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The Blinking Madonna & Other Miracles

Filmmaker Beth Harrington is sucked into a media vortex when she accidentally captures "the miracle of the Blinking Madonna" on video during an Italian American religious feast, leading her to explore myth and faith in the lives of American Catholic women, including herself.

Premiere Date

April 1, 1997

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Nominee

1996 South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) - Finalist

Beth Harrington

Producer

Beth Harrington is an award-winning independent producer, director, and writer, born in Boston and transplanted to the Pacific Northwest. She has been making media professionally since 1977. Her independent production Welcome to the Club — The Women of Rockabilly, a music documentary about the pioneering women of rock and roll, was honored with a 2003 Grammy nomination and has been seen on public television and at film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. In a previous lifetime, she was a rock & roll singer, most noted for her years as a member of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers on the Warner Brothers Sire Records label. She is in post-production on The Winding Stream – The Carters, The Cashes and the Course of Country Music, a music history and performance film. The film features members of the Carter and Cash families and includes an interview with the legendary Johnny Cash.