Background
Kleiman, Vivian Abbe was born on October 11, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Philip and Hilda (Kramer) Kleiman.
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Forgotten Fires (Video Tape: 57 Minutes, Color)
(The film investigates the burning of two African American...)
The film investigates the burning of two African American churches in rural South Carolina by a young convert to the Ku Klux Klan. Told through remarkably frank interviews with both the victims and the perpetrators of these racial crimes, the film puts a surprisingly human face on racism, transforming a seemingly simple story of blacks and whites into a complex tale filled with endless shades of gray. What begins as an investigation into the church burnings becomes an extraordinary meditation on race relations in America today. Filmed over a one-year period in Manning, South Carolina, "Forgotten Fires" goes behind simplistic news headlines and examines the historical, economic, and social contexts to the epidemic of church burnings in the 1990s. Skillfully interweaving Ku Klux Klan home movies with gripping live sequences, informative historical footage, and startling confessional testimony, the film traces the coming of the Klan to this sleepy rural town and shows how the group's twisted logic of racial enmity found fertile ground among the region's dirt-poor whites. In a place where blacks and whites had lived side by side for years, the fiery oratory of the Klan attracted eager white converts ready to blame their black neighbors for their own lost opportunities and impoverished lives.
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Vivian Abbe Kleiman
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Bachelor, University of California, 1974.
Career
Filmmaker
lecturer Graduate Program in Documentary Film, Stanford University, 1995-1998. Board directors Cultural Research and Comm., Berkeley, California, Catticus Corporation, Berkeley. Founding director Jewish Film Festival, Berkeley, 1981-1985, Frameline, San Francisco, since 1985.
President Signifyin' Works, Berkeley, since 1991. Vice president Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, 1983-1993. Cinematographer Tongues Untied, 1989.
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Forgotten Fires (Video Tape: 57 Minutes, Color)
(The film investigates the burning of two African American...)
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Forgotten Fires (Video Tape: 57 Minutes, Color)
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Member Association of Indiana Vdeo and Film, Film Arts Foundation, International Documentary Association.
