MIGHT TIMES: THE CHILDREN’S MARCH, HOME OF THE BRAVE Screening
Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston’s 2004 Academy Award winning short documentary Mighty Times: The Children’s March (right) and the documentary feature Home of the Brave will be screened as part of the 2006 "Contemporary Documentary" series presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy Foundation, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
The screenings, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus, are free and open to the public.
Set in 1963, Mighty Times: The Children’s March focuses on the organized acts of civil disobedience effected by five thousand black children in Birmingham, Alabama. Eventually, they brought down the white racist establishment.
Directed by Paola di Florio and produced by [...]
by Andre Soares | January 25, 2006
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Tags: Bobby Houston, Documentaries, Home of the Brave, Los Angeles Screenings, Mighty Times: The Children's March, Nancy Dickenson, Paola di Florio, Political Movies, Robert Hudson, Viola Liuzzo
Oscar 2005: Documentary Shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday, Nov. 17, a list of twelve semi-finalists for the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. The twelve films were chosen by the Academy’s documentary branch, which also will select the five final nominees.
They are:
Born into Brothels, about the children of Calcutta prostitutes;
Home of the Brave, the story of murdered civil-rights activist Viola Liuzzo;
the biography Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train;
Academy Award-winner Jessica Yu’s In the Realms of the Unreal, a portrait of artist and janitor Henry Darger;
Sundance Film Festival opener Riding Giants, a documentary about surfing;
The Ritchie Boys, the story of German Jews who were trained as an [...]