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'11/8/16': A Day That Changed America, Through Many Lenses

This documentary, compiled from 16 short films by different directors shot on Election Day 2016, offers "a tightly woven series of close-ups of a diverse, divided populace."
<em>In 11/8/16, </em>18 documentary filmmakers produce 16 short films examining Election Day 2016.

There's one thing curator-producer Jeff Deutchman couldn't have known when he set out to make 11/8/16, a coast-to-coast, dawn-to-midnight look at the most recent U.S. presidential election day. Not who was going to win, but how inescapable the effects of that victory would be.

With Donald Trump at the center of every single day's news cycle, many

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