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Monday, June 4th Varsity Documentary- Donations Accepted to Save KDRT!
"KPFA On The Air" Documentary Screening at Varsity on June 4th. 7:00pm. Free, with donations going to Save KDRT.
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Community Radio Documentary- Free!
Time: 7:00 PM Location:VarsityCommunity Radio Documentary- Free!
[delete] Time: 7:00 PM Location: Varsity
June 4, 2007 at 7PM Varsity Theater in Downtown Davis
Acclaimed documentary film: KPFA ON THE AIR
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
Donations Accepted for Helping to Save KDRT!
Come meet the co-producer/writer of the film, enjoy the film and discover initiatives around documentary film and community radio here in Davis.
KPFA ON THE AIR pays tribute to the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world, KPFA radio. Novelist Alice Walker narrates the vibrant and stormy history of the first listener-sponsored radio station. KPFA ON THE AIR is a case study of the pitfalls and possibilities confronting any experiment in media democracy. KPFA grew out of the conviction of Lew Hill and a small group of fellow World War II pacifists that the best hope for peace in the dawning nuclear age was open dialogue between people with different points of view. KPFA ON THE AIR recounts how KPFA became a voice for the radical movements of the 1960s. It surveys the station’s spirited coverage of such events as the Civil Rights Movement, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the campus Anti-War Movement and the rise of the Black Panther Party.
Also Present: Filmmaker / Coproducer / Writer Sharon Wood
Sharon Wood’s documentary writing credits include three Oscar nominees: TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN: GEORGE SELDES AND THE AMERICAN PRESS, STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART and SUPER CHIEF: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF EARL WARREN. She was cowriter on THE CELLULOID CLOSET (Emmy, Peabody and duPont-Columbia Award winner) and SKIN DEEP. Wood most recently served as writer on PARAGRAPH 175, a feature documentary for HBO on Nazi persecution of homosexuals, and on “Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper,” an American Masters episode for PBS. Wood also coproduced and wrote several episodes of Portrait of America for Turner Broadcasting. She independently produced and directed KHETURNI BAYO: NORTH INDIAN FARM WOMEN and OUTSIDE IN SIGHT: THE MUSIC OF UNITED FRONT.