This is a story about Faith Petric, a San Francisco-based political radical, musical organizer, and joyous performer who united folk music and activism through almost a century of American social movements. Historical footage provides context for a life in which Faith Petric was not abstractly affected by world events but chose to make her mark upon them – from her log-cabin origins to political radicalization during the Great Depression; from her work as a Rosie the Riveter and participant in the first Greenwich Village folk revival in the 1940s to her post-war life as a single working mother in San Francisco; and from marching in Selma in 1965 to reinventing herself as a post-retirement troubadour.
Biography:
Christie Herring is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a strong interest in social justice. Her film The Campaign, following the grassroots fight for marriage equality, was funded by ITVS and broadcast on public TV. Recent work includes: A Town Called Victoria, Silent Beauty, North by Current, Death Is Our Business, The Big Scary “S” Word, Bias, The Point of No Return, and Code: Debugging the Gender Gap. Her research includes years as a Project Director at the Harvard School of Public Health and 15 years of visual and factual research for books and documentaries AskNot, The Supreme Court, The Hidden Dimension, and The Massie Affair, Beauty in a Jar: The History of the Cosmetics Industry for A&E; Gold: A History of San Francisco for the History Channel, and six films for National Geographic Television.
Estelle Freedman has taught at Stanford, where she helped establish and has directed the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her ten books include two award-winning studies of the history of women's prisons, the survey No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women, and the multiple award-winning study Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation. Freedman is also the co-author (with John D’Emilio) of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America and the editor of The Essential Feminist Reader. Her major research grants include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
