The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry
Bottom Line: Low-budget documentary shines a light on a lesser known hero of the Left and puts him in the context of his times.
By Sura Wood — The Hollywood Reporter
November 27, 2007

"Charles R. Garry, the controversial working-class lawyer who defended '60s protestors and the Black Panthers, is venerated in Hrag Yedalian's admiring documentary, "The People's Advocate: The Life and Times of Charles R. Garry." A bare bones, ragged-around-the-edges enterprise, the film is nonetheless an illuminating portrait of a driven, deeply committed man and the turbulent era he lived in. First-time filmmaker Yedalian, who spent four years on this project, compiles television interviews with Garry, archival news footage of his trials and testimonials and reminiscences from a Who's Who of '60s radicals such as Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and David Hilliard as well as Garry's brothers and assorted friends."

THE STAR-MAKER MACHINERY
Mill Valley Film Festival Offers the Big Picture
By David Lamble — Bay Area Reporter
October 4, 2007

"...a short but intense look at a Bay Area figure from the 60s who revolutionized the way defense attorneys conduct politically-tinged trials...The film gives a strikingly personal account of what a family affair radical politics could be."

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
By Ruthe Stein and Walter Addiego — San Francisco Chronicle
September 30, 2007


HAPPY 30TH MVFF!
By Mal Karman — Pacific Sun
September 28, 2007

"...The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry paints a riveting portrait of a self-made man whose idealism drove him to the top of his game and, ultimately, destroyed him."

STARS WILL BE ON HAND TO CELEBRATE 30TH YEAR OF MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
By Paul Liberatore — Marin Independent Journal
September 11, 2007


MODERN MORALITY TALES PERMEATE 30TH MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
Filmmakers and Their Characters Risk All for Their Beliefs
September 11, 2007

"Hrag Yedalian's The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry (US) is a superb portrait of a criminal defense attorney who revolutionized the American justice system through the nation's most important and highly charged political trials of the '60s."

FADE TO BLACK LION
The People's Advocate: the Life and Times of Charles R. Garry' Remembers the 60s Revolution
By Andy Turpin — The Armenian Weekly
August 18, 2007

"Using a veritable Justice League of post-war leftist and politically radical figures such as Howard Zinn, Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, Kathleen Cleaver and others, Garry's life story — from a poor Armenian kid in Fresno to lead criminal defense lawyer in San Francisco — is expertly told by Yedalian, primarily through Garry's prominent network news coverage of the day."