Westbeth Movie Night
Finding Vivian Maier

When: Thursday Feb 27, 2020 at 7PM
Where: Westbeth Community Room. 155 Bank St b/w West and Washington Sts, enter through courtyard

Westbeth Movie Night is a free open-to-the public monthly series of screenings of curated films

Finding Vivian Maier is a 2013 American documentary film about the photographer Vivian Maier, who working most of her life as a nanny and housekeeper, took over 100,000 photographs secretly and hid them in lockers until they were discovered decades later. She is now considered one of the greatest 20th century American photographers.

The film documents how Maloof, the film’s co- director, discovered her work in a box of photo negatives at a 2007 Chicago auction, then scanned the images and put them on the Internet, which inspired a Kickstarter campaign to produce a film of her work,

Upon release, the film received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 87th Academy Awards.