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Dir.: Peter Askin; Prods.: Will Battersby, Tory Tunnell, Alan Klingenstein, David Viola.
Samuel Goldwyn Films

Trumbo is a portrait of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo told through performances of some of his extraordinary letters, period and contemporary interviews and clips from his films. The film illustrates how his unerring belief in the First Amendment and the power of the written word, plus a drink or two, allowed him to fight back after being blacklisted by HUAC. Forced to write on the black market, letter writing became the repository if Trumbo’s extraordinary talents and they serve as a wonderfully entertaining testament to the need fort self-expression, social and political involvement and remaining fallibly human in the face of barbarism.