Acting credits
1
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Jim Klein
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 6Series: 1Crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 48529
IMDb ID: nm0458822
Known for: Directing
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1971 - 2008
Years active: 38
Wikidata: Q50313670
Other jobs
Director (6)Editor (1)
Biography
Jim Klein has been an active member of the independent film movement since the early 1970s. He is a founder of the pioneering film distribution co-operative New Day Films and active in the filmmaker organizations that shaped the field. With partner, Julia Reichert, he created such innovative documentaries as Growing Up Female, the first documentary about women from a feminist perspective, which was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress; Academy Award nominee Union Maids, one of the first oral history films; and Academy Award nominee Seeing Red, a challenging film about American communists. His films Letter to the Next Generation and Taken for a Ride both had national broadcasts on PBS’s flagship POV series.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jim Klein.
6.2
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Editor
2008 Movie
6.1
Taken for a Ride
as Narrator
1996 Movie
Letter to the Next Generation
Director
1990 Movie
6.3
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
Director
1983 Movie
6.5
Union Maids
Director
1976 Movie
5.7
Growing Up Female
Director
1971 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jim Klein.
