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Courtesy of California Historical Society
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A
number of artists, writers and filmmakers have, completed - or are still
working on - many creative projects which consider the people of Peoples
Temple and the events in Jonestown. The articles below describe those
projects, introduce the creative forces behind them, and consider how
they perceive their own work.
1. Jonestown:
The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
1. Jonestown Documentary Wins Awards, Theatrical Release, by
Sonya Childress
2. The First Real Film on Peoples Temple, by Lela Howard
3. Reliving the Love, Recalling the Pain of Temple Experience,
by Laura Kohl
 3a.
Film Creates Opportunity for Temple Member Reunions, by Laura
Kohl
4. Film Focuses on Religious, Not Political Side, of Peoples Temple,
by Vernon Gosney
5. A Peoples Temple survivor remembers, by Garrett Lambrev
6. Jonestown Film Recalls Both Good and Bad of Peoples Temple,
by Nell Smart
7. Documentary Raises Issues for Future
Films to Explore, by Michael Bellefountaine
8. Supporting Preconceptions: A review of the Jonestown film,
by David Parker Wise
9. Film Inspires Us to Considers Difficult Questions, by
Rev. Richard A. Lawrence
10. Jonestown: Tough, Exhausting . and Important, by Susan
M. White Hicks
11. Jonestown:
The Reviews and Awards
2. The People's Temple
1. The People's Temple Looks Towards 2007, by Leigh Fondakowski
2. The Portrayal of a Temple Member on Stage, by Kelli Simpkins
3. Reviews of The People’s Temple,
2006
3. Books and writing projects
1. A Writer's Journal, Part II, by Annie Dawid
1a.
Resurrection City: A Novel of Jonestown
- An Introduction and an Excerpt, by Annie Dawid
2. Writing Project Considers Life After November 18, by Kimberly
Winston
3. Close Encounter with a Modern-day Cult, by Leonard Geddes
4. The Crime Of The Century: Death in Jonestown,
by Richard Williams
4. Music & Recordings
1. Musician Interprets Jim Jones and Jonestown
2. Writing "Propaganda" and my work with the Jonestown Audiotapes,
by Paul Steffler
3. Slain In the Spirit Completed, Writers Seek Backers,
by Susan Yankowitz
4. Tracking Donald Freed and Mark Lane through Jonestown,
by Michael Sheppard, Transparency
5. Films, Documentary,
and Drama
1. Documentary on Temple Attorney Charles Garry Completed,
by Hrag Yedalian
2. Jonestown Docudrama Completes Shooting, Anticipates Release,
by Greta Knutzen
2a. A View from the Set, by Greta Knutzen
3. My Road to Jonestown, by H.D. Motyl
4. Documenting a Network's Role in the Jonestown Tragedy, by
Patricia Lynch
5. British Documentary on Peoples Temple Begins Research,
by Tom Deverell
6. Documentary to Consider Life of Jackie Speier, by Michealene Cristini Risley
7. An Interpretation of Jonestown, by Adeline Colangelo
8. Missing Pieces Temporarily
Shelved, by Anna Wisniewski
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