Independent filmmakers
Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films announce that their new film celebrating
the 80th anniversary of the WPA is now available on DVD.
The DVD of “Enough to Live On:
The Arts of the WPA” can be purchased through Amazon at this link.
Excerpts from the film can be viewed at this link.
More About the Film: In May 1935,
as part of the great return-to-work effort known as the Works Progress
Administration…the WPA…President Franklin Roosevelt brought Americans back to
work in the service of the rebuilding of a society staggering under the weight
of the Great Depression.
Under the arts projects of
the WPA, such as the Federal Art Project and the Federal Theater Project, these
workers included artists, writers, actors, and musicians…for FDR believed that
creative Americans could be employed to spark the rebuilding of our economy as
well as the reinvigoration of our culture at a time when the future of our
democracy was in doubt.
“Enough to Live On: The Arts
of the WPA” features more than 70
works of art from this period, including notable works by Rockwell Kent,
Dorothea Lange, Stuart Davis, and Reginald Marsh, as well as rare footage of
WPA artists at work. This film tells the
story of how President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal moved art in America
out of the rarified atmosphere of the elite and brought it directly to the
American people as an inspiration and catalyst for change and recovery in the
1930s. Produced by 217 Films. Written, directed and narrated by Michael
Maglaras. Executive Producer Terri
Templeton. NR. 94 Minutes.
Read the director’s
statement at this link.
Screening
dates are being added frequently and the tour will continue through 2016. The full schedule can be viewed at this link.
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