Dory Previn: On My Way to Where | Screening and Panel
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March 19, 2025
Documentary screening and panel online and at the Clairidge Theater in Montclair, NJ
Link for in-person tickets here. To sign up for the virtual screening of the film and panel, click here.
Writing and singing the unvarnished truth about one’s buried secret life experiences is more common today than when Dory Previn wrote brilliant, disturbing, and darkly funny songs in the 1970s. Previn began as an Academy Award nominated lyricist for Hollywood musicals with songs for Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland & Dionne Warwick before a tabloid scandal and public breakdown led to her re-emergence as a cult artist in the Laurel Canyon scene. The film taps archives for a story in Previn’s voice. J. Smith-Cameron (SUCCESSION) reads the voices in Dory’s head from her journals.
Panel Description:
A panel discussion with Co-Director Julia Greenberg and Animator Emily Hubley and IDHA NYC Director Jessie Roth follows the screening, moderated by Karin Jervert (artist and Mad Pride activist). The panel will discuss how artists can respectfully approach the representations of people with lived experience of voices and visions in ways that encourage empowerment over discrimination. Done with curiosity and compassion for the diversity of the human mind, these works of art can serve to increase understanding and healing as well as community engagement and social justice in health.