Wednesday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket prices are as follows: Carte Blanche Members: FREE, Members: $6, Students & Seniors: $8, Nonmembers: $11. Call the Avon business office at 203-661-0321 or the box office at 203-967-3660, x2 for tickets.
ABOUT THE FILM: Doc Pomus’ dramatic life is one of American music’s great untold stories. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus. He then emerged as a one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and roll era, writing “Save the Last Dance for Me,†“This Magic Moment,†“A Teenager in Love,†“Viva Las Vegas,†and dozens of other hits. Spearheaded and co-produced by his daughter Sharyn Felder and packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, this documentary features interviews with collaborators and friends including Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Leiber and Stoller, and B.B. King, as well as passages from Doc’s private journals read by his close friend Lou Reed. 
Not Rated | In English | 99 minutes
ABOUT SHARYN FELDER: Sharyn Felder (Doc’s daughter) was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, long before it was a hipster’s paradise – living in the same apartment in which her father was raised, until a bullet pierced her crib, forcing her parents to attempt a brief stint in suburbia. Her exposure to Tin Pan Alley began at a young age, when she spent weekends at the legendary Forest Hotel, opposite the Brill Building, where her father lived part time and held court in the lobby.
Sharyn earned an MFA in photography from the New York University/International Center of Photography graduate program and was active as a fine-art photographer/artist, exhibiting her work throughout the New York area and also working as a commercial photographer. She has taught photography at NYU, Marymount Manhattan College, and Fordham University.

Sharyn has been the force behind various projects honoring her father’s life and music. She served as co-executive producer on a tribute album, “Till the Night Is Gone,†for Rhino Records’ that contained performances of her father’s songs by artists such as Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Lou Reed, Dr. John and Rosanne Cash. She began working on a documentary of her father some years prior to being contacted by Will Hechter, who reached out to her and put together the talented production team that made this documentary a reality. She with her husband Will Bratton is currently developing a Broadway show based on her dad’s life story and has several exciting film projects in the works.
ABOUT PETER MILLER: Peter Miller is an award-winning documentary maker. His previous films include JEWS AND BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, released theatrically in 2010; A CLASS APART, for PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE; SACCO AND VANZETTI, released in theaters in 2007; and THE INTERNATIONALE, short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. He has been a producer on numerous documentaries by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, including the THE WAR and JAZZ, as well as the Peabody Award-winning FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.

Peter has also been a producer on many other acclaimed documentaries, including THE UPRISING OF ’34, PASSIN’ IT ON (winner of twenty film festival prizes), and the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN DREAM. He is currently directing and producing two new documentaries: REFUGEE KIDS: ONE SMALL SCHOOL TAKES ON THE WORLD, and SOSÚA: MAKE A BETTER WORLD.
ABOUT THE AVON: The Avon Theatre is a member-supported, non-profit cultural hub, dedicated to presenting film in its highest form, and thriving because of the support of our patrons and community. In addition to an exciting slate of new releases, The Avon brings you one-of-a-kind special events and monthly programs. We are proud to provide a forum for in-person, community dialogue with directors, actors and other luminaries in a vibrant “Main Street America†setting.
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