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American Freedom Alliance and Ayn Rand Institute
cordially invite you to
a special 75th-anniversary screening of
WE THE LIVING
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
6:30 p.m.
To be followed by a panel discussion on the film,
featuring producer Duncan Scott and Ayn Rand Institute archivist Jeff Britting.
Location: Magnin Auditorium, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles 90049
Admission: $20.00
Parking: Free at the Skirball Cultural Center
Reservations: Tickets can be purchased in advance and can also be purchased at the door.
Patrons are advised that the film is nearly three hours in length and should be prepared for an extended screening and panel to follow.
Ayn Rand published her startling first novel, We the Living, in April 1936, making this screening the 75th anniversary of the publication. The film takes places in the chaotic years following the Russian Revolution and follows the lives of three individuals who seek to defy an oppressive, state-controlled society. Beautiful, strong-willed Kira (Alida Valli) is torn between two men. Leo and Andrei (Rossano Brazzi and Fosco Giachetti). Their love affairs, conflicts and heroic struggles for the right to live their own lives are at the heart of We the Living. Rand herself described the novel as “the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography,” and in it she begins to outline her philosophy of individualism, which would become so clearly articulated in later works such as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Duncan Scott is a four-time Emmy® Award-winning Producer/Director. He has 26 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker, including nine years spent as a documentary producer for PBS. He produced and directed the acclaimed hour-long biographical documentaries on Margaret Mead and George Meany, and has worked with such luminaries as Woody Allen, Michael Caine, and Eric Clapton. Duncan worked directly with Rand during the restoration of her film classic, We the Living, and is also the director of the Objectivist History Project. For eight years, the Project has been video taping interviews with the pioneering figures of the Objectivist movement. He is currently developing a new, feature-length film on the life and ideas of Ayn Rand, entitled Inside the Mind of Ayn Rand, set to release in early 2012.
Jeff Britting serves as archivist of the Ayn Rand Archives, a Special Collection of the Ayn Rand Institute. He has published a biography of Ayn Rand and written about her film and theater adaptations. Recently, Mr. Britting adapted Anthem as a stage play for Austin Shakespeare, and contributed incidental music and visuals.
Call the AFA office at (310) 444 3085 for further information on the screening