City Lights

FAIN: TD-266339-19

Media Process Educational Films (Chicago, IL 60607-1913)
Starr Sutherland (Project Director: January 2019 to February 2025)

Development of a one-hour documentary on San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore and the poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919).

This is a request for $75,000 to research and script a one-hour documentary on City Lights Bookstore and Book Publishing. The iconic bookstore in San Francisco is best known as home of The Beats, but its enduring legacy has been a 65-year commitment to publishing and promoting progressive ideas that foster a more humane culture.