{"id":31940,"date":"2013-07-25T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=31940"},"modified":"2018-11-11T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:30:40","slug":"nelson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31940","title":{"rendered":"Jonestown Documentary Wins Awards, Theatrical Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Salvation at Any Cost, Poster Art\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/10a-jt-poster-art.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reprinted with Permission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 1960s were years of intense social and cultural tumult; it was the Age of Aquarius, when change was in the air, revolution was on the horizon, and all things seemed possible. Some looked to transcendental meditation, free love, Black Power, or LSD. But for others, Jim Jones, the charismatic and forceful leader of Peoples Temple, offered the perfect balance of spiritual fulfillment and political commitment. Jones not only preached about integration and equality, but also built an organization that provided food, clothing, and shelter to his congregation and his community.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On the surface, Jim Jones and his multiracial congregation espoused the values of a model society. But in the summer of 1977, an article in <i>New West<\/i> magazine exposed a different side of the Temple. Defectors and family members gave accounts of physical, sexual, and drug abuse, of financial corruption, and of members being held against their will. Within a few months \u2013 following a migration accelerated by the negative publicity \u20131000 Temple members had migrated from California to Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18, 1978, more than 900 Jonestown residents died in the largest mass suicide\/murder in American history.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Using never-before-seen archival footage and survivor interviews, <i>Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple<\/i> tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana to California and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Produced and directed by Stanley Nelson, <i>Jonestown<\/i> will broadcast nationally on public television\u2019s longest-running, most-watched history series, <i>American Experience<\/i>, in 2007. The documentary has already received several awards including the \u201cOutstanding Achievement in Documentary\u201d at 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and the \u201cGolden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Feature Documentary\u201d at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Most recently, <i>Jonestown<\/i> was nominated for the 2006 International Documentary Association Awards. It is currently in limited theatrical release around the country.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Firelight Media intends to use <i>Jonestown<\/i> as a centerpiece in a national outreach campaign leading up to the broadcast to help universities, places of worship, social justice organizations, and museums use the film to facilitate reflection and dialogue on the contradictions that defined the Peoples Temple: faith and zealotry, revolution and utopia, loyalty and coercion, charismatic leadership and demagoguery.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>(Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firelightfilms.tv\/jonestown\">Firelight Media<\/a> to view the trailer for <\/i>Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple<i>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1960s were years of intense social and cultural tumult; it was the Age of Aquarius, when change was in the air, revolution was on the horizon, and all things seemed possible. Some looked to transcendental meditation, free love, Black Power, or LSD. 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