Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXX - Cathy Crane

Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews Cathy Crane Unoccupied Zone The Impossible Life of Simone Weil explores the life and thought of one of the most compelling and contradictory spiritual thinkers of our times. A pacifist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, a former Marxist who discovered the value in religion, a Jew and a Christian who refused to be baptized - these contradictions are explored in the film. The filmmaker, Cathy Crane, worked for 10 years as a stage manager of experimental Off-Off Broadway plays and worked in the music business coordinating international tours for Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. Her short experimental films have won numerous awards and she was one of four individuals who received the prestigious Eastman Kodak Scholarship in 1997 as one of the nations most promising talents of the future generation of filmmakers.