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Criminal Justice for Juveniles – Dade County 1995
Juvenile Justice Center, Dade County This twelve minute feature was part of an ambitious special – What Can We Do About Violence? with Bill Moyers. Several producers contributed feature stories for...
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City in Crisis – New York in 1975-76
In 1975, New York City faced a debilitating fiscal crisis — government employees, teachers, firemen, librarians and social service providers suffered lay-offs. Hospitals and fire stations closed....
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Miguel Algarin’s Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe – 1977
Miguel Algarin at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe - from Shattering the Silences Before hip-hop, rap and poetry slams, there was the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe. Co-founder, Miguel Algarin, poet, playwright and...
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Religious Right’s Convention – Dallas, 1992
Pat Buchanan & Rev. Jerry Falwell This 17 minute verite documentary was part of Bill Moyer’s “Listening to America” – a weekly public affairs and documentary series — tracking and analyzing the...
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Toni Morrison, World of Ideas
Produced and directed for Bill Moyers for his series, World of Ideas – interviews with novelists, theologians, community activists. philosophers, playwrights and social and natural scientists — in...
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Ernie Cortes, Concern for Community
This two part documentary/extensive interview program with Bill Moyers had its genesis in the World of Ideas Series of 1990 that included interviews with novelists, theologians, community activists,...
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Angela –“Undocumented Worker Series” 1979
Angela has been living and working in New York City for ten years. She has not only worked hard and long hours here but studied for her highschool diploma. Angela is “undocumented” the new term (in...
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Manbo — A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Maggie and Lola This short documentary about Lola, a Haitian immigrant in Brooklyn, tells the story of immigration — its usual low-paying jobs — but in the case of immigrants from Haiti it means coping...
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Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983 – 1993, Exhibit and Book
Ai Weiwei , Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1983; photo by Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei may not yet be a household name, but he’s inching closer. Anyone who follows events in China or the international art world has...
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A Year/Ein Jahr – a film by Renate Sami
From "A Year/Ein Jahr" One Dies Before The Other The fall light is fading in Renate Sami’s book-lined apartment near Savigny Platz in Berlin’s former West Side. Sami is fiddling with her DVD player...
View ArticleFacing the Truth in China
The blogosphere reporting news from China is abuzz this week with the story of the former Red Guard – now in her 60s – apologizing for her behavior and expressing remorse for what occurred at her elite...
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Justice & the Generals Screening, March 15, 2016
Screening of “Justice & the Generals” at University of Miami, Bill Cosford Cinema, Tuesday, March 15 at 6 pm. Sponsored by the Law School, Latin American Studies Program, Communications Dept.,...
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Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing, a Memoir, Readings, Reviews, Interviews
Also refer to my author’s website: www.gailpellett.com NEXT READINGS: Friday, June 17, Laurel Bookstore, downtown Oakland at 6 pm Monday, June 20, Books Inc., Palo Alto, at 7 pm Tuesday, June 21, Book...
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China’s Forbidden History, Themes, Ideas
This op-ed first appeared in 3 Quarks Daily on March 14, 2016; also posted on my author’s site: www.gailpellett.com Along with the jaw-dropping economic and technological transformation in China over...
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Justice & the Generals (updated) screening June 22, 2016 – San Francisco
Join us for a screening of the updated “Justice & the Generals” on Wednesday, June 22 at 6:30 pm at the Roxie Theater, The Mission, San Francisco. Speakers following the screening. Sponsored by...
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Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing – review: rabble.ca
“The memoir’s deepest reward is its excavation of China’s revolutionary process…and the assumptions, illusions and merits of Pellett’s own political formation…(along with Pellett’s) rich descriptions...
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Forbidden Fruit – reviewed in Independent Publisher & Midwest Review of Books
This review of “Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing, a Memoir” appeared in both Independent Publisher and Midwest Review of Books by Karen Chutsky: “ballsy, informative…vibrant, passionate…raw diary of her...
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Zhang Hongtu – Retrospective Exhibition at the Queens Museum
See blog posting “Zhang Hongtu – Retrospective at the Queens Museum” on my author’s site for “Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing, a Memoir” www.gailpellett.com November, 2015 The post Zhang Hongtu –...
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Justice & the Generals – Re-launch of updated film
JUSTICE & THE GENERALS—A documentary with legs! Generals Vides Casanova & Garcia A U.S. backed military regime; Crimes that shocked the world, Command responsibility in a U.S. courtroom Justice...
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Young Lives in China: Review of “Wish Lanterns” by Alec Ash
Originally published in LA Review of Books: Dec. 2, 2016 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/young-lives-new-china/#! AMERICANS ARE OFTEN highly opinionated about China, yet reveal an embarrassing...
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