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  • Margaret Fuller.
  • Genius
  • Antebellum Victorian
  • Iconoclast
  • Transcendentalist
  • Trailblazing feminist
  • Conversationalist and teacher of women
  • Writer, editor, and literary critic
  • First American European war correspondent
  • In the end: utopian revolutionary.

Fuller up close and personal

  • Blazes a path for women’s equality with love, intensity, personal toil, great deeds, and loss.

  • Consorts with leading thinkers of the Victorian Era.

  • Critiques the world around her. Abrasive in delivery, Fuller evokes both jealous disdain and admiration.

  • Hothoused by father.
  • Gender blocked from attending Harvard.
  • Amidst life in the Victorian era, navigates a male-dominated world on the strength of intellect.
  • Cuts a swath through the Transcendentalist movement as critic, editor and journalist.
  • Develops a body of theory on cultures and subjectivities; transforms feminist issues and 19th Century literature.
  • Shoulders the responsibility for renegotiating the social contract.
  • Delivers conversations for antebellum women, teaching on topics from Greek mythology to survival as a single woman.
  • Artists, writers, and revolutionaries cross paths with Fuller in the salons of Boston, Paris and Rome.
  • Meets a tragic end after sacrificing everything for the democratic idealism of the Italian revolution and a scandalous love affair.
  • At the time of her death is the most famous woman of the 19th Century and a trans-Atlantic celebrity.

The Film

With exceptional perspective from leading biographers, animated archival wealth, and an original score, the work unpacks the paradox of Margaret Fuller with insight and vigor.

Core Production Team

Jonathan Schwartz, Director
in collaboration with researchers and craftspeople listed in the credit roll, and including…

Story concept and lead funder
Peter Reilly, Risorgimento Productions, LLC
Additional
Deana Holmes and Wanda Urbanska
Humanities funding
Mass Foundation, Katherine Stevens
Development
Jennifer Raymond and Carol Kopelman
Producer/writers
Nan Bryne and Chloe Harrison Y. with Angela Yang
Additional
Deana Holmes and Wanda Urbanska
Eminent scholars
Megan Marshall, Charles Capper, Leslie Eckel, and Kathryn Kornacki
Locations
Bethany Czerny
DPs
Erik Angra and Johan Grimm
Gaffer
Walter Stone
AD
Darian Stansbury
Photographer
Jan Puccelli
Editors
Anton Nikolayev, Mike Sullivan, Bob Ebener
Pilot Editors
Vivian Williams, Ken Kinna, Andrea Fuentes, and Monica Cohen
Audio Mixologists
Aaron Bouchard, Raziel Panic, and Spencer Cardillo
Musicians
Mandy Kowara and Youngjin Kwag
Italian Unit
Reverend Jenny Rankin, Mario Bannoni, and Alison Ercolani
Web Developer
Jonathan Dowse

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