DocNight: I Am Secretly an Important Man

USA, 2010, 87 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subject: Documentary
Language: English

Special DocNight presentation Thursday, October 13th at 7pm
Director Peter Sillen In-Person for a post film Q&A and reception!
Digital presentation - I Am Secretly An Important Man is a feature length documentary film portrait of Steven J. Bernstein (aka Jesse Bernstein), one of Seattle's most celebrated voices. His angry, surprisingly fresh, lyrical writings are about sensitive souls, drifters and drug addicts; people alienated by a society that refuses to understand them. He peeled back the ugliness and the darkness of life on the fringe to expose tender and not so tender human feeling. His unique rhythms, filled with humor and pain, were especially exciting when read in his own gravely voice. People packed into theaters, bars and cafes to hear him read and sing. Unfortunately much of Jesse's work has not yet found the audience it deserves outside of the Pacific Northwest.

DIRECTOR: Peter Sillen
US Distributor: Cinemad

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