Wide Lens: Oscar Documentaries
8:30 p.m. Film Screenings
Breathing Lessons, Jessica Yu, 1996, 35 min.
Marjoe, Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, 1972, 88 min.
This program offers a riveting look at two compelling personalities: Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, who is largely confined to an iron lung, and former traveling child evangelist Marjoe Gortner.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
About "Wide Lens: Oscar Documentaries":
SFMOMA, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and California College of the Arts copresent a series of Academy Award-nominated and -winning documentaries from the last 40 years. Curated by Rob Epstein, chair of graduate film at CCA, the series commences with a panel discussion on documentary film in public culture.
$7 general; $5 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. Does not include Museum admission.
Official Website: http://www.sfmoma.org/calendar/calendar_event.asp?eventid=1012&etype=2&func=repeat