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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

A place to stand / Catamount Films presents ; executive producer, David Grubin ; produced by Gabriel Baca, Daniel Glick ; directed by Daniel Glick.

Publisher, Date:

[San Francisco, California] : Video Project, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (83 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

Wide screen

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A place to stand is a documentary film about the life of the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca. It depicts his transformation from a functionally illiterate convict to an award-winning poet, novelist, and screenwriter. Some of Baca's poems are interspersed throughout the narrative.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-

Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952- -- Film adaptations.

Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Ex-convicts -- United States -- Biography.

Solitary confinement -- United States.

Mexican American poets -- Biography.

Prisons -- United States.

Prison violence.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Nonfiction films.

Educational films.

Ethnic films.

Feature films.

Short films.

Other Author:

Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952- narrator, author.

Glick, Daniel, 1983- film director, film producer, animator, director of photography, editor of moving image work, screenwriter.

Baca, Gabriel, film producer, editor of moving image work, director of photography, screenwriter.

Grubin, David, film producer.

Suen, Roger, composer (expression).

Gordon, Michael, director of photography.

Fitch, Luke, director of photography.

Aguilera, Nico, director of photography.

Christo Martinez, Eric, artist.

Cultura Fuerte (Musical group), composer (expression)

Catamount Films (Firm), production company.

Video Project, film distributor.

Other Title:

Conviction, from prison halls to museum walls

Notes:

"Based on the critically acclaimed memoir by Jimmy Santiago Baca"--disc surface.

Special features: Theatrical trailer -- Featurette "Conviction," a documentary (approximately 9 min. : sound, color) about artist Eric Christo Martinez. Short directed, shot and edited by Daniel Glick, music by Cultura Fuerte.

Directors of photography, Michael Gordon, Gabriel Baca, Daniel Glick, Luke Fitch, Nico Aguilera ; editors, Daniel Glick, Gabriel Baca ; original score, Roger Suen ; animators, Mustafa Kandaz, Daniel Glick.

Narrated by Jimmy Santiago Baca and others. Cast: Paul Blott, Eliud Salazar, Anthony Herrera, Esai Baca, Stacy James Baca

Shot on location in Arizona and New Mexico.

English dialogue.

Other Number:

958383461

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

621391

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD BIO Baca