Academy Museum of Motion Pictures features ELCA film A Time for Burning
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles featured A Time for Burning, a film of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The film was shown Dec. 17 as part of the museum series "Works of Enduring Importance: 35 Years of the National Film Registry."
Produced by Lutheran Film Associates in 1966, A Time for Burning is a 58-minute, black-and-white cinema verite documentary that chronicles the struggle between the pastor of Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Neb., and his all-white congregation as he encourages members to reach out to a neighboring Black church. Bill Jersey, one of the pioneers of cinema verite, and Barbara Connell directed the film, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
A Time for Burning was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2005 and remastered in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive. It was re-released in 2023.
