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The forest for the trees / Chicken & Egg Pictures presents a Redbird Films production ; produced, directed & photographed by Bernadine Mellis.
LIBRA DVD 002 104
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bari, Judi.
- Cunningham, Dennis.
- Cunningham, Dennis, 1939-.
- Earth First! (Organization).
- Women environmentalists--California--Biography.
- Green movement--History--20th century.
- Environmental justice--United States.
- Environmental justice.
- Forest conservation.
- Political participation.
- Green movement.
- Environmentalists.
- Environmentalism--Political aspects.
- Environmentalism.
- History.
- Women environmentalists.
- United States.
- Environmental policy--United States.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmentalism--Political aspects--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Environmentalists--California--Biography.
- Green movement--California--Citizen participation.
- Forest conservation--California, Northern--Citizen participation.
- Northern California.
- California.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, 2005.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "On May 29, 1990, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's car was bombed in Oakland, California. Within three hours of the bombing, Bari was accused of transporting the explosives that had nearly killed her. Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and soon labeled a terrorist in the national media. The charges were later dropped. For the next twelve years, Bari and civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham would pursue a federal civil rights suit against the FBI and the Oakland police department. The Forest for the Trees, directed by Cunningham's daughter, is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Bari's fight, an important instance of the false and damaging association of dissent with crime and terrorism. At the heart of the film is Bari, a folk hero with an electrifying onscreen presence, and the legal battle that few believed she could win" -- From cover.
- Participant:
- Judi Bari, Lisa Bari, Robert Bloom, Darryl Cherney, Dennis Cunningham, Alicia Littletree.
- Credits:
- Executive producers, Judith Helfand and Julia Parker Benello ; editor, Susan Korda ; music, Jodi Berggren ; narrated by Bernadine Mellis.
- Notes:
- Brooklyn Arts Council award for best short documentary ; Audience award for best documentary short at the Santa Cruz Film Festival ; Best student film at Ashland Independent Film Festival ; Best documentary award at the Tiburon Film Festival ; Aspiring filmmaker award at the MountainFilm Festival.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1594583439
- 9781594583438
- OCLC:
- 70201700
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