> >Does anyone know the title, date of release, and production co./distributor > >for the documentary made about Maya Lin, the architect who designed the Viet > >Nam Memorial? It won some kind of award this year, I think, but I don't > >know the name of it, etc. It would also be helpful to know the running time > >of the film. > > > >Many thanks! > > > >Donna Harrington Kenny > > The title of the film is MAYA LIN: A STRONG CLEAR VISION, directed by > Frieda Lee Mock, produced by Sanders and Mock Productions. Running time is > 105 minutes. The distributor is Ocean Releasing (Mock's company). Reason > you haven't seen it is because it was completed just before Oscar-time, and > actually won the Oscar before making the rounds at Festivals. > > Actually, the film showed just last weekend at the Seattle Asian American > Film Festival. At the festival, Mock announced that it would be on PBS > "end of next year" (not sure whether she meant calendar year 1996 or > 1995-96 season). The film opens theatrically on October 20th in > Washington, DC; November 3 in NYC, and then in major markets the next > weekend (which is of course Veterans Day). > > BTW, just to be nitpicky, I believe the proper name of the memorial is the > Vietnam *Veterans* Memorial; I feel this is important given the battles > over whether Lin's design was making a statement about the politics of the > war (arguably Ross Perot's position) or about the memory of those (from the > U.S.) who lost their lives (the committee's position). Incidentally, Maya Lin also designed a moving civil rights memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. I think there may have been some features done on it by Alabama Public Television. For info, contact Brent Davis ([log in to unmask]) at the Center for Public Television. Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] SCREENsite: http://www.sa.ua.edu/tcf/welcome.htm Telecommunication and Film/University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]