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Description
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Shot in HD, and using animation and digital effects as well as docudrama. this award winning 84-minute production is the first film biography of this American icon. Producer-Writer Harriet Reisen and Producer-Director Nancy Porter, working from a script drawn from primary sources and filming in many original locations, have used documentary and dramatic techniques as well as experimental and flash animation, green-screen, and digital effects to bring a fresh approach to the PBS historical documentary form. An independent project at its inception, the program was co-produced with WNET and will be broadcast on American Masters December 28, 2009 at 9pm. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women is the story of the quest of a volatile talented woman, to rescue her family from grueling poverty and find wealth, fame and happiness. Alcott was born into the inner circle of 19th century New England's radical cultural and liberation movements, the transcendentalists and abolitionists. She learned about literature from Emerson; Thoreau took her on his nature walks; and she saw the Civil War up close as an army nurse. She had a secret career writing pulp fiction featuring hashish users, spies, revolutionaries, and women in every possible kind of crisis that was not discovered for 50 years after her death. Louisa Alcott was no little woman, and her life was no children's book. Featuring Tony winner/Oscar nominee Jane Alexander, and starring 3-time Obie winner Elizabeth Marvel as Louisa May Alcott.
Special Features:
Chapter selection
Extended Interviews with commentators
Interview with filmmakers
"Love" poem by Louisa May Alcott, read by Elizabeth Marvel
Public performance rights
Grade 6-12 Lesson Plan and other educational resources available at
louisamayalcott.net and pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters
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Cast
Starring Elizabeth Marvel as Louisa May Alcott
Jane Alexander as Ednah Cheney
Daniel Gerroll as Bronson Alcott
With Sarah Elbert, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Daniel Shealy, Jan Turnquist, Dr. Leona Rostenberg, Madeleine Stern, and novelist Geraldine Brooks
Festivals
Official Selection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
GZ-DOC (Canton) Int'l Documentary Film Festival
Santa Fe Film Festival
Through Women's Eyes Film Festival
Awards
Best Video 2009: Booklist
Cine Gold Eagle
Grand Award: Providence Film Festival
Audience Choice: Cape Cod Filmmaker Takeover
Best Feature Doc: L.A. Reel Women Festival
Best Family Feature: Garden State Film Festival
Production Credits & Notes
Director/Producer: Nancy Porter
Writer/Producer: Harriet Reisen
Executive Producer: Susan Lacy
Editor: Dick Bartlett
Director of Photography: Boyd Estus
A Co-Production of Nancy Porter Productions and THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG
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