Webinar: The Movement and the "Madman"

 The Movement and the "Madman"

7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT), Thursday November 3d

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 www.movementandthemadman.com

36 minutes from the film 

Discussion with 

Director Stephen Talbot

Executive Producer Robert Levering

Producer Steve Ladd

Moderator Barbara Myers

STEPHEN TALBOT is an Emmy, DuPont and Peabody award-winning filmmaker who has produced, written or directed more than 40 documentaries for public television, primarily for the PBS series Frontline and KQED (San Francisco). His Frontline films include The Best Campaign Money Can Buy, The Long March of Newt Gingrich, Justice for Sale and News War: Whats Happening to the News. He directed the PBS history special, 1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation, as well as producing and writing PBS biographies of authors Dashiell Hammett, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos. He was the co-creator and executive producer of the PBS music specials, Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders. Talbot also served as the series editor for Frontlines international series, Frontline World: Stories from a Small Planet, and the senior producer of documentary shorts for the PBS series Independent Lens. As a student at Wesleyan University, he made his first documentary film about the November 1969 anti-war protests in Washington, DC.

Robert Levering is an Executive Producer and Advisor to the Boys Who Said NO! a recently completed film about draft resistance during the Vietnam era. (boyswhosaidno.com)  He is currently working on a documentary entitled  The Movement and the Madman about the impact of the 1969 Moratorium and Mobilization demonstrations in preventing Nixon from escalating the war (movementandthemadman.com)  A draft resister himself, Robert was a full-time antiwar organizer for six years during the Vietnam War. A long-time journalist, he wrote an article on the current controversy about registering women for the draft: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/05/activists-fought-military-draft-conscription-congress-women-register/

STEVE LADD is a Producer of The Movement and the Madman and an Associate Producer of The Boys Who Said NO!. He served for 10 years as Executive Director of an Oscar-winning documentary production and distribution company, responsible for acquiring and promoting several hundred films. More recently, he has been an independent marketing and media consultant, supporting and launching dozens of documentary films, including Emmy winners and Oscar nominees. He was a draft resister and antiwar organizer at UC Berkeley during the Vietnam War.

Barbara Myers is an independent journalist, specializing in historically based print and film stories, and the author of The Other Conspirator, the story of Pentagon Papers trial co-defendant Anthony Russo. Her antiwar and social justice work includes 1970s participation in the Indochina Peace Campaign, community-based efforts in diversity and education and work as a contributor to the documentary, The Boys Who Said No! Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War.

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