Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune screens in Vancouver

Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (USA 2010. Director: Kenneth Bowser, 97 mins) screening at Vancouver's Pacific Cinematheque, July 29 to August 3. The film traces the turbulent personal and profession life of a talented, charismatic figure whose songs, more timely perhaps than timeless, helped define a tumultuous era — and whose contradictory desire for fame and fortune, on the one hand, and social justice, on the other, may have torn him apart. Featuring Joan Baez, Tom Hayden, Pete Seeger, Sean Penn, Peter Yarrow, Christopher Hitchens. Details online at: http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/phil-ochs-there-but-for-fortune and trailer at: http://youtu.be/WUAH0C1NcCI.