Panel | Meet TCFF Visionary Award Winner Rick Prelinger

Showings

City Opera House Sun, Aug 3, 2014 9:30 AM
Sponsored by: Dennis & Barbara Piskor and Longview Winery
Film Info
Section:Panels
Runtime:90 min.

Description

Michael Moore will sit down with Rick Prelinger, the visionary San Francisco-based archivist, filmmaker, and educator whose work inspired and informed “Roger & Me” 25 years ago, and each of Moore’s documentaries that followed. Get a peek at Prelinger’s “Yesterday and Tomorrow in Detroit,” which sold out four TCFF screenings, and find out more about his life’s work, the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films, including an astonishing assortment of films chronicling the City of Detroit.

Scheduled to Appear: Michael Moore; Rick Prelinger, “Yesterday and Tomorrow in Detroit.”<

Topics and speakers are subject to change.