PLAYING IN THE FM BAND: THE STEVE POST STORY
TUES, 12/6, 3:00pm, 90 min BAY STREET THEATER
Q/A with Director Rosemarie Reed and Andrew Botsford
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Director: Rosemarie Reed
Producer: Rosemarie Reed
Editor: Dina Potocki
Cinematographer: Jonathan Smith
Steve Post, a Jewish kid born in 1944 in the Bronx, was an overweight, hapless nebbish who had a complicated childhood. His mother died of cancer when he was 10 years old, after which he and his older brother spent two years in a Dickensian boarding school, where he was taunted and mercilessly bullied. Back at home, he found escape from his dreary existence in creating radio programs. Ignoring strict parental prohibitions, Post surreptitiously used his father’s reel- to-reel tape recorder to create and host radio programs. Eventually, in 1966, he realized his childhood dream at Pacifica Radio’s WBAI-FM in New York City, becoming a successful cult radio personality with “The Outside,” an innovative all-night, live, free-form broadcast heard Saturday nights for some 15 years.
Rosemarie Reed travels the world to film her highly acclaimed documentaries. Some of her films document the lives of scientists such as Irène Joliot-Curie and Frederic Joliot Curie and Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn. Others include historical figures and world leaders, such as Mikhail Gorbachev.
Film sponsored by Leslie and Andrew Siben