Lee Grant Opens the Film Archives

NEW YORK - July 13, 2015 - PRLog -- Before the days of DVD’s, binge watching, and video on demand, HBO was the place to see documentaries, and Lee Grant was the woman directing them. A perfect marriage for both Grant and HBO, resulting in the historic first Academy Award for HBO. Now, three decades later, the Academy Award winner famous for re-inventing career after career has taken advantage of everything the new millennium, and its New Media, has to offer. The Oscar winning documentary was Down and Out In America, produced by Milton Justice and Grant’s husband, Joseph Feury. Ms. Grant intends to use the best of our New Media platforms, inconceivable during the years of the films’ first lives, to bring her groundbreaking documentary work to a new generation, and a world still very much in need of her legendary voice. Other documentaries being rereleased include What Sex Am I? When Women Kill and Battered. On the heels of the Supreme Courts historic ruling on Same-Sex marriage and the country’s ever shrinking middle-class Grant’s films retain every moment of searing relevance they did during their first runs.


The documentaries will be released initially via Vimeo OnDemand, hosted by Karmic Release, Ltd.
First up: What Sex Am I?
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatsexami

Excepts from the New York Times:

HBO'S 'WHAT SEX AM I?'
By JOHN CORRY
Published: April 18, 1985
''WHAT SEX AM I?'' looks sympathetically at transsexuals and
transvestites, exploring the meaning of gender. How is it defined? The
Home Box Office documentary, neither salacious nor exploitative, finds
ambiguities. It suggests that gender is, and probably should be, beyond
definition.

HBO'S 'DOWN AND OUT'
By JOHN CORRY
Published: December 4, 1985
''DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA'' is clear about its message: The system
has failed, and the American dream has died. The Home Box Office
documentary, directed and narrated by Lee Grant, tolerates no ambiguities,
contradictions or complexities. It has seen the enemy, and it is us.

'WHEN WOMEN KILL,' ON HBO
By JOHN CORRY
Published: September 7, 1983
''WHEN WOMEN KILL,'' a new documentary made for Home Box Office,
could have been called, just as easily, and perhaps more properly, ''Why
Women Kill.'' Women's victims, Lee Grant, the production's narrator, says,
''are almost always someone they once loved.'' By implication, the victims
are males, most of whom, the documentary suggests, are responsible for
their own deaths. In some cases, however, males persuade women to kill
other people for them.

‘BATTERED’ ON HBO
A documentary about real-life victims of domestic violence. In addition to
case studies of women terrorized by their husbands and boyfriends, the
special also features interviews with several men who are undergoing
counseling for battering.