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2007:
Hair - Let the Sunshine in
The genesis, life and renaissance of HAIR, the most revolutionary musical of its time:
a poetic and explosive condensation
of the spirit of the 60's.
A young troupe makes the social and political meaning
of the musical more relevant than ever,
setting it against the backdrop of the Iraq War.
Featuring actors Keith Carradine, Melba Moore,
Ben Vereen;
directors Milos Forman and Tom O'Horgan;
producer Michael Butler and authors Jim Rado and Galt MacDermot.
2004:
Writer of O
A creative documentary on the hidden author
of the world-famous, erotic novel STORY OF O.
Known for forty years as Pauline Réage,
the author chose at 86 to reveal herself
as Dominique Aury,
a mild-mannered literary editor for Gallimard,
the most prestigious French publishing house.
2002:
September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses
Filmmaker Pola Rapaport was at home, 18 blocks due north of the World Trade Center when the first plane flew directly overhead.
2000:
Family Secret
Filmmaker Pola Rapaport tells the tale of a surprising discovery of an unknown brother, now in his fifties. He was born in war-time Paris and raised in Communist Romania by his mother, a Romanian physician, while his sisters grew up in 1960's America, ignorant of their father's secret.
1998:
Blind Light
In the Villa San Michele on the Italian island of Capri, three characters are overwhelmed by a moment of blinding awareness, when the exterior layers of their own identities suddenly fall away. In a unique blending of genres which unmasks the filmmaking process, the three find their emotional lives re-awakened by the mysterious power of the blinding Mediterranean light that floods the villa. Interweaving through the film are the stories of Diana, a photographer on commercial assignment, Swedish author Axel Munthe, creator of the villa, and the filmmaker herself, as narrator of the story.
Starring Emmy-Award winner Edie Falco of "The Sopranos".
1990:
Broken Meat
A trip along the seamy edges of New York City and a voyage through the consciousness of the mad beat poet Alan Granville. BROKEN MEAT captures Alan's New York, stripped of its glittering surface: a strange, deserted place
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2002:
Guggenheim Fellowship
NYFA Fellowship
2001:
Best Documentary of the Year |
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Hair - Let the Sunshine in, 2007
Writer of O, 2004
September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses, 2002
Family Secret, 2000
Blind Light, 1998
Broken Meat, 1990
All films are available for sale on videotape
to individuals and institutions.
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John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
New York Foundation for the Arts
Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia
Independent
Film Channel
Sundance
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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
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Without exception it is the best HAIR film
I have seen. The editing is outstanding,
cutting in and out of our subjects
of social importance with excellent interviews.
Michael Butler
Producer of HAIR
Not only does this doc (Writer of O)
unmask the author of the scandalous
French erotic novel The Story of O,
but it's also an illuminating examination
of censorship and sexuality.
Rich Cline
Family Secret is weird, whaked up
and wonderfully surreal...
Rapaport's father's last words alone
are worth the price of admission.
Kevin Rafferty
Director, The Atomic Cafe
Blind Light...
is a moving and poetic expose
of an artist's search
for the spiritual
in her life and work.
Andrea Meyer
3rd New-York Women's Fest
Broken Meat:Funky, excellent, neo-beatnik...
tough and funny.
A must see, especially for poets.
Baltimore City Paper
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