Welcome to Leith
Welcome to Leith, a forgotten settlement wedged between Midwestern pastures and oil fields. The streets have never seen pavement, but the town’s residents, population 24, love the city’s size and distance from the outside world. A new neighbor is set to move in to one of the empty houses. Just one thing disturbs the town’s idyllic peace: the new resident happens to be one of America’s leading neo-Nazis and the residents reject his ambitious plans to turn Leith into a white power capital. Directors Nichols and Walker do not stick to a chronology of events in their portrayal of this conflict. Akin to Errol Morris, the directorial duo serves audiences a documentary thriller with a pinch of Western that you’ll watch on the edge of your seat. IndieWire describes the film as a “portrait of First Amendment rights pushed to their extremes.”In Welcome to Leith, Bill of Rights protections - freedom of speech, religion and assembly - are paradoxically twisted into tools of oppression.
Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker
Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker make for a nearly self-contained film studio. Nichols is a director, cinematographer, producer and sometime editor. Walker is primarily an editor, but also a director and producer, who sometimes does the filming. Both hail from Florida, but live in Brooklyn, where they run No Weather Productions specializing in documentary films.
Filmography
2010 The Man Behind the Courtain
2012 Bklyn Flex
2013 Flex Is Kings
2014 Delivery
2015 Witajcie w Leith / Welcome to Leith
Cast & Crew
