 American
Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver
Click here for the American Idealist Movie Website
Premiered nationally on PBS on January 21, 2008
In the shadow of the war in Vietnam and assassinations and rebellion at home, Sargent Shriver launched a string of social inventions that touched more lives than those of any leader since Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Shriver opened pathways to civic involvment--Peace Corps, Head Start, VISTA, and Legal Services-- for a generation of youthful volunteers to change their country. Largely unknown today, the story of "Sarge" Shriver will inspire viewers with its moving illustration of the difference leaders can make when they see America as an act of the imagination and look to the young to shape it."
Shriver’s
biography | American Idealist: Sargent Shriver (An LA Times editorial) | The
Shriver Center
Bruce's WBEZ public radio interview | The Student Campaign for Public Service
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Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and his Legacy
Narrated by Alec Baldwin. Produced by Chicago Video
Project and Media Process Educational Films. 1999.
A gripping story about how ordinary people can become forces
for change. The documentary portrays a slice of community
organizing history by revisiting Saul Alinsky’s pioneering
organizing work with labor, civil rights, and religious leaders,
and looking at how people use his methods today.
 “The
film shows the excitement of people achieving success through
organizing. It’s a universal message and applicable
to all kinds of organizing.”
--paul booth, american federation of state,
county, and municipal employees (AFSCME)
“A powerful and revelatory documentary
on one of the pioneers of grassroots organizing…It
could never be more timely than today.”
--studs terkel
Best Documentary, 1999 Philadelphia International Film
Festival
Special Jury Award, USA Film Festival
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Place to Live: Chicago’s Affordable Housing Crisis
Produced by Chicago Video Project for WTTW in
Chicago. 2002.
2002 Midwest Emmy Award winner
The two-hour commute has become a familiar part of life
for hundreds of thousands of Chicago’s workers because
low-wage jobs are in one part of the metropolitan region
and affordable housing is in the other This television documentary
examines the region’s jobs/housing mismatch: how it
came about, its economic impact, and the hardships faced
by low-income workers caught in a growing housing crisis.
“…a shining example…of
taking a serious local issue that’s been underplayed
by commercial media and giving it the attention it deserves.”
--chicago sun-times
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 Access Denied: The Roots and Causes
of Racial Isolation ( Working
title )
Pre-production.
This feature-length documentary will examine the history of race and housing
in Chicago. Throughout the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s, discriminatory
public policy and racially motivated violence shaped Chicago into one of the
most segregated cities in the United States; while whites fled to the suburbs,
Chicago’s blacks became increasingly confined to ghettoes in the inner
city. The video will show how this history of segregation has led to many of
the problems facing Chicago and other American cities today: poverty, poor
schools, few job opportunities, and a lack of affordable housing.
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