February 26, Friday, 7pm
Screening: “SACCO AND VANZETTI”
Talkback with director Peter Miller
@Revoultion Books: 146 W. 26th Street between 6th & 7th Ave.
Sacco and Vanzetti is an award-winning documentary on the case of two Italian-born anarchists, accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. The first major documentary film about this landmark story.
Peter Miller directed and produced Sacco and Vanzetti (released nationally in theaters in 2007); A Class Apart, which aired on the PBS series American Experience; and The Internationale, shown on PBS and screened at over thirty film festivals. He has been a producer on numerous documentaries by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, including PBS series The War and Jazz, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Frank Lloyd Wright. Peter has also been a producer on The Uprising of ’34, Passin’ It On, and the Academy Award-winning American Dream. He is currently directing and producing a new documentary, Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story.
Part of the Revolution Books series, “2-4 Friday Films” – films that matter every 2dn and 4th Fridays.
