Frederick Wiseman's "At Berkeley", which recently played at the Venice, Toronto, and New York FF, will open in theaters in NY today, November 8th (IFC Center and Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center) and then in LA on November 15th (Laemmle Music Hall) before a national platform release.
AT BERKELEY is a documentary film about the University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system and one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world.
The film shows the major aspects of university life with particular emphasis on the administrative efforts to maintain the academic excellence, public role, and the economic, racial and social diversity of the student body of America's premier public university in the face of drastic budgetary cuts imposed by the State of California. AT BERKELEY shows how a major American university is administered and suggests the complex relationship among its various constituencies - students, faculty, administrators, alumni, the City of Berkeley, the State of California and the federal government.
