September 09 Series

CRUZ REYNOSO:

To attend, please RSVP to roughcutsrsvp@yahoo.com before noon on Wednesday, September 9

In 1982, Cruz Reynoso, the son of farm workers, became the first Latino California Supreme Court Justice. “Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice” follows Reynoso's extraordinary life, from his childhood growing up in La Habra, California; to his heroic tenure as the director of the California Rural Legal Assistance; to his five years as Associate Justice; to the Presidential Medal of Freedom he received in 2000. Abby Ginzberg’s luminous film reveals the life of a man devoted to eradicating discrimination and inequality at all levels of society.

Moderator - Jessie Deeter

Jessie Deeter is a veteran documentary filmmaker and journalist and the Producer of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” She is currently producing “Revenge of the Electric Car,” and she recently co-produced “Tapped,” a feature documentary about bottled water that is currently screening in film festivals across the country. She is also putting the final touches on a short documentary about breast cancer survivors in the United Arab Emirates.

Rough Cuts is a series of work-in-progress documentary screenings that are produced every other month at the LAB, a non-profit gallery/performance space in the Mission. For each evening, we screen one rough cut of a feature-length documentary and then moderate a conversation about the film. These post-screening discussions are designed to give the filmmaker a better, more objective sense of what is working and not working with his/her film, with particular attention paid to improving the film’s structure and narrative clarity. We hope that the series also provides a welcome space for local filmmakers, film professionals, and fans of documentary film to meet and talk.

For questions about Rough Cuts, email Chris Holbrook at cholbrooke@yahoo.com

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