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OUT RAGE '69

Production Credits

ARTHUR DONG, producer/director/writer

Since his first high school film in 1970, depicting a child's view of war, Arthur Dong has produced films reflecting the resilience of the human spirit in the face of social injustices. His films include stories of immigrants making a new life in America (the Oscar-nominated Sewing Woman), Asian-American performers seeking equal participation in the entertainment industry (Forbidden City, USA), the footbinding of women in China (Lotus), and, most recently, Coming Out Under Fire exploring the origins of the US governments systematic persecution of gay and lesbian soldiers. Coming Out Under Fire won the Special Jury Prize at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on PBS in June 1995.

At the Los Angeles PBS station, KCET, Dong produced ten documentaries for the public television series Life & Times and received three Los Angeles Emmy nominations. Additionally, Dong is the recipient of over 60 American and international film awards and has received fellowships from the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation. A graduate of the Film School at San Francisco State University and the American Film Institutes Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies, Dong is currently in post-production on Tap! The Tempo of America.

ALAN BÉRUBÉ, story consultant

Author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, Alan Bérubé also co-wrote Arthur Dong's award-winning documentary, Coming Out Under Fire. He has taught and lectured on gay and lesbian history at the University of California-Santa Cruz and Stanford University. Bérubé was recently awarded a 1994 Rockefeller Residency Fellowship in the Humanities to develop his newest book, Queer and Gay Identities in the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, 1930s to 1950s.

SUSAN LEVENE, associate producer

Senior researcher for the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, directing print and archival research, Levene also worked as associate producer for two segments of The Great Depression, a seven-part series that aired on PBS in 1993.