UNITED STATES
Big Trial
MONDAY, JULY 22, 2013
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
Ken Gumbert, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, chronicles the lives of people who have fought back against historic injustices.
His 1990 documentary, Saving Grace, was about the survivors of a Communist social experiment to exterminate religion in Czechoslovakia, particularly the Catholic Church. His 1992 film, Between Two Worlds, was about a family of Ute Indians struggling to retain their native culture on a Utah reservation, amid rampant alcoholism and drug abuse. His 2003 documentary, Red Terror On The Amber Coast, was about the resistance movement in Lithuania, where people fought to the death against a Soviet campaign of mass arrests, property confiscations, and deportations to forced labor camps in Siberia.
Gumbert was in Philadelphia this week to begin shooting his latest documentary about another group of people fighting historic injustice — Catholic priests in America falsely accused of sex abuse.
It’s a subject that Gumbert is passionate about. He’s a Catholic priest of 28 years, and a member of a Dominican order. He’s also a film studies professor at Providence College in Rhode Island.
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