“We’re Alive” Among 25 Films Selected for Preservation in National Film Registry

We’re Alive, restored by UCLA, made by UCLA students, and presented last year at the Wilder at the Hammer with the CSW|Streisand Center and UCLA Film & Television Archive, was named by the Librarian of Congress to the National Film Registry. The Librarian selects just 25 films a year – from all of film history – that represent the breadth and diversity of American film culture.

This year’s list includes other UCLA student films (Cruisin’ J-Town (Duane Kubo, 1980), and Passing Through (Larry Clark, also restored by UCLA), as well as Hollywood features Apollo 13, Home Alone, and Love and Basketball (by Bruin Gina Prince-Bythewood).

We’re Alive unflinchingly captures the voices of a group of women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in the 1970s — and is now considered an important source by scholars studying feminist media and women’s incarceration.