Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Lands $10 Million For Movie Deal

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, an avowed socialist, is likely singing hooray for capitalism.

That is because Netflix has just purchased the rights to her story for a whopping $10 million, The New York Post.

Netflix shelled out an eye-popping $10 million for rights to a documentary about young upstarts running for Congress starring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Deadline first reported the amount the streaming giant paid for “Knock Down the House,” a film that followed four women vying for office during the 2018 election cycle.

The website said it was the largest sum ever brokered at a film festival for a documentary.

Of the four contenders, only Ocasio-Cortez won.

The Daily Mail reported more on the story and the awards the movie won.

On Thursday the film won the coveted Sundance Festival Favorite Award, beating out 120 other films screened at the festival.

The film, directed by Rachel Lears, follows 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman elected to Congress, during her campaign for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections.

It also follows the campaign trails of three other progressive female candidates: Cori Bush, Amy Vilela and Paula Jean Swearengin.

Bush is running for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House in the 2020 election. She lost the 2018 primary for the seat.

Vilela was running as a Democratic candidate for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District seat in the House, and lost in the 2018 primary.

Swearengin was a Democratic candidate who ran for West Virginia’s Senate seat and lost in the 2018 primary.

Knock Down the House started out out as a Kickstarter project. The filmmakers raised $28,111 to bring the film to life using the fundraising page.

Nearly every distributor tried to lock down the rights to Knock Down the House including NEON, Focus, Hulu and Amazon, sources told the news outlet.

But Netflix came out on top, splashing out millions.

Amazon did not seem to be a fit for the film as Ocasio-Cortez has been critical of the company’s sweetheart deal to build a headquarters in New York near her 14th District.

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