Town Hall
ABOUT
An inside look into the lives of two Tea Party activists from Pennsylvania as they fight to preserve their vision of America. More than a political treatise, Town Hall is a tone poem that paints a portrait of those who fear being left behind by a nation's transition.
Jamila Wignot is an award-winning Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her body of work includes AILEY (Sundance '21); the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS; TOWN HALL a feature-length co-production with ITVS about the Tea Party movement; and for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE the Peabody Award-winning "Triangle Fire" and Emmy-nominated "Walt Whitman." Wignot’s producing credits include Sierra Pettengill’s RIOTSVILLE, USA (Sundance '22); “Hands On,” for The New York Times FX/Hulu series The Weekly; W. Kamau Bell’s directorial debut BRING THE PAIN: THE DOCUMENTARY; and the narrative A STRAY (SXSW ’16) by Sundance Award-winning director Musa Syeed. She is currently directing and co-producing a HBO docuseries about Memphis-based soul music label Stax Records.
Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and archivist.
CREDITS
Sierra Pettengill