Screening is Part of Scalarama Leeds 2025

Acorn Leeds and Poised Peach Cinema are joining forces for this not to be missed screening of The Organiser.

The documentary film looks back at how Wade Rathke, a former anti-war and welfare rights organizer founded the Acorn organization in Little Rock in 1970 and over the next decades shepherded its growth into a national political powerhouse for the poor. His entrepreneurial vision helped build ACORN but internal conflict and external pressures would lead to its tragic downfall.

Undeterred, Rathke is now building new organizations around the world and trying to rebuild at home.

Shot across four continents and with a wealth of archives and interviews with ACORN organizers and community leaders, along with figures like Noam Chomsky and Marshall Ganz, THE ORGANIZER is a film about people who have dedicated their lives to the often hidden, usually messy and always controversial job of building power for the powerless.

Winner of five 'Best Documentary' film festival awards.