Veronica Selver

Movies

Irmi
Director
The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.
A Fierce Green Fire
Editor
It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.
La Femme de Chambre, Un Corps sans Visage
Translator
A short film shot on July 2, 2011 that directly refers to the DSK case. In voice-over, with an echo in English, the inner monologue of a maid who wears makeup, hair, wounds, whose body has disappeared in suffering. A reflection on loneliness and confinement.
Word Is Out: Then and Now, Thirty Years Later
Director
For the 30th anniversary of the release of the legendary LGBTQ documentary, WORD IS OUT, the filmmakers went back and produced a short film featuring the cast and crew.
Raising the Roof
Director
On October 18, 1978, the San Francisco Examiner announced the birth of an innovative company, the Seven Sisters Construction Company, a group of women carpenters inspired to break down the barriers in a trade which has traditionally discriminated against them.
KPFA On the Air
Director
Novelist Alice Walker narrates a documentary about the oldest independent radio station in the world, KPFA radio.
Blacks and Jews
Editor
This documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view of both Black and Jewish activists.
Coming Out Under Fire
Editor
A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual WWII veterans.
Berkeley in the Sixties
Editor
A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.
You Got to Move
Director
A documentary that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change.
On Company Business
Editor
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
Director
More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian. Their stories are arranged in loose chronology: early years, fitting in (which for some meant marriage), coming out, establishing adult identities, and reflecting on how things have changed and how things should be.