March 5, 2013: SCOUTS HONOR & UNION MAIDS
UNION MAIDS Directed by Jim Klein: 50 minutes, 1976, Documentary March 5, 2013 / 7:30 pm / St. John School of the Arts, Cruz Bay Sitdowns, scabs, goon squads, unemployment, hunger marches, red baiting and finally, the energetic birth of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO): the 1930s were a landmark period for the American labor movement. Union Maids is the story of three women who lived it and make history come alive today. Oscar-nominated Union Maids is one of the earliest oral history documentaries. Read more about the film Union Maids here. SCOUT’S HONOR Directed by Tom Shepard: 60 minutes, 2001, Documentary March 5, 2013 / 7:30 pm / St. John School of the Arts, Cruz Bay Scout’s Honor traces the conflict between the anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America and the broad-based movement by many of its members to overturn them. The story is told predominantly through the experiences of a 13-year old boy and a 70-year-old man — both heterosexual, both dedicated to the Scouts, and both determined to change the course of scouting history. Scout’s Honor won the Audience Award for Best Documentary and Freedom of Expression Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival as well as Grand Prize at the 2001 USA Film Festival and Best Social Issue Documentary by the Council on Family Relations and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Point of View. Read more about the film Scout’s Honor here. JOIN DIRECTORS JIM KLEIN AND TOM SHEPARD FOR A POST-SHOW DISCUSSION ON MARCH 5, 2013! St. John Film Society welcomes visiting filmmaker and New Day cooperative founder, Jim Klein. Jim Klein has been active in the American independent film community since 1969 and today directs, edits, consults, and teaches film at Wright State University. Klein and partner Julia Reichert’s extensive filmography includes Oscar-nominated Union Maids, one of the first oral history films and the film that will be shown on March 5; Growing Up Female, the first documentary about women from a feminist perspective; Methadone: An American Way Of Dealing, the first film to challenge government policies on heroin addiction; and Oscar-nominated Seeing Red, the first documentary film on American Communists. ; Growing Up Female, the first documentary about women from a feminist perspective; Methadone: An American Way Of Dealing, the first film to challenge government policies on heroin addiction; and Oscar-nominated Seeing Red, the first documentary film on American Communists. St. John Film Society welcomes visiting filmmaker and New Day cooperative member, Tom Shepard. Shepard produced and directed Scout’s Honor. The Stanford graduate’s filmography includes Knocking, about Jehovah’s Witnesses and their contributions to medicine and civil liberties; Whiz Kids, about Intel Science Talent Search competitors — a competition Shepard won in 1987; The Grove, about AIDS and the nature of remembrance. Shepard has worked at National Public Radio (NPR) as an editor for Linda Wertheimer, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and co-produced Listening to America, an audio documentary on the history of public radio in America. JOIN US FOR ANOTHER INSPIRING EVENING OF FILM...
