RIOTSVILLE, USA
2022, 90 MIN
Director & Archival Researcher | Sierra Pettengill Writer | Tobi Haslett Editor | Nels Bangerter
Producers | Sara Archambault & Jamila Wignot Composer | Jace Clayton Narrator | Charlene Modeste
Executive Producers | Charlotte Cook, Sumalee Montano, Grace Lee, Sue Turley, Michael Chow
Premiered at 2022 Sundance Film Festival, NEXT Section
Nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary
Winner, Minneapolis Film Festival, Best Documentary
Winner, Torino Film Festival, Best Documentary
Winner, International Documentary Association, Best Archival Film
Watch / Rent / Buy Magnolia Pictures (USA), Mubi (Canada), Hulu (USA)
Selected Press
“A Theater of State Panic,” Bench Ansfield, New York Review of Books
“Johanna Fateman: Top Ten,” Johanna Fateman, Artforum
“Town and Country,” Leo Goldsmith, Artforum
“Riotsville everywhere, Utopia nowhere” Matene Toure, Brooklyn Rail
“Riotsville, USA Review: A Fake Town to Explore Ongoing Unrest,” Glenn Kenny, New York Times Critics Pick
“Sierra Pettengill’s Transfixing Doc Unveils the Ugly Truth of America’s Riot Police,” Susannah Gruder, Indiewire
“Riotsville, USA — Sierra Pettengill,” Ryan Swen, In Review Online