'Running With Beto' looks at Beto O'Rourke's campaign for the Senate in Texas
In April 2017, David Modigliani’s sandlot baseball team, the Texas Playboys, were playing a game in Austin against Los Diablitos de El Paso. The documentary filmmaker was playing first base and got to talking to a lanky center-fielder from the other team, Beto O’Rourke, who’d just declared he was running for the Senate against Ted Cruz.
“It was so important to us that this not be a hagiography, that this not be a puff piece, and to show the full gamut of the human experience of running for office,” Modigliani said. The end result is an admiring portrait of a tech-savvy, skilled retail politician and — almost as crucial, given his loss — the people O’Rourke inspired to get involved in a state known for its abysmal voter turnout. “This is a simmering fire, this is the bed of coals,” says Gay, disappointed but undeterred on election night. “We’re just getting cooking.”
Feferman and Modigliani witnessed firsthand the media frenzy that erupted around O’Rourke, particularly after a video of him defending NFL players’ right to kneel in protest went viral.Shannon Guy with her homemade campaign sign. Gay, 61, is a tough-talking Texan who was inspired to get involved in politics because of veterans’ issues. Her ex-husband was a special forces sniper who struggled with the adjustment to civilian life. She was impressed by O’Rourke’s willingness to own up to mistakes.
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