Jim Klein

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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.

Film	Credit
Taken for a Ride1996 · Narrator, Director	Narrator, Director
Letter to the Next Generation1990 · Director	Director
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists1983 · Director	Director
Union Maids1976 · Director	Director
MMethadone: An American Way of Dealing1974 · Director	Director
Growing Up Female1971 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer