Pete and Toshi Get a Camera

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 88 min
  • Premiere: 2015. May 28.

55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming their musician friends. After several years of making small films, they decide to take the family around-the-world to film musicians in the most remote corners of the earth. The historic 16mm footage is intercut with modern day interviews of the family as they lend insight into a time & place that doesn't exist today. Part travelogue, part musical odyssey, part ethnocentric dream, "Pete and Toshi Get a Camera" will take you places you would never have imagined.

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Crew

Bobby Shepard

Cinematography

Directing

William Eigen

Director

Production

Rand Levy

Executive Producer

Daniel Seeger

Executive Producer

Writing

William Eigen

Screenplay

Crew

Bobby Shepard

Cinematography

Directing

William Eigen

Director

Production

Rand Levy

Executive Producer

Daniel Seeger

Executive Producer

Writing

William Eigen

Screenplay