FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 – 7:30 P.M.

Director Rick Goldsmith will join the audience for a Q&A following the 7:30 p.m. screening of STRIPPED FOR PARTS: AMERICAN JOURNALISM ON THE BRINK on Friday, December 1. Presented by Friends of The Ross and the Norman Geske Cinema Showcase. Tickets for this event are at regular Ross prices and available online and at the Ross box office. 

RICK GOLDSMITH (Director/Producer)

Rick Goldsmith’s mission is to tell stories that encourage social engagement and active participation in community life and the democratic process, and to stimulate young minds to question the world around them. Born and raised in the suburbs of New York City, Goldsmith came west in 1975 and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. Trained in architecture, music and community activism, he started working in films in 1979 and made his living for years as an editor. Goldsmith is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS); and Writers Guild of America, West.

Goldsmith is a two-time Academy Award nominee. He co-produced and co-directed (with Judith Ehrlich) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009), an Academy-Award nominee for Best Feature Documentary, an Emmy nominee, and winner of a George Foster Peabody award (for its POV nationwide broadcast on PBS).

STRIPPED FOR PARTS: AMERICAN JOURNALISM ON THE BRINK (Showing at The Ross Dec 1-7)

In 2015, reporter Julie Reynolds began investigating this hedge fund that had bought her own small-town daily along with more than 100 other newspapers nationwide. She exposed how these self-described “vulture capitalists” would strip the newspapers of their real estate, gut their newsrooms and run away with the profits. Reynolds’ reporting reached The Denver Post’s Chuck Plunkett, whose subsequent editorial criticizing Alden would trigger the “Denver Rebellion.