UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (THE 2004 CAMPAIGN EDITION) International Documentary Competition

In the two years since the 2000 elections, events both staggering and banal have hazed the nation’s memories of mayhem when Al Gore and George W. Bush waged their second war for the presidency.

As a result, the political drama that should have never been forgotten has already slipped away from American consciousness. Joan Sekler and Richard Ray Perez’s rabble-rousing UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 ELECTION . slices open the old battle scars with its concise account of how misleading ballots, hired guns and political racism fused together to change the course of history. The advantage of time allows Sekler and Perez to bypass the confu. sion of conflicting biases and focus directly on the bitter facts, as they examine exactly how Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush and the rest of the Florida government tinkered with voter registration records to the Republicans’ advantage.

UNPRECEDENTED is more than a visual history of political spin and shame, it’s a call to arms for all Americans concerned with the legality and fairness of our voting system.