and was nominated for an Emmy in 2017.
Robin Blotnick
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
ROBIN BLOTNICK produced and edited the Netflix documentary KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (winner of the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite award at Sundance 2019) which follows four working class women who shook up the 2018 primary elections. His previous work as director and editor includes the award-winning documentaries THE HAND THAT FEEDS (2014, co-directed with Rachel Lears), about a bitter struggle for justice at a New York City bagel shop, and GODS AND KINGS (2012), about masks, magic and media in the Guatemalan highlands. His archival collage CITY OF MOVEMENT is currently playing on infinite loop at the Museum of the City of New York.