Lost and Found: Documentaries from the Graduate School of Journalism

The three documentaries in this program, thesis projects from the UCB Graduate School of Journalism, explore the possibility of redemption in the face of immeasurable loss. Lisa Muñoz's Chávez Ravine (22 mins) uncovers a lost Chicano community beneath present-day Dodger Stadium. Through archival footage and interviews with former residents, Muñoz offers a gripping historical account of a people stripped of their land, as well as a meditation on the power of nostalgia, love, and baseball. In Forever Fourteen (24 mins), Kelly St. John looks back at the murder of a girl in a neighboring town during the filmmaker's own adolescence. By examining the past and present, St. John explores how the tragedy has affected the lives of the victim's loved ones-and those of complete strangers. Zsuzsanna Varga's Screw Your Courage (26 mins) offers a backstage peek into a Midnight Shakespeare program designed to keep young people off the city streets. From auditions to opening night, the players strut and fret across the stage, soliloquize into the camera, and find insight and inspiration in the Bard himself.Jennifer Paige is a Bay Area documentary filmmaker and a graduate of the School of Journalism. Brett Simon is a graduate student in Film Studies and Art Practice.

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