About the Filmmakers

Filmmakers
Alice Day
Lincoln Day
Production Staff

• Sandy Cannon-Brown
• Dan Gallagher

Alice T. Day
Co-director,
Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives

Born in New York City; educated at the Brearley School in New York and at Smith College (BA, magna cum laude), Columbia (MA in sociology), and the Australian National University (PhD in sociology).

Current appointments and memberships include:

• Board member, Council for a Livable World
• Board member and chair, Task Force on Environment and Natural Resources, Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington)
• Member, Cosmopolitan Club (New York)
• Advisory Board member, Environmental Film Festival (Washington)

Before moving to Washington, was most recently Hofstee Fellow, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, 1994, and Director, Successful Ageing, A.C.T., an Australian federal government project, Canberra, A.C.T., 1990-93.

Best known books of the more than 30 books, professional articles, book chapters, and reports that she has written are: Remarkable Survivors -- Insights into Successful Aging among Women (Washington: Urban Institute Press, 1991, 314 pp), 'We Can Manage'--Expectations about Care and Varieties of Family Support among Persons 75 Years of Age and Over   (Melbourne: Institute of Family Studies, 1985, 168 pp), and (with Lincoln H. Day) Too Many Americans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964, 298 pp, paperback ed., New York: Dell, 1965).

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