| A DOUBLE LIFE (84 min) France/US MONDAY 10/21, 4:40 PM (SESSION 10) |
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A Double Life unveils the gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971. Forced into a life on the run, Bingham spends 13 years underground, eluding capture while fiercely determined to clear his name.
Biography:
Catherine Masud is an award-winning filmmaker with over 25 years of experience in producing, directing, writing and editing, working in both documentary and fictional genres. She produced, co-wrote, and edited the acclaimed feature The Clay Bird, which won the International Critics' Prize at Cannes. She also co-directed and edited the feature-length documentaries Song of Freedom and Words of Freedom, both groundbreaking films in Bangladesh, which treated the 1971 Liberation War and its aftermath. Due to the sensitivity of their subject matter, her films were often censored or banned in Bangladesh, but they went on to screen at major festivals, were theatrically released internationally, and broadcast on major networks in many countries.
Abby Ginzberg is a Peabody award-winning director who has been producing compelling documentaries about race and social justice for over 30 years. Her most recent film, Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power is an intimate, compelling film about Rep. Barbara Lee, who is best known for her lone NO vote against the use of military force following the 9/11 attacks and has spent the last 23 years in Congress fighting for peace, justice and equality. Waging Change, a documentary about the challenges faced by tipped servers, forced to rely on their tips and the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour. And Then They Came for Us, about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Muslim travel ban. She co-produced and co-directed Agents of Change, about the Black student movement of the late 1960’s on college campuses. Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa won a 2015 Peabody award and has screened at film festivals around the world, winning four audience awards. Abby was the Consulting Producer on The Barber of Birmingham, was nominated for an Oscar®
Contact Information:
e: abbyginzberg@gmail.com
w: https://www.doublelifemovie.com/
