Zeiger Follows High Schoolers Zeiger Follows High Schoolers
The Bi-Coastal David Zeiger traveled from Los Angeles to him former home, Atlanta, just to get a good seat. IMAGE brought Zeiger's documentary series to the Georgia Pacific's auditorium for a screening in March. Two half hour epi sodes of Zeiger's 13 part documentary series, "Senior Year," were screened. The documentary, currently airing on PBS and on GPTV (in the coveted 12:30 a.m. Friday night spot), follows a groups of students at Fairfax High in Los Angeles through their 1999/2000 senior year. In a story by Creative Loafing's Felicia Feaster, the documentary received a glowing review, "'Senior Year' gets its hooks in immediately, leaving viewers like a marlin wiggling on a lure in anticipation of next week's installment 'Senior Year' features a fantastically diverse group (of kids) with real, meaty stories to tell."
Zeiger's first film, "Displaced in the New South," aired on PBS. The film explored Atlanta from the point of view of Vietnamese and Mexican immigrants, and is the only film to be awarded a Regional Designation Award from the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad. It has aired internationally on NBC-Asia and SBS-TV in Australia, and received awards from the Latin American Studies Association and National Educational Film and Video Competition. The film was the inspiration for the Indigo Girls' single "Shame on You." Z eiger was awarded the Atlanta Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts in 1997 for his work and was named "Best Filmmaker in Atlanta" that same year by Atlanta's entertainment weekly, Creative Loafing.