Dirs. Veronica Selver/Sharon Wood
In 1949, America's first listener-sponsored, community radio station.
KPFA, began broadcasting from Berkeley, California. The station quickly
became a living testament to free speech and cultural diversity - a vital community
of the air that often found itself embroiled in conflict. KPFA On The Air takes us
through the station's passionate fifty-year history, from its founding by pacifists
and poets, through its defiance of Cold War conformity, to the present day challenges
that confront this unique, on-going experiment in democratic media. Speakers at evening
screenings, including Andrea Lewis, Kris Welch, C.S.Soong and historian Matthew Lasar. (digital;60m)
