Photos: The subjects of Election Day documentary ‘11/8/16,’ one year later, answer: How do you feel about the future?

One year after the 2016 presidential election, seven of the people in the documentary “11/8/16” gathered in Los Angeles to meet for the first time. We asked them: “What’s the one word that describes how you feel about the future now?”

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Oct. 27, 2017 5 AM PT

A year after the 2016 presidential election, subjects of the documentary “11/8/16” (in theaters and streaming Nov. 3) gathered in Los Angeles to meet for the first time.

“Maybe I need to regain some of that energy I used to have. I’ve been feeling really uninspired and pessimistic.”

-- Hana Barkowitz, 21, Kent, Ohio

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“But I try to feel hopeful.”

- Sierra Kos, 36, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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“I feel like this is our lot, and we have no choice but to roll up our sleeves and continue trying to perfect the union.”

-- Jeff Deutchman, 34, Los Angeles, producer and curator of “11/8/16”

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“By everything that’s going on in the nation -- most people see negativity, but I don’t at all. I see positivity everywhere that I go.”

-- Adrian Ojeda, 40, Miami

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“I’d like to think there’s hope, but I don’t think we’re going to get out of this -- what we’re doing to the planet.”

-- Boots Wardinski, 74, Vermont

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“Because that’s what we need to do, we need to resist whatever is thrown at us. I’m not talking about violence, but believing that we are important, especially the Dreamers – that a piece of paper does not determine whether we belong here or not.”

-- Jesus Ruiz, 31, San Jose

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