Monthly Archives: December 2009

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

The Woman Behind Little Women

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, is an almost universally recognized name.  Her reputation as a morally upstanding New ...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

Interview Outtakes from the Film

Louisa May Alcott's reputation as a morally upstanding spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of late 19th Century Concord, is firmly established. However, raised among reformers, the intellectual protege of Emerson and Hawthorne and Thoreau, Alcott was actually a free thinker, with democratic ideals and progressive ...

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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

Q&A with Nancy Porter & Harriet Reisen

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 December 14, 2009 -- Director Nancy Porter, producer Harriet Reisen, and actress Elizabeth Marvel field questions from the audience at the ...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

Interview with Director Nancy Porter & Writer Harriet Reisen

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 The following interview is an excerpt from Brookline Access TV, conducted by host Daniel Berman on September 26, 2008.

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

The Character of Jo March

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 For many girls, Little Women is a reading experience so stirring and lasting in impact that as adults they name their ...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

Director’s Statement

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 If you met her, you might think Louisa May Alcott was a contemporary. The challenge of Louisa May Alcott: The Woman ...

2012 Season Overview

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (1/23/12) 90-minutes One of the most politically activist singer-songwriters to emerge in the 1960’s anti-Viet Nam war era, Ochs was inspired by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, but also by Elvis Presley and John Wayne. He was a journalism ...

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Production Credits

Produced & Directed by John Antonelli Co-Producer D. Channsin Berry Director of Photography James Iacona Editor Eli Olson Writer Noland Walker Executive Producer Avon Kirkland Associate Producer Rick Roper Additional Editing Todd Miro Will Parrinello Kenji Yamamoto Additional Photography Will Parrinello Post Supervision Quinn Costello ...