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SOHO Release Party and Film Premiere
Sunday, March 29, 2010
40th Anniversary Release Party & Film Premiere 6-7:45pm
SOHO marks its 40th anniversary with the release of a compelling documentary by Dan Soderberg chronicling its influential history from 1969 through 2009.
The 65-minute documentary features Robert Miles Parker, an artist and art teacher who inadvertently founded SOHO when he hung a sign soliciting help in saving the 1887 Victorian Sherman-Gilbert House. Parker is portrayed as a charismatic leader who foresaw the irreparable damage that indiscriminate redevelopment was wreaking on the historic neighborhoods of San Diego.
"San Diego was hell-bent on destruction," says Parker, who now lives in New York City.
The documentary tells of SOHO's pivotal role in saving architectural icons such as the Santa Fe Depot, Hotel del Coronado, Horton Plaza Park and fountain, Balboa Theatre and Villa Montezuma. It doesn't shy away from some devastating losses - the Klauber House that faced Balboa Park, the Green Dragon Colony in La Jolla, and the T.M. Cobb warehouses in the Gaslamp Quarter - and the lessons the preservation community learned from their demolition.
Bruce Coons, Executive Director since 2001, describes the landmark agreement SOHO and the National Trust for Historic Preservation struck with the City of San Diego and private developers of Petco Park to integrate a 1909 brick warehouse into the new ballpark and preserve 10 others in a nine-block area in San Diego's East Village.
"SOHO has made preservation mainstream," says former president and longtime member David Marshall. In addition to advocacy work, SOHO manages and operates eight historic buildings including three diverse historic museums: the Marston House & Gardens, the Whaley House & Gardens, and the Adobe Chapel.
In conclusion, Coons hails historic preservation as a means to protect American freedom and culture: "These buildings sit there and teach every day."
Soderberg, a UCLA-trained filmmaker based in San Diego, spent nearly a year interviewing SOHO members and staff for the documentary. He also researched the group's four decades of achievements through archives, libraries and hundreds of photographs. A member of SOHO's board of directors since 2008, Soderberg also narrates the documentary and selected its period music.
Tickets (Includes reception & a copy of the presentation DVD)
$15 SOHO Members
$20 Non members
Purchase Advance Tickets
Online HERE
Call SOHO (619) 297-9327 or (619) 297-7511
In person
- Whaley House Museum Shop, 2476 San Diego Avenue - Hours
- Marston House Museum Shop, 3525 Seventh Avenue - Hours
Save Our Heritage Organisation is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization.
40th Anniversary Release Party & Film Premiere 6-7:45pm
SOHO marks its 40th anniversary with the release of a compelling documentary by Dan Soderberg chronicling its influential history from 1969 through 2009.
The 65-minute documentary features Robert Miles Parker, an artist and art teacher who inadvertently founded SOHO when he hung a sign soliciting help in saving the 1887 Victorian Sherman-Gilbert House. Parker is portrayed as a charismatic leader who foresaw the irreparable damage that indiscriminate redevelopment was wreaking on the historic neighborhoods of San Diego.
"San Diego was hell-bent on destruction," says Parker, who now lives in New York City.
The documentary tells of SOHO's pivotal role in saving architectural icons such as the Santa Fe Depot, Hotel del Coronado, Horton Plaza Park and fountain, Balboa Theatre and Villa Montezuma. It doesn't shy away from some devastating losses - the Klauber House that faced Balboa Park, the Green Dragon Colony in La Jolla, and the T.M. Cobb warehouses in the Gaslamp Quarter - and the lessons the preservation community learned from their demolition.
Bruce Coons, Executive Director since 2001, describes the landmark agreement SOHO and the National Trust for Historic Preservation struck with the City of San Diego and private developers of Petco Park to integrate a 1909 brick warehouse into the new ballpark and preserve 10 others in a nine-block area in San Diego's East Village.
