Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Participant Productions, the same studio that heralded An Inconvenient Truth into theaters returns with an insider’s look into former president Jimmy Carter’s book tour as seen through the eyes of director Jonathan Demme. Using an experimental approach, the camera follows the promotional tour and subsequent reaction to the ex-head of state’s controversial tome Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which theorizes a Middle East peace solution and how Israel’s staunch stance has negatively effected the region., Oscar-winner Jonathan Demme (“The Silence of the Lambs”) directed this intimate portrait of former president Jimmy Carter, chronicling the publicity tour to promote his controversial book about the Middle East, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”