Yasha Aginsky

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Banjo Tales Trailer

Documentary filmmaker and film teacher, Yasha Aginsky lives and works in San Francisco. During his career as a director and editor, his work has twice been nominated for Academy Awards (1986, Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo and 1991, Forever Activists) and the films he has produced with his wife, Carrie D'Inzillo Aginsky, have won awards in many festivals including Cine International, American Film Festival, National Educational Media Network, Silver Images in the USA and at the Bilan de film ethnographique, Paris. Since 1997, Yasha and Carrie have made Full Circle; Bratsch at Work (Rendez-Vous avec Bratsch); Wine From the Heart (Les Raisins du Coeur); Wine From the Rhone (Vins du Rhone), and Yasha has made Always Been a Rambler (produced by The Arhoolie Foundation). He was also the editor of Outsider, The Life and Art of Judith Scott (Betsy Bayha) and of Granny D Goes to Washington (Alidra Solday).

Most Popular Yasha Aginsky Trailers

Total trailers found: 12

Cowboy Poets Trailer (1988)

07 April 1988

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history.

A Matter of Degrees Trailer (1991)

13 September 1991

Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to get a little crazy.

Spirit of the Land: Hawai'i: Continuing Traditions Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

The Hawaiian people have a rich historical and cultural tradition. Their values, art, music, gods and legends reach back thousands of years to ancient Polynesia, where they lived before sailing to the islands we know as Hawai‘'i.

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Trailer (1985)

01 September 1985

1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey Trailer (1999)

06 May 1999

This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing canoes, learn how to follow the stars across the open ocean, and embark upon a 2,000-mile voyage in the wake of their ancestors.

Educating For Life Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

An overview of waldorf education from the Sacramento Waldorf School.

Our School Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Presents a glimpse of Waldorf principles through scenes filmed at the San Francisco Waldorf Kindergarten.

Our Nazi Trailer (1984)

27 January 1984

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature Wundkanal (1984), in which true-life ex-SS officer Alfred Filbert, now very old, is ‘put on trial’ for the camera, without him suspecting what is to come or why he is really there.

Diesel Trailer (1985)

07 August 1985

A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.

Banjo Tales Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

In 2009, filmmaker Yasha Aginsky accompanied the great old-time musician Mike Seeger and his wife Alexia on recording trips through the Southeastern United States, documented by Yasha and his assistant, Slava Basovich.

Homemade American Music Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

A history of rural southeastern traditional American music, as told and played by Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard.

Always Been a Rambler Trailer (2020)

31 March 2020

A film by Yasha Aginsky This hour-long documentary celebrates fifty years of the New Lost City Ramblers (Mike Seeger, John Cohen, Tracy Schwarz and Tom Paley.