On Friday, July 25 at 7:00 p.m., the Warren Public Library will host a screening of documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus’s film "One Step Away." Ed Pincus was a seminal force in the documentary film world. He lived in Roxbury with his wife, Jane, until his death in November of 2013. “People now talk about Michael Moore. Michael Moore talks about Ross McElwee (director of the documentary Sherman's March). Ross McElwee talks about Ed Pincus,” said Steven Ascher, a onetime Pincus protégé and an Academy Award-nominated documentarian. “There’s a through-line there.”

Ed Pincus studied philosophy at Brown as an undergraduate and at the graduate level at Harvard. In the 1970s he co-founded the film school at MIT; he taught at Harvard in the early 1980s. "One Step Away" is one of his earliest films. Commissioned by the Public Broadcasting Lab, its subject is a commune in San Francisco during the Summer of Love (1967). It was remarkable for the use of color at that time and is an early example of the emerging cinéma vérité style.
Ed’s wife Jane will be present at the event and will speak after the screening. The event is free and open to the public. Popcorn and lemonade will be served.

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