Living broke in boom times [videorecording] : lessons from the Movement to End Poverty / New Day Films ; Skylight Pictures ; produced and directed by Pamela Yates & Peter Kinoy ; [original DVD content produced and directed by Kathleen Dara Kell].
Format:
[videorecording] :
Edition:
Standard format (4:3).
Publisher:
Distributed by New Day Films,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Interviewees: Willie Baptist, Liz Theoharis, Cheri Honkala. Features content of three films: Takeover (1990), Poverty outlaw (1997), and Outriders (1999). Special features: "Documenting the movement" mini-doc (15 min.); photographic slideshow (7 min.); "Death of a neighborhood" poetry performance by Will Sales (3 min.); resource guide list of weblinks.
Contents:
Takeover -- Poverty outlaw -- Outriders.
Summary:
An examination of activist efforts by and on the behalf of the homeless and destitute, as originally depicted through three films of Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy. Abstracts and excerpts of the films are interspersed with contemporary interviews and commentary from those activists featured in the original films.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.