Show 1:
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.