Best Documentary Short, 2003 Tribeca Film Festival
This short film celebrates the life's work of photographer Milton Rogovin, who was 93 when this film was shot. After being blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and subsequently losing his optometry practice, Rogovin dedicated his life to photographing the residents of a depressed six-block area in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Rogovin's first series of portraits of Lower West Side residents was completed in 1972. Over the next twenty years, Rogovin returned two more times to re-photograph his subjects. The film follows him as he returns one more time to the Lower West Side to take a fourth in his series of once-a-decade portraits.
Best Documentary Short
2003 Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
Co-Winner
2003 The One Show Film Festival, New York, NY
Official Selection
2003 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
2003 InFact Theatrical Documentary Showcase
2003 Milwaukee International Film Festival
2004 True/False Film Festival
2004 Ashland International Film Festival
2004 Syracuse International Film & Video Festival
2005 International Festival of Cinema and Technology
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murmur5555 1 year ago
Lifelong Buffalonian ..... My father grew up on the west side. I was always struck by these pictures in the Subway stations ..... thanks for sharing this
TonyCityLove 1 year ago
rest in peace
karmona777 1 year ago
Milton Rogovin passed on January 18, 2011. He was 101 years old. "He was a wonderful, kind, compassionate man who lived a life true to the cause of civic decency, equality, and social justice." - The Online Photographer
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