The documentary follows a group of 17-year-old boys who play politics over the course of seven days
Held annually across the US, Boys State is a summer camp like no other. Attended by a rigorously selected group of 17-year-old boys, the week-long event simulates state elections, providing precocious teens the opportunity to play politics and build their own government from the ground up.
For vérité documentary-makers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, it represented an ideal prism through which to investigate the health of American politics for their latest film,. “This was an effort on a personal level to understand the political division and paralysis of our country,” explains Moss. “Our seeming inability to actually talk and work constructively with people whose politics are different than our own.
Rounding off a breathless week of events in the Texas State Capitol are the gubernatorial elections. After a defiant campaign, in which he has ridden out a smear campaign suggesting he is anti-gun, the irrepressible Garza loses to Eddy Proietti Conti, another second-generation migrant with Gap catalogue good looks and a debating style that draws comparisons with Ben Shapiro. The result feels portentous, a distinctly un-Hollywood ending in which populism triumphs over policy.
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