Dawn Logsdon

Dawn Logsdon

DAWN LOGSDON's career has been dedicated to making films about civic issues and city life, particularly at the neighborhood level. She directed and produced Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008) which premiered nationally at the Tribeca International Film Festival. It went on to win the SFIFF Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary and was a PBS Black History Month feature presentation three years in a row. Dawn co-directed and edited Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013) and Lindy Boggs: Steel and Velvet (2008). Dawn edited the Sundance Award-winning Paragraph 175 by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Freidman, Academy Award-nominated Weather Underground by Sam Green, Emmy award-winning Have You Heard from Johannesburg? by Connie Field, the Peabody award-winning The Castro by Peter Stein and the critically-acclaimed feature-length essay films The Joy of Life and The Royal Road by Jenni Olson. Short films Dawn produced and directed include Tomboy, which was exhibited at the Whitney Museum and aired on PBS. Dawn received a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley. Her honors include a Soros OSI Media Fellowship, California Arts Council Artist Residency, BAVC Media Maker Award, Djerassi Artist Residency, Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center Artist Fellowship, and the New Orleans Arts Council Award.

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Dawn Logsdon Movies

  • 2000
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    Paragraph 175

    Paragraph 175

    6.485 2000 HD

    During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code....

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  • 2002
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    Hope Along the Wind: The Story of Harry Hay

    Hope Along the Wind: The Story of Harry Hay

    4 2002 HD

    Harry Hay was one of the founding fathers of the gay rights movement, and for more than 50 years was synonymous with the term "gay pride." Director...

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  • 1997
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    Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Castro

    Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Castro

    1 1997 HD

    Now known internationally as the world's first "gay hometown," San Francisco's Castro District was a quiet, working-class neighborhood of European...

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  • 2025
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    Free for All: The Public Library

    Free for All: The Public Library

    1 2025 HD

    The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library...

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  • 2008
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    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

    1 2008 HD

    The true story of the neighborhood that inspired David Simon's fictional HBO television series "Tremé", from slave revolts and underground...

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  • 2015
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    The Royal Road

    The Royal Road

    4.875 2015 HD

    A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of...

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  • 1998
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    Blue Diary

    Blue Diary

    4.5 1998 HD

    Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

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  • 2025
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    Free for All: The Public Library

    Free for All: The Public Library

    1 2025 HD

    The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library...

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  • 2008
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    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

    1 2008 HD

    The true story of the neighborhood that inspired David Simon's fictional HBO television series "Tremé", from slave revolts and underground...

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