This is a surprising and tender documentary and like all good documentaries, there’s no direction on what to think. The women speak for themselves, and they are treated with dignity, compassion and empathy.

Just announced after film screening Liz Pendleton (chair) @Media_revolution in conversation with Liz Smith film (director) @liz-smith.com

The film offers a fascinating insight into the minds of one woman Yvonne and her ‘patriot’ friends. Four years ago Noelle Cook (writer, ethnographer and researcher ) and Liz Smith (the film’s British Director) set off on a road trip across America with Yvonne.

Yvonne and her patriot friends are MAGA supporters, most of whom were involved in the January 6 2021 storming of the Capitol in Washington DC.

Noelle Cook (aka Tara in the film) initially approached the women as part of an academic study. But she found herself getting involved in their lives. We see plainly, she was sometimes…