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#1410 - Original Airdate: Fri, September 25, 2009 at 11pm
DOCUMENTING THE FACE OF AMERICA (Dir. Jeanine Isabel Butler)
It began as a New Deal project to document the scope of poverty during the Great Depression. But under the leadership of Roy Stryker, photographers working for the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration became agents of social change. They created an astonishing archive of photographs that formed a portrait of America, a portrait that many would have preferred not to see. The collection, now preserved in the Library of Congress, is a priceless national legacy, and includes the work of Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and many others. For more about this film go to: www.documentingamerica.org.
Filmmaker Bio
Butler Films brings together an award-winning team of bi-coastal filmmakers Jeanine Isabel Butler and Catherine Butler, who specialize in documentaries fro PBS, The Discovery Channel, TLC and National Geographic Television, as well as independent features for non-profits and theatrical release. "As documentary filmmakers with extensive international broadcast experience, in both long and short formats, our strength is in crafting media that uses the power of positive storytelling, that showcases how every life is a story and a story can change the world." To learn more, visit the filmmaker's web site at www.butlerfilms.tv.
