The Blood is at the Doorstep is a story about one family’s quest for answers, justice, and reform
after Dontre Hamilton is shot 14 times and killed by a Milwaukee Police Officer responding to a
non-emergency wellness check.
Filmed over the course of three years in the direct aftermath of Dontre's death, this
intimate verite documentary follows his family as they channel their grief into
community organizing in an attempt to reset the narrative. Offering a painfully
realistic glimpse inside a movement born out of tragedy in what the Hollywood
Reporter calls "a clear-eyed film that finds hope within terrible circumstances, and strength
within heartbreak."
RECENT PRESS:
New York Times - Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism: nytimes.com/2017/08/25/movies/race-police-killings-documentaries.html
IDA Documentary Magazine - Whose Story? Five Doc Filmmakers on (avoiding) Extractive Filmmaking: documentary.org/feature/whose-story-five-doc-makers-avoiding-extractive-filmmaking
REVIEWS:
The Hollywood Reporter: Critics Pick, Best of SXSW: hollywoodreporter.com/lists/critics-picks-best-sxsw-2017-986934
Shadow & Act: "The scene that follows with the mothers encompasses all that “The Blood is at The Doorstep” is: it’s heartbreaking, looking upon people who will not see justice, whose loved ones will never return. And it’s simultaneously astounding to see the strength and the genius of people who insist on coming together, continuing to love and support each other in a world where such acts put them at such great risk."
shadowandact.com/2017/03/13/sxsw-review-the-fight-for-black-lives-gets-personal-in-the-blood-is-at-the-doorstep/
The Hollywood Reporter: "An urgent report from the frontlines of an American Crisis": hollywoodreporter.com/review/blood-is-at-doorstep-983836
Dir: Erik Ljung
Editor: Michael T. Vollmann
Executive Producer: Barry Poltermann
SOCIAL MEDIA:
facebook.com/thebloodisatthedoorstep
twitter.com/bloodatdoorstep
instagram.com/bloodatdoorstep/
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