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Biography
Rachel Lears is an American independent documentary filmmaker. She is the director of Knock Down the House (2019), a documentary film about four women running for Congress in the 2018 midterms, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2019 and was sold to Netflix for $10 million, releasing on May 1, 2019. Her other documentaries include The Hand That Feeds (2014), about undocumented immigrant workers in a labor dispute with owners at a Manhattan bakery café, and To the End (2022), about climate change.
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Filmography5 titles
Knock Down the House
2019Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Writer
2019Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Writer
Through the Night
2021Additional Camera
2021Additional Camera
The Hand That Feeds
2014Director, Director of Photography
2014Director, Director of Photography
To the End
2022Director, Director of Photography, Writer
2022Director, Director of Photography, Writer
Aggie
2020Director of Photography
2020Director of Photography