Screening and discussion: The Untold Story of Betty Reid Soskin

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Join local filmmaker Sara Lafleur-Vetter at South Lake Brewing Company for a FREE exclusive sneak peek of “Sign My Name to Freedom,” a feature documentary about iconic National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, her hidden life as a singer-songwriter, and her family’s experiences confronting Jim Crow-style segregation on the West Coast.

This viewing will be held on Wednesday, March 20 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. at South Lake Brewing Company in South Lake Tahoe

Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin Director: Bryan Gibel | Co-Director: AK Sandhu

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-discussion-the-untold-story-of-betty-reid-soskin-tickets-861210282137?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

This event is child & pet-friendly and Get Rad Pizza food truck will be at the Brewery to provide pizza!

Betty gained fame as the oldest Park Ranger in the country after starting that job at the age of 85, and she continued working at the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site as an interpretive oral historian until she retired at 100. Through her experience as a WWII file clerk for an all-black union auxiliary in Richmond, she helped to reshape the national narrative about home front segregation in the workplace, labor unions, and in the armed forces.

The documentary takes Betty’s work for the Park Service as its jumping off point, and then it explores lesser-known aspects of her personal story, focusing in large part on her family’s role as the first African Americans to cross the color line into Walnut Creek, and her hidden life as a singer/songwriter in the years that followed. The film also looks at Betty’s journey in her 90s to reexplore the music she left behind fifty years earlier and her collaborations with younger musicians to give her songs life again.

Following the 25-minute preview of the documentary, join Producer Sara Lafleur-Vetter for a Q&A and DIscussion via Zoom with Director and Producer Bryan Gibel about the making of the film, as well as Betty's Daughter Di'ara Reid & Granddaughter Alyana Reid who can tell us the behind-the-scenes story of growing up with Betty.

The film team is currently raising funds through a crowdfunding campaign to complete the documentary while Betty is still with us to experience it, which she very much hopes can happen. Their goal is to finish the project by the end of this year. Although Betty is doing well at 102, the clock is ticking given her advanced age. There's a little bit of time left to support the campaign until it wraps in mid-March. If you can't attend, please consider supporting this incredible documentary!

Support the making of the documentary: https://seedandspark.com/fund/sign-my-name-to-freedom#story

Documentary Trailer: https://vimeo.com/858289902/745443a01e?embed_email_provider=gmail

Sign up for the films’ newsletter: www.signmynametofreedom.com

Location