Greta Schiller
2021
International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Andrea Weiss, Greta Schiller
Anna Mae Winburn, Ernestine Davis
From the Piney Woods School in the Mississippi Delta to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, this toe-tapping music film tells the story of the swinging, multi-racial all-women jazz band of the 1940s.
International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Before Stonewall
Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller
Rita Mae Brown, Red Jordan Arobateau
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.
Before Stonewall
Paris Was a Woman
Greta Schiller
Juliet Stevenson, Gisèle Freund
Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.
Paris Was a Woman
Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women
Greta Schiller
Ernestine Davis, Renei Phelan
This profile of storied trumpeter of jazz, Tiny Davis, and her cohort pianist-drummer, Ruby Lucas, is an amalgam of artifacts about the two women, accompanied with poetry by Cheryl Clarke.
Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women
The Man Who Drove with Mandela
Greta Schiller
Cecil Williams, Corin Redgrave
During the time of apartheid Nelson Mandela drove around South Africa in a limousine disguised as a chauffeur while organizing the armed struggle against the apartheid regime. But who was the distinguished looking white man sitting in the back seat? Meet Cecil Williams, an acclaimed gay white theatre director and communist.
The Man Who Drove with Mandela
No Dinosaurs in Heaven
Greta Schiller
The documentary weaves together two strands: an examination of the problem posed by creationists who earn science education degrees only to advocate anti-scientific beliefs in the classroom; and a visually stunning raft trip down the Grand Canyon, led by Dr. Eugenie Scott, that debunks creationist explanations for its formation. These two strands expose the fallacies in the "debate," manufactured by anti-science forces, that creationism is a valid scientific alternative to evolution.
No Dinosaurs in Heaven