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The 26th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival is proud to announce its screening of Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (2018, Oren Rudavsky, USA, 85 min, in English). The film will be introduced by Catherine Portuges of UMass Amherst.
Joseph Pulitzer began as a penniless Jewish immigrant from Hungary and grew into one of America’s most admired and feared media figures. His popular New York newspaper The World maintained powerful journalistic and artistic ideals through its ascent. Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People tells the story of the founder of the Pulitzer Prize who spoke of “fake news” and the importance of freedom of the press over a century ago. Narrated by Adam Driver, with the voice of Pulitzer performed by Liev Schreiber.
Valley Premiere, co-sponsored by Mount Holyoke History Dept; Comparative Literature (UMass); and Journalism (UMass)
Introduction by Catherine Portuges, of UMass Amherst
The director, Oren Rudavsky, and on-camera expert Daniel Czitrom (Mount Holyoke) will be present for discussion
The screening will begin at 7:30PM on Wednesday, February 27th in the Isenberg Flavin Family Auditorium (SOM 137).
Guest Speakers
Oren Rudavsky is an award-winning filmmaker and producer. Along with Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, some of Rudavsky's other films include The Ruins of Lifta, focusing on an abandoned Palestinian village in Jerusalem, and Colliding Dreams, which traces the history of Zionism. He is the head of Oren Rudavsky Productions, a film company that creates "documentaries and fiction films that examine what it means to be human."
Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Czitrom is Professor of History on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College, with special interest in the history of New York City and 20th century America. Educated in New York City’s public schools, He received his BA from SUNY Binghamton and his MA and PhD. From the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His latest book is New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford, 2016). Czitrom is also the author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008); Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982); and co-author of Out of Many: A History of the American People (9th ed., 2019), a best-selling college survey textbook. He served as Historical Advisor for the BBC America historical drama Copper (2012-13) set in Civil War era New York. And he has appeared as a featured on-camera commentator in numerous documentary film projects, including Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (PBS/American Masters, 2019); The Rise and Fall of Penn Station (PBS, 2014); New York: A Documentary Film (PBS, 1999); American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS, 1999). In 2012 Czitrom was elected to the Society of American Historians, based at Columbia University, which promotes literary distinction in historical writing, and he now serves on its Executive Board.