GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT

JULY 19

Georgia O’Keeffe: the Brightness of Light a new film about the life and art of an American icon.

with Q and A with producers paul Wagner & Ellen Casey Wagner

Georgia O’Keeffe is widely revered as the “Mother of American Modernism” and the greatest woman artist of the 20th century. In the 1920s, O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. She posed nude for shocking photographs by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz. But she denied the widespread belief that her paintings depicted sexual imagery. In the 1970s, living in her beloved New Mexico, she emerged as an iconic role model for American women.

This feature documentary film stars Claire Danes as the Voice of Georgia O’Keeffe with narration by Hugh Dancy.

About Paul Wagner & Ellen Casey Wagner

Paul and Ellen Wagner formed American Focus in 1989 which is their non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of documentary films about America and her people. Since then, they have released over thirty films, including several feature
films broadcast nationally on public television: Out of Ireland, about the history of Irish
emigration to America; Good Work, about master craftsmen in the building arts; Black
in Blue, about the four football players at the University of Kentucky who broke the color
line in the Southeastern Conference and Windhorse, their award-winning dramatic feature film
about young Tibetans and their struggle for freedom under the Chinese communist regime,
filmed secretly in China and Nepal.