LEO HURWITZ: FORGOTTEN MASTER with Tom Hurwitz at CINE SALON BEYOND Online
Emmy Award cinematographer Tom Hurwitz ASC will introduce the pioneer American social documentary films of his father Leo Hurwitz with a screening of STRANGE VICTORY (1948).
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FILMS: Strange Victory (1948, 75 mins) by Leo Hurwitz with selection of short films and discussion. TRT 120 mins.
BIO: Leo Hurwitz (1909-1991) worked with committed filmmakers in the 1930’s New York including Paul Strand, his partner in several films. Under appreciated due to blacklisting in the 1950s, Hurwitz directed a lifetime of influential films.
BIO: Tom Hurwitz, winner of two Emmy awards is a cameraman and director of documentaries, and one of the first documentarian members of the American Society of Cinematographers and a founder of the Social Documentary Graduate Program, School of Visual Arts.
LINKS: https://www.docnyc.net/film/can-you-bring-it-bill-t-jones-and-d-man-in-the-waters/
CO-SPONSORS: AVA Gallery and Art Center, CATV, Department of Film and Media Studies Dartmouth College, Filmmakers Showcase, Howe Library, Jones Media Center - Dartmouth Library, Miami Beach Cinema Interactive Archive, VTIFF - Vermont International Film Foundation.