SAN FRANCISCO–Screening of FIRST ANGRY MAN at Indiefest

Still from FIRST ANGRY MAN. SAN FRANCISCO–If you ever wondered how the great public ambitions of postwar America collapsed into Reagan era parsimony and the permanent tax revolt, look no farther than Howard Jarvis, whose 1978 ballot initiative, Proposition 13, changed everything in California and beyond. The film unpacks the dramatic campaign, its quirky characters and its enduring consequences.

Featuring lively archival footage and interviews with first- hand witnesses to the events, including Governor Gray Davis, Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz and anti-tax firebrand Grover Norquist, The First Angry Man puts a bracket around the last four decades of American political life, inviting viewers to see our era as an anomaly in American history, at odds with some of our nation’s deepest underpinnings.

Directed by Jason Cohn USA, 2019, 56m. Screening at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 2, 2020. The Roxie Theater 3117 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94103

Purchase tickets here. Co-Presented with the SF Urban Film Festival with a post-screening panel discussion.

This film is supported by California Humanities through a California Documentary Project grant.