Films Edited by Jim Klein

Films edited by Jim Klein have received Academy Award Nominations, a Prime Time Emmy Award for Documentary and won numerous awards at leading international film festivals, and have been nationally broadcast on POV, Independent Lens and HBO and internationally broadcast in more than a dozen countries. Selected Documentary Films Edited by Jim Klein A Lion […]

Films by Jim Klein

Jim Klein’s pioneering documentary films have garnered two Academy Award nominations, national PBS broadcasts, screenings and awards at top tier festivals, reviews in the New York Times, Village Voice, Time Magazine, Ms. Magazine and scores of other national periodicals and academic journals, and can be found in the permanent collections of hundreds of university libraries. […]

About Jim Klein

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 […]

Letter to the Next Generation

(Klein, 1990) »DVD/streaming purchasing options at NEW DAY FILMS A passionate exploration of student apathy vs activism at the dawn of the Reagan era. Jim Klein, a student of the 1960s, returns to college to take an eye-opening look at the values and aspirations of college students, probing behind the stereotypes to ponder the forces […]

Methadone: An American Way of Dealing

(Klein and Reichert, 1974) »For availability information, contact filmmaker. In the early seventies, more money was spent on methadone than on any other form of drug treatment for heroin addiction, and today methadone maintenance continues to be a government sanctioned, medically approved strategy for treating heroin/opioid addictions. Methadone: An American Way of Dealing brings us […]