Screenplay
55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming their musician friends. After several years of making small films, they decide to take the family around-the-world to film musicians in the most remote corners of the earth. The historic 16mm footage is intercut with modern day interviews of the family as they lend insight into a time & place that doesn't exist today. Part travelogue, part musical odyssey, part ethnocentric dream, "Pete and Toshi Get a Camera" will take you places you would never have imagined.
Director
55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming their musician friends. After several years of making small films, they decide to take the family around-the-world to film musicians in the most remote corners of the earth. The historic 16mm footage is intercut with modern day interviews of the family as they lend insight into a time & place that doesn't exist today. Part travelogue, part musical odyssey, part ethnocentric dream, "Pete and Toshi Get a Camera" will take you places you would never have imagined.
Producer
Película llevada a Sundance por parte de la HBO. Narra la historia de Harry Belafonte. Activista, cantante y actor norteamericano que ha sido todo un símbolo en la lucha contra la segregación. Trabajó íntimamente con Martin Luther King Jr. por ello, en luchas como el apartheid en Suráfrica, movilizando a celebridades en numerosos actos. Todo un ejemplo de superación.
Producer
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.
Producer
In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.
