Calico Rebellion: The Anti-Rent War and the Second American Revolution

In the lush woods of New York State's Catskill Mountains, a mythical memory lives on. Of a time whenmen ? armed with rifles and pitchforks, disguised in eerie masks and gowns ? descended from bucolichills to stage the Anti-Rent War, or the "Second American Revolution" as they called it.

That farmers'uprising 200 years ago changed the course of American history and paved the way to the creation ofAbraham Lincoln's Republican Party.Today, although largely forgotten, the historic uprising lives on through direct descendants of thoserebellious farmers, through their stories, songs, and the eerie costumes preserved since the 1840s.CALICO REBELLION is a cinematic journey into small town America, its idealism and the violence thatpercolates just beneath the surface.

The film explores themes of land, belonging, and the historicalidentity of the people who continue to change the political landscape of their country.