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In
addition to monthly screenings with directors, producers, writers,
and editors, Celebrating
Women Filmmakers features an Outreach
Program in collaboration with many county organizations
that serve at-risk youth. Through this program, more than 200
teenage girls have met with filmmakers, seen their films, and
discussed
with them the role of women in the moviemaking business. For
more information call (914) 773-7663, ext. 45.
This monthly series is made possible
through a generous grant from the Sally Burns Shenkman Program
Fund.
Heart & Soil Mon. May 19 w/Mara LeGrand & Joan Dye Gussow
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) Sun. June 1 w/Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath
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Mara LeGrand
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Mara LeGrand and author Joan Dye Gussow present
HEART & SOIL Mon. May 19 at 7:15
Mara LeGrand. 2008. 52 min. NR. US.
Heart & Soil takes us into the rich landscape and challenging lives of Southwestern farmers who raise healthful food and make it available through local farmers' markets. A poetic portrait of people whose whole lives are integrated with the natural world, this compelling documentary reveals the growing energy that fuels, says LeGrand, "a resurgence in the collective conscious to not only protect our environment, but to realize our health is best nourished from healthy food, grown with thriving soil, and clean water and air."
Mara LeGrand is an award-winning photojournalist, author of eight original screenplays, poet, former columnist, writer/producer of a weekly public radio broadcast, and owner of a health retreat and health food store.
Joan Dye Gussow is a noted nutritionist, food-policy advocate, and author of several books on the relationship between nutrition and ecology. She has long grown her own organic produce in Piermont, New York.
Tickets: $6 (members), $10 (nonmembers) |
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Ellen Kuras
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Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath present
THE BETRAYAL (Nerakhoon)
Sun. June 1 at 5:30
Ellen Kuras/Thavisouk Phrasavath. 2008. 95 min. NR. US, in English/Lao with subtitles.
Two decades in the making, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) chronicles the epic journey of a young man and his family from Vietnam War–era Laos to the mean streets of New York. The hidden human face of war and the hardships of immigrant life are illuminated in this deeply personal documentary, melding memoir, cinema verité, and historical inquiry.
Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath wrote, directed, and edited The Betrayal (Nerakhoon). Kuras has won the cinematography award at Sundance an unprecedented three times for Swoon, Angela, and Personal Velocity, and has also received two Emmy nominations. Her other film credits include Blow, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Be Kind Rewind. Phrasavath is very active in the Laotian-American community, founding both gang prevention and family crisis–intervention programs. His previous film work includes writing, directing, and editing such films as Summer School, Cuba Libre, and Americanos.
Tickets: $9 (members), $13 (nonmembers) |
Outreach Program for High School
Girls
As a component of "Celebrating
Women Filmmakers," on one Saturday each month the Jacob
Burns Film Center invites young women to screen a film and
discuss it afterwards with the filmmaker or a guest whose
experience specifically relates to the subject of the film.
The goals of the program are: to introduce
the girls to the art and business of filmmaking as a viable
and attainable career and to discuss issues facing teenagers
today, such as self image, violence and abuse, teen pregnancy
and drug abuse, as they are presented in the film they see.
We work with many Westchester organizations
that provide services for at-risk youth, to offer their constituents
an opportunity to take part in this unique program. If you
are interested in participating in an upcoming program, or
would like more information, please call Eileen Farbman at
(914) 773-7663 ext. 45 or email womenfilmmakers@burnsfilmcenter.org.
Past programs include:
Shouting Silent with South
African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole. The film explores
the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the eyes of Xoliswa Sithole,
an adult orphan who lost her mother to HIV/AIDS in 1996.
Risa Morimoto, Executive Director of Asian CineVision,
discussed a selection of shorts representing the Asian
experience from a wide variety of Asian filmmakers
Sