Optimist Club travelogue series ends in March
The final film in the Bay City Noon Optimist Club Travel & Adventure Cinema Series documents the life and work of Sebastião Salgado. It is narrated by his son, Juliano Salgado, and Wim Wenders.
The Bay City Noon Optimist Club Travel & Adventure Cinema Series concludes its 32nd season on Mon., March 24 at 7 p.m. at the State Theatre with “The Salt of the Earth,” narrated by Juliano Salgado and Wim Wenders.
Photographer Sebastião Salgado, the son of a Brazilian cattle rancher, studied economics at Sao Paulo University, earning a Master’s Degree in 1968. The film documents his life and work.
While working for the Ministry of Finance, Salgado joined the popular movement against Brazil’s military government. Seen as a political radical, he was exiled in 1969 and fled with his wife to France.
While on assignment in Rwanda for the International Coffee Organization, he took his first life-changing photographs and became a freelance photojournalist in 1973.
Major sponsors of the film series include: Robert and Linda Hafford, Paramount Rehabilitation, Summit Printing & Graphics, Lake Michigan Credit Union, and Prime Brothers Furniture.
Tckets are available for $10 in advance at Herter Music and the State Theatre or at the door. For more information, call (989) 893-9578 or visit the Bay City Noon Optimist website.
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