Gold Coast Arts and North Shore TV Present “Life & Larry Brown”

Gold Coast Arts, a non-profit multi-arts organization dedicated to promoting the arts through education, exhibition, performance, and outreach, and North Shore TV, are pleased to present “Life & Larry Brown,” a powerful and moving documentary from New York filmmaker Scott D. Rosenbaum, the award-winning director of “Sidemen: Long Road To Glory.” “Life & Larry Brown” had its virtual world premiere on March 27, 2020, as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival’s year-round film screening program. The screening will include a post-film Q&A with Rosenbaum and Gold Coast Arts Founder and Executive Director Regina Gil.

The free film and Q&A will be presented on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 6:30 p.m. beginning on April 25, 2020, and running through May 17, 2020, on Optimum channel 20, and Verizon FiOS channel 37. “Life & Larry Brown” can also be seen simultaneously on North Shore TV’s website, www.nstv.org, and can be viewed free anytime through April 30, 2020, on the Gold Coast Art’s website. www.goldcoastarts.org. North Shore TV serves the Great Neck/North Shore area of Nassau County.

Larry Brown, who sadly passed away on April 20, 2020, from complications related to the COVID-19 virus, was born in 1953 in Forsyth, Georgia, a town steeped in oppression and racism. “Life & Larry Brown” is a deeply moving 37-minute film that follows Larry as he reflects on a tumultuous life that led to a murder conviction, subsequent 34-year prison sentence and the salvation that his mother’s love and a guitar provided. Music was the game-changer for Larry Brown and helped him survive 34 years, across seven different prisons and five parole denials.

While its doors remain temporarily closed due to coronavirus restrictions, Gold Coast Arts is providing online classes and private lessons in all the visual and performing arts as well as online films, concerts, and other enrichment activities. To learn more about all of its virtual arts programs, visit goldcoastarts.org.

About the Gold Coast Arts Center
The Gold Coast Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) multi-arts organization dedicated to promoting the arts through education, exhibition, performance, and outreach. For a quarter-century, it has brought the arts to tens of thousands of people throughout the Long Island region. Among the Center’s offerings are its School for the Arts, which holds year-round classes in visual and performing arts for students of all ages and abilities; a free public art gallery; a concert and lecture series; film screenings and discussions; the annual Gold Coast International Film Festival; and initiatives that focus on senior citizens and underserved communities. These initiatives include artist residencies, after-school programs, school assemblies, teacher-training workshops, and parent-child workshops. The Gold Coast Arts Center’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Gold Coast Arts Center is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts “Partners in Education” program and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.goldcoastarts.org.