{"id":2875,"date":"2008-09-09T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/a-day-like-no-other.html"},"modified":"2008-09-09T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:50:00","slug":"a-day-like-no-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/a-day-like-no-other.html","title":{"rendered":"A Day like no other"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months back, I posted some news<\/a> about a documentary on Dorothy Day that is now being made available. With Day’s name once again popping up in the news<\/a>, I thought I’d re-post the trailer for the film below. <\/p>\n

Also, Catholic News Service has just filed a brief item<\/a> about the producer of the documentary:<\/p>\n

Claudia Larson didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to produce a documentary on Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, but she did it anyway.<\/p>\n

Since debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2006, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dorothy Day: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Call Me a Saint\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has been slowly making the rounds to parishes, schools, colleges and anywhere else people want to learn more about the the woman who devoted her life to hospitality with homeless and marginalized people. <\/p>\n

Larson says it took 14 years to finish the 55-minute documentary.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to do it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Larson, who lives in Hollywood, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was not my idea. It was her (Day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s) idea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Although Larson never met the woman who has inspired the opening of dozens of Catholic Worker houses of hospitality around the world, she felt called to portray the Day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life in a way that no one else had. But why so long?<\/p>\n

She didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to go about such a project. Every time Larson approached a filmmaker she was turned away. It was discouraging, she admits. But she maintains that Day kept leading her to other sources.<\/p>\n

Larson eventually started her own production company, lucky dog productions (named for her dog, Lucky). Then she had to find people who could help her through the process of researching Day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life, writing the script, scoring the music, recording interviews and editing the interviews into the final product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can visit Larson’s website<\/a> for more information on how to get copies of the film. <\/p>\n

Here’s the trailer: <\/p>\n

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