has indie distributors looking for other political campaign films with progressive candidates facing insurmountable odds against them.
So Gravitas Ventures has picked up the North American rights to Brittany Huckabee’s documentary featureabout a young doctor, Abdul El-Sayed, challenging to become the country's first Muslim governor in Michigan.is planned, just ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election, as well as a simultaneous DVD and Blu-ray disc release.pulls back the curtain and gives audiences a look into what it’s like to run a campaign.
El-Sayed, a former Detroit health commissioner, is a CNN expert on COVID-19, but in 2018 challenged frontrunner and eventual winner Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan's Democratic primary to replace Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. Using exclusive access, Huckabee follows El-Sayed and his underdog campaign team as they seek endorsements from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who both appear in the doc, and battle against Islamophobia and the Michigan political establishment.is produced by Huckabee and Joshua Seftel, with Wajahat Ali as a consulting producer.