BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES (1st America Film Festival, 1992)

This documentary explores the beginnings of the Free Speech Movement in the U.S., beginning with the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings at San Francisco City Hall in May 1960, the development of a counterculture in Berkeley, California in the 1960s, and the establishment of People's Park near the University of California at Berkley in the wake of the 1969 political clashes. Featuring archival footage of Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, Joan Baez, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, Gov. Ronald Reagan and The Grateful Dead, among others. Sundance Film Festival 1990, Audience Award National Society of Film Critics Awards 1990, Best Documentary, 1991