Special Guests: PHIL DONAHUE, MICHAEL KIRK and NAOMI WOLF

Screenings and events at the
Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts, 138 W 300 S, SLC

Friday OCT 24

6:30pm
BODY OF WAR
Intro by Rocky Anderson
Opening statement by Director, Writer, Producer Phil Donahue
(88 min) Looking at veteran’s care and the true cost of war.

Saturday OCT 25

10:30am
Doug Fabrizio interviews Phil Donahue on stage for RadioWest.

11:30am - 12:30pm
SLC Film Center, KUED, KUER Members Only Reception

12:30pm
Frontline: THE LOST YEAR IN IRAQ  
(60 min) In the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein and the blunders of the start of American occupation led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III. By the FRONTLINE team that produced "Rumsfeld's War," "The Torture Question" and "The Dark Side."
Followed by Q & A with Producer Michael Kirk (30 min.)

2pm
A Conversation with Michael Kirk and Naomi Wolf:
THE FUTURE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

3pm
Frontline: END GAME
(60 min) This program contains graphic and violent imagery. How strategic and tactical mistakes brought Iraq to virtual civil war. Producer Michael Kirk traces why the president chose what military planners warned could be the worst way to fight in Iraq.
Followed by Q & A with Producer Michael Kirk (30 min)

4:30pm
Frontline: CHENEY'S LAW
(60 min) The architect of the imperial presidency.
Followed by Q & A with Producer Michael Kirk (30 min.)
 
7pm
Frontline: THE CHOICE '08
(2 hrs) Barack Obama versus John McCain - iconoclast against the newcomer - prisoner of war against the first African American nominated by a major party in one of the most historic presidential elections in our nation’s history.
Followed by Q & A with Producer Michael Kirk (30 min)

Sunday OCT 26

12pm
Naomi Wolf: reading and signing
“Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries”

1pm
A Conversation with Naomi Wolf and Michael Kirk:
THE DEATH OR MORTAL WOUNDING OF CIVIL LIBERTIES

2pm
THE END OF AMERICA
(90 min) based on the book, "The End of America: Letters to a Young Patriot" by Naomi Wolf, detailing the ten steps a country takes when it slides toward fascism.

Don't miss this UNPRECEDENTED opportunity
and it's FREE and open to the public!!!!

Sponsored by: Grand America, Barbara L. and Norm C. Tanner, Glenda and Jim Bradley, and SL City Weekly.

Community Partners: The League of Women Voters of Utah, High Road for Human Rights and the ACLU

GUEST BIOS:

Phil Donahue
Director, Writer, Producer BODY OF WAR

BODY OF WAR is an intimate and transformational feature documentary about the true face of war today. Meet Tomas Young, 25 years old, paralyzed from a bullet to his spine - wounded after serving in Iraq for less than a week.

BODY OF WAR is Tomas' coming home story as he evolves into a new person, coming to terms with his disability and finding his own unique and passionate voice against the war. The film is produced and directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, and features two original songs by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. BODY OF WAR is a naked and honest portrayal of what it's like inside the body, heart and soul of this extraordinary and heroic young man.

Phil Donahue and the DONAHUE Show have been honored with twenty Daytime Emmy Awards, including nine for Outstanding Host and a George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Journalism Award.

Phil Donahue used the television talk show format he pioneered in 1967 to interview world leaders, celebrities, newsmakers and people from all walks of life.  For over 29 years, DONAHUE examined human behavior, focused national debates on political and social issues and has provided a democratic forum for presidential candidates.

The format he introduced on November 6, 1967, as The Phil Donahue Show on WLWD-TV in Dayton, Ohio, launched the first audience participation television talk show and changed the face of American daytime television.  For his outstanding contribution to television and American culture, Mr. Donahue was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame on November 20, 1993.

As host of DONAHUE, Mr. Donahue has presided over nearly 7,000 one-hour daily shows, many on-location broadcasts and several historic broadcasts from Russia.

 

Michael Kirk
Producer, Director, Writer

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Kirk has produced more than two hundred national television programs. A former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, Kirk was the senior producer of FRONTLINE from the series’ inception in 1983 until the fall of 1987, when he created his own production company, The Kirk Documentary Group.

His most recent FRONTLINE productions include “Meltdown (in-production)”, a major investigation into the collapse of the American economy, and “The Choice”, an examination of the political and personal biographies of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. In the spring of 2008 he produced, directed and wrote, the four and a half hour, two-part special “Bush’s War.” He has produced 10 films on the “war on terror” including “Cheney’s Law (Peabody Award)," “Endgame,” “The Lost Year in Iraq (EMMY Award),” “Rumsfeld’s War,” “The Torture Question (EMMY Award),” “The Dark Side,” “The War Behind Closed Doors,” an analysis of the political infighting that led to the war with Iraq; and “The Man Who Knew,” the extraordinary saga of FBI Agent John O’Neil. Kirk’s long relationship with FRONTLINE also includes the Peabody Award-winning “Waco—The Inside Story,” (1995) a behind-the-scenes look at the FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound; and the EMMY Award-winning “The Kevorkian File,” (1994) an in-depth examination of Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s controversial record and cases.

Kirk also produces programs that concentrate on social and cultural issues in America. “Caring for Your Parents” tells the story of five families caring for their elderly parents; “Navy Blues” (EMMY award) examines gender politics in the military; “The Way the Music Died” a behind-the-scenes report on the recording industry; and the groundbreaking “Misunderstood Minds,” a two-year examination of the personal stories of five families confronting the challenges of a child’s learning disabilities. 

The winner of every major award in journalism (including The Peabody Award, Dupont-Columbia Award, nine EMMYs, and five Writer’s Guild of America awards) Kirk frequently lectures on topics ranging from current events to issues confronting journalism. He has appeared on a variety of television programs including “The Today Show”; “Bill O’Reilly Show”; CNN/MSNBC/FOX news programs and a wide variety of radio broadcasts including “Fresh Air” on NPR, and hundreds of others.

Naomi Wolf
Writer and Political Commentator

Her essays have appeared in various publications including: The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She also speaks widely to groups across the country.

The Beauty Myth, her first book, was an international bestseller. She followed that with Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century, then Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, published in 1997. Misconceptions, released in 2001, a powerful and passionate critique of pregnancy and birth in America. Next came The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and her most recent work is a book titled Give me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

Naomi Wolf is co-founder of the Board of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. The institute teaches professional development in the arts and media, politics and law, business and entrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making.