In the crime-ravaged city of Stockton, one 22-year-old wanted to make a difference. Watch an inspiring exclusive clip from "True Son," which follows Stanford graduate Michael Tubbs’ campaign for Stockton, CA city council in a year of financial ruin and a rising homicide rate. Born in Stockton to a teen mother and jailed father, Michael rallies the youth of Stockton to help. "True Son" chronicles that journey to win a seat on city council and reinvent Stockton. Village Voice says that this Tribeca doc, directed by Kevin Gordon, "manages to be buoyant even as its setting, Stockton, California, sinks around it." It opens in NY on 10/31 and in La on 11/7. Trailer is here.
- 10/30/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
How can it cost $100,000 to get to some 30,000 votes — in the poorest district of a town so broke its city hall got foreclosed on? That's one of the many dispiriting questions posed and answered by True Son, a political-campaign doc that manages to be buoyant even as its setting — Stockton, California — sinks around it. Acting on dorm-room inspiration, cheery local 22-year-old Michael Tubbs heads home to Stockton after finishing his studies at Stanford and declares his intent to run for city council in the sixth district. His candidacy is at first an uphill battle, thanks to his inexperience, his lack of a campaign staff, and Stockton's systemic disenfranchisement of poor and minority voters: Council seats in all districts are voted on by the entire cit...
- 10/29/2014
- Village Voice
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