The filmmaker,
Lucy Massie Phenix, is known
as a Producer/Director and Editor of some of the classic social documentaries
of the last generation. She was Editor and Writer of the Academy Award Nominated,
Regret to Inform, 1999, an epic film about Vietnamese and
American war widows. She is the Co-Director, Co-Writer of Stranger
with a Camera, a film of the fatal shooting of a cameraman in eastern
Kentucky exploring the documentary genre as a vehicle for social change,
and aired on POV/PBS in 2000. Phenix was Producer/Director and Editor of
the international prize-winning film about grass-roots social change in
the South and Highlander Folk School, You Got to Move,
l985; she was a member of the Winterfilm Collective with Vietnam Veterans
against the War which made Wintersoldier, 1972, a film
of testimonies about the brutality of war by veterans returning from Vietnam,
acclaimed in the Cannes and Berlin film festivals, shown at the Whitney
Museum, and though largely ignored in the U.S., it is being re-released
and distributed by Milestone Films. She was an editor and co-director of
the groundbreaking film Word Is Out, the stories of gay
men and women which aired on nationwide television in l978 and which won
a Dupont Citation for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism; the Editor of
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, l980, the compilation
film classic on government propaganda and women working in the skilled trades
during World War II, shown on PBS American Experience; and the Producer/Director
and Editor of Cancer in Two Voices, l993, the story of
a relationship during the time in which one partner is dying of cancer,
which won an audience Award at the Creteil France Festival of Films by Women.
She has been a consulting editor of numerous films, most recently, I
Will Not Be Sad in This World and Both; and including
such films as The Times of Harvey Milk, Stories
from the Quilt, Berkeley in the Sixties, Complaints
of a Dutiful Daughter, and On the Air: the Story of KPFA
and Free Speech Radio. Lucy was also a cinematographer of a film
about the painter and teacher Leigh Hyams, Making Marks.
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Lucy Phenix is working in collaboration with Vermont cinematographer and
filmmaker Alan Dater and co-producer Lisa Merton
who have done much of the filming of Karnes who also lives in Vermont. Alan
and Lisa are currently involved in making Roots of Change, 2007, which tells
the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai
whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard
the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy. Members of
New Day Films, their previous work includes: The World in Claire’s
Classroom, 2000, a film that documents a Vermont Public school teacher’s
extraordinary vision of teaching children how to appreciate diversity, respect
themselves, and work together; Home to Tibet, l995, a film about a Tibetan
refugee’s return to his homeland, shown on PBS; and at the Amsterdam
Documentary Film Festival and Hot Springs Festival in Arkansas, Michelle
Holzapfel, l993, a short film on the Vermont wood-turner and sculptor; Bridge
of Fire, l992, the award-winning story of the collaboration of two potters,
one Japanese, the other a fellow Vermonter, screened at the Museum of Modern
Art and the Louvre; Wolf Kahn: Landscape Painter, l990, a short film portrait
of the well-known American painter, and winner of a Cine Golden Eagle Award;
and Blanche, l988, a PBS special on the Bach Choral Conductor Blanche Moyse
telling her history and showing the preparation for a performance of Bach’s
B Minor Mass in Marlboro, Vermont.
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Other Key Personnel:
Elspeth Gilmore, Associate Producer, potter, social change
activist, student of KK
Joy Brown, Associate Producer, President of Still Mountain
Center,
noted ceramic artist
Kit Long, Associate Producer, artist and Trager Bodyworker
Veronica Selver, Marta Wohl, Ken Schneider, Consultants,
filmmakers
Mikhail Zakin, Mary Law, Paulus Berensohn, Consultants,
clay artists and educators
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