GOT DOCS? LAFCO’s “Behind the Wheel”

As politicians stand up and promise "change" to the nation, people with a whole lot less power than the politicians are out there actually making change. As Peter Linebaugh comments in the film you are about to watch, "We can’t wait around any longer for the wheel of history to turn – we are the wheel of history."

Living together in a converted school bus, a group of artists, filmmakers, and musicians set out to fill in our national narrative. They ended up with a road movie like no other, featuring Dead Prez, Oliver Stone, guerilla poster artist Robbie Conal, and Hurricane Katrina survivors of New Orleans’ 9th Ward. The film is Behind The Wheel, directed by Tao Ruspoli, James Wade, and Cody Lucich, and it’s this week’s GOT DOCS selection.

The LAFCO (Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative) crew search for, and find, pockets of change from Venice Beach to Brooklyn, New York, through the Southwestern desert to the Deep South. Behind the Wheel premiers on October 2nd at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles as part of the Artivists Film Festival. Catch up with the film at LAFCO.

If you’re a documentary filmmaker with a project for GOT DOCS?, please drop us a line! grittv at grittv.org – put GOT DOCS? in the subject line. We want to see your work!