
Overview
West 47th Street is a documentary film produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples of the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media. "West 47th Street" is an intimate cinéma vérité portrait of four people with serious mental illness as their lives naturally unfold over a three-year period beginning in spring 2001. The characters are all members of Fountain House, a psychiatric rehabilitation programme located on West 47th Street in a part of New York City once known as Hell's Kitchen. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, West 47th Street provided an unprecedented window on the lives of people who are often feared and ignored, seldom understood. The film features Fitzroy Fredericks; Zeinab Wali; Nathanial "Tex" Gordon; and Frances Olivero. The film highlights the faith and courage with which these four people fight to regain control of their lives. Viewers see them on and off the streets, in and out of the hospital, on and off medication, at home and at work.
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16 - 1Discovering Dominga July 08, 2003
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16 - 2Georgie Girl June 22, 2003
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16 - 3The Flute Player July 22, 2003
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16 - 490 Miles July 29, 2003
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16 - 5American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i August 05, 2003
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16 - 6West 47th Street August 19, 2003
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16 - 7Family Fundamentals August 26, 2003
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16 - 8Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth Section September 02, 2003
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16 - 9State of Denial September 16, 2003
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16 - 10What I Want My Words to Do to You December 16, 2003
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16 - 11Larry v. Lockney July 01, 2003
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16 - 12Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas June 29, 2004
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16 - 13Love & Diane April 21, 2004