Extraordinary Music, Extraordinary Life JANIS IAN: BREAKING SILENCE with director Varda Bar Kar

🎧 Inside the Arthouse: Janis Ian’s Legacy in Song & Struggle — A Conversation on Breaking the Silence

Few artists have defined a generation through music quite like Janis Ian. As a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey in the 1960s, Ian burst onto the national scene at age 13 with her bold and controversial hit “Society’s Child,” addressing interracial love during a time of social upheaval. Praised by Leonard Bernstein and later beloved for the Grammy-winning anthem “At Seventeen,” Ian's music has chronicled personal and political truths for over five decades.

Now, her extraordinary life and fearless artistry are the subject of a powerful new documentary, Janis Ian: Breaking the Silence — directed by Varda Bar-Kar and distributed by Greenwich Entertainment.

In this episode of Inside the Arthouse, we sit down with Bar-Kar to discuss the making of the film, which features candid interviews with Janis Ian and collaborators including Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Lily Tomlin, and Jean Smart. The film uses Ian’s deeply personal songwriting to trace the story of an artist who helped shape the voice of American women and the protest music movement.

🎬 JANIS IAN: BREAKING THE SILENCE opens in select theaters this week.

🎙️ Don’t miss this conversation about music, activism, resilience—and the soundtrack of a generation.

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