BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT
60 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY FILM
Written by Kwyn Bader and Dick Lehr
Produced by NORTHERN LIGHT PRODUCTIONS
for INDEPENDENT LENS
Production Grant from the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
for broadcast on WNET 13 and PBS stations nationwide
2017
Birth of a Movement, a documentary on which Kwyn shares writing credit with Edgar Award Winner and Pulitzer nominated Dick Lehr, will have its broadcast premiere Feb 6, 2017 on Independent Lens/PBS!
There are also premiere screenings - open to the public - in Boston and NYC on Jan 30 and 31st, respectively.
The doc tells the story of African-American newspaper editor William Monroe Trotter's 1915 battle against America's first blockbuster movie - D.W. Griffith's infamous The Birth of a Nation.
The doc was produced and directed by Bestor Cram and Susan Gray at NLP in Boston, is exec produced by Sam Pollard and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (who is also interviewed in the film) and is narrated by the always great Danny Glover.
Spike Lee and Reggie Hudlin appear in the film, as does Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky who provided the score. It also includes tremendous insights from scholars like Yale's David Blight and Harvard's Vince Brown who really bring the smarts.
Clips and excerpts will post after the film has aired.
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