NO TIME TO FAIL: Salem Film Festival

2020 is the year Americans discovered the existence of the elections administrator. Once invisible to the general public, these civil servants are central characters in an ongoing public debate about the integrity of our democracy. With unprecedented access to its frontlines, NO TIME TO FAIL is a verité film that tells the story of election officials across the state of Rhode Island. Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President and the deadly threat of a global pandemic, these public servants worked around the clock to secure the vote for their community. This film is an invitation to the American electorate to meet the people whose job it is to uphold the scaffolding of our republic and protect free and fair elections in what emerges as an unprecedented voting adventure in one of the most significant elections in US history.

Co-Director Margo Guernsey directed COUNCILWOMAN, which screened at Salem Film Fest in 2019. Co-Director Sara Archambault produced COMMUNITY PATROL, which screened at Salem Film Fest in 2018.