Director:	Greta Schiller
	Producer:	Greta Schiller & Mark Gevisser
	Cinematography:	Michelle Crenshaw and Tania Hoser
	Editor:	Prisca Swan
	Distributor:	Cinema Guild
		1697 Broadway, Ste 802, New York, NY 10019
		Tel: (212) 246-5522
		Fax: (212) 246-5525
	Language:	English
	Country of Production:	UK/USA, 1998
	Running Time:	82 minutes (35mm, documentary)

		In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theater director, Cecil Williams, was arrested while driving with Nelson Mandela. The film is a portrait of Williams, an unusual and gifted man who embodied the two most powerful taboos of apartheid South Africa: race and homosexuality. Using striking interviews with Williams' friends and comrades (some of whom never knew of his double life), intercut with home movies and newsreel footage, filmmaker Greta Schiller presents a complicated and claustrophobic South Africa. Corin Redgrave (currently starring in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway play Not About Nightingales), in a tour-de-force performance, helps recreate the life of this complicated man. Greta Schiller Ms. Schiller is the founding director of Jezebel Productions. In 1995, she made a documentary, PARIS WAS A WOMAN about the community of Modernist women writers and artist living on the Left Bank in Paris before WWII. Previously, she produced and directed a short drama for ITVS/PBS and Channel 4, WOMAN OF THE WOLF. She directed and co-produced BEFORE STONEWALL a landmark in gay and independent film. Other documentaries include the highly acclaimed INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM (1986), TINY AND RUBY: HELL-DIVN' WOMEN (1988), MAXINE SULLIVAN: LOVE TO BE IN LOVE (1991). Corin Redgrave as Cecil Williams Mr. Redgrave's illustrious theater career has included work in the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theater, and recent leading roles have included Marat in Marat/Sade (RNT), the title role in Julius Caesar (Alley Theater, Houston), and General George Washington in The General From America (RSC). In cinema, he has worked with Ralph Richardson, Nicolas Roeg, and Christine Edzard, in whose brilliant study of Victorian plutocracy and poverty, The Fool, he played Sir Thomas Neathouse. He has starred as Dixon in Jim Brendan's In the Name of the Father, as Andie McDowell's husband Hamish in Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral, and in Xie Jin's The Opium War. He has directed several plays, including Lilian in the West End, and has recently written a biography of his father entitled "Michael Redgrave- My Father." He is currently performing in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway play Not About Nightingales. Preceded by

	Director/Producer:	Wendy Popadynetz
	Distributor:	1933 Spring Garden, #1-F
		Tel: (215) 568-3018
		Fax: (215) 204 5280
		e-mail: wap@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu
	Language:	English
	Country of Production:	USA, 1998
	Running Time:	8 minutes (video, experimental)

		Kodak Award Winner Wendy Popadynetz visually captures the effects of internalized homophobia on her own lesbian relationship. Wendy Popadynetz Wendy Popadynetz is from Alberta, Canada. She has recently completed her first year in the graduate film program at Temple University in Philadelphia. With a deep interest in civil, equal and human rights she hopes to bring stories that might lead to understanding and social change. Fri June 18, 1:00 p.m; Sat June 19, 4:00 p.m; Tues June 22, 3:15 p.m; Wed June 23, 8:50 p.m (A reception for the filmmakers will follow the Sat June 19, 4:00 pm screening)

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