Scribe Video Center Presents – Producers’ Forum with Phil Bertelsen and Lise Yasui: “The Picture Taker”

Ernest Withers lived a complicated and extraordinary life, magnified by a legacy of developing nearly two million images that came to define the American civil rights movement. A photo-journalist, soldier, police officer, and civil rights activist in his lifetime, The Picture Taker illuminates Withers lesser-known work as a secret FBI informant, a double-life uncovered only after his death.

Emmy and Peabody winner Phil Bertelsen directed Through the Fire, School of the Future, and episodes of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross and Finding Your Roots. He co-directed NBC’s Hope and Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media and Netflix’s Who Killed Malcolm X?, which helped exonerate two men convicted of Malcolm X’s murder.

Lise Yasui produced and directed the Oscar-nominated Family Gathering, about her Japanese American family’s WWII internment experience. It aired on American Experience, the BBC, and Star TV. She co-produced Frontline’s Peabody-winning The Gate of Heavenly Peace, about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, which was broadcast internationally.

Cost:

$7.50 General Admission, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 Scribe Members

Register here: https://scribe.org/events/producers-forum-phil-bertelsen-and-lise-yasui-picture-taker