Storm Lake

Storm Lake is a 2021 documentary film directed by Jerry Risius and Beth Levison. It covers two years at the family-run newspaper The Storm Lake Times in Storm Lake, Iowa, and features various political figures, including Jill Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Chuck Grassley, Amy Klobuchar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang and Julian Castro as well as The Storm Lake Times editors Art, Dolores, John and Mary Cullen. The film won the 2021 Audience Award for best feature at the American Film Institute's AFI DOCS film festival, and was also nominated for a 2021 Peabody Award.