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Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives (2019)

Directed by Jim Brown

Overview

A documentary revisiting the career of a feisty activist musician, who never quite achieved the same recognition as her similar contemporaries Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.  Experience the power of song in the struggle for equality through the story of feminist singer and activist Holly Near, who for the last 40 years has worked on global social justice coalition-building in the women’s and lesbian movements.

Rated NR | Length 63 minutes

Actors

Holly Near | Jane Fonda | Gloria Steinem | Margie Adam | Karen Anderson | Kevin Bacon | Melanie DeMore | Christelle Durandy | Tom Hayden | Pat Hunt | Fredrika Keefer | Krissy Keefer | Timothy Near | Torie Osborn | Julie M. Thompson