Wide Lens Film Series: Nine From Little Rock, Harlan County USA February 1, 2007

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Wide Lens: Oscar Documentaries

6:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: "Documentary Film in Today's Culture" (Sam Green, Barbara Kopple, Lourdes Portillo, Jay Rosenblatt, Kristine Samuelson). This panel of filmmakers discusses the role of documentaries in contemporary culture, examining the power and responsibility wielded by this art form, as well as the ethical questions it raises. A reception immediately follows. Free with ticket purchase for the 8:30pm screening or Museum admission.

8:30 p.m. Film Screenings
Nine from Little Rock, Charles Guggenheim, 1964, 21 min.
Harlan County, U.S.A., Barbara Kopple, 1976, 103 min.

Barbara Kopple in attendance.

Go behind the scenes of two pivotal civil rights struggles in the American South. Guggenheim revisits the African American students at the center of the 1957 effort to integrate Arkansas' public schools, while Kopple chronicles the violent 1973 coal miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Phyllis Wattis Theater

About "Wide Lens: Oscar Documentaries":
SFMOMA, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and California College of the Arts copresent a series of Academy Award-nominated and -winning documentaries from the last 40 years. Curated by Rob Epstein, chair of graduate film at CCA, the series commences with a panel discussion on documentary film in public culture.

$7 general; $5 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. Does not include Museum admission.

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Official Website: http://www.sfmoma.org/calendar/calendar_event.asp?eventid=1012&etype=2&func=repeat