"SOHO has made preservation mainstream," says former president and longtime member David Marshall. In addition to advocacy work, SOHO manages and operates eight historic buildings including three diverse historic museums: the Marston House & Gardens, the Whaley House & Gardens, and the Adobe Chapel.
In conclusion, Coons hails historic preservation as a means to protect American freedom and culture: "These buildings sit there and teach every day."
Soderberg, a UCLA-trained filmmaker based in San Diego, spent nearly a year interviewing SOHO members and staff for the documentary. He also researched the group's four decades of achievements through archives, libraries and hundreds of photographs. A member of SOHO's board of directors since 2008, Soderberg also narrates the documentary and selected its period music.
Tickets (Includes reception & a copy of the presentation DVD)
$15 SOHO Members
$20 Non members
Purchase Advance Tickets
Online HERE
Call SOHO (619) 297-9327 or (619) 297-7511
In person
- Whaley House Museum Shop, 2476 San Diego Avenue - Hours
- Marston House Museum Shop, 3525 Seventh Avenue - Hours
Save Our Heritage Organisation is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization.
Come for the Films ~ Come for the View
Have you ever seen a film that made you laugh? Cry? Taught you something about yourself? Or about the world around you? Documentary films play an important part in the way we communicate with one another. DOCUTAH Festival Director, Phil Tuckett, understands this perhaps as well as anyone.
For many years Phil, the mastermind behind DOCUTAH, worked as a producer, director, writer, editor, and cameraman for NFL Films and in 1982 was named Vice President of Special Projects. During his tenure, he won 30 Emmy Awards for shows like "Football America", "The 100 Yard Universe", "Autumn Ritual", and "Lost Treasures of NFL Films". He also produced non-sports related programming like "Blood from a Stone" for the History Channel, "Faces of Evil" for TNT, and music videos for a wide variety of artists including B.B. King, Santana, Def Leppard, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. In addition, Phil and his wife Judy have started their own production company, Bristlecone Films.
Before his career at NFL films, Phil attended Dixie College where he played football and majored in English. He finished his BA at Weber State and played one season for the San Diego Chargers before embarking on a 38-year career at NFL films.
Phil has returned to St. George as an associate professor of digital film and executive director of the Dick Nourse Center for Media Innovation at Dixie State College of Utah. During the past year, CMI has grown from a gleam in the eye of Dr. Randal Chase, chair of the communication department, to a full blown multi-media production unit. All projects in the CMI are student driven with faculty oversight and represent a wonderful blend of academics and real world practical application.
With a film background this rich and his roots going deep into the Southern Utah soil, it was only logical for Phil to want to create a documentary film festival in the canyonlands that he loves. Thus, DOCUTAH was born.
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For many years Phil, the mastermind behind DOCUTAH, worked as a producer, director, writer, editor, and cameraman for NFL Films and in 1982 was named Vice President of Special Projects. During his tenure, he won 30 Emmy Awards for shows like "Football America", "The 100 Yard Universe", "Autumn Ritual", and "Lost Treasures of NFL Films". He also produced non-sports related programming like "Blood from a Stone" for the History Channel, "Faces of Evil" for TNT, and music videos for a wide variety of artists including B.B. King, Santana, Def Leppard, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. In addition, Phil and his wife Judy have started their own production company, Bristlecone Films.
Before his career at NFL films, Phil attended Dixie College where he played football and majored in English. He finished his BA at Weber State and played one season for the San Diego Chargers before embarking on a 38-year career at NFL films.
Phil has returned to St. George as an associate professor of digital film and executive director of the Dick Nourse Center for Media Innovation at Dixie State College of Utah. During the past year, CMI has grown from a gleam in the eye of Dr. Randal Chase, chair of the communication department, to a full blown multi-media production unit. All projects in the CMI are student driven with faculty oversight and represent a wonderful blend of academics and real world practical application.
With a film background this rich and his roots going deep into the Southern Utah soil, it was only logical for Phil to want to create a documentary film festival in the canyonlands that he loves. Thus, DOCUTAH was born.
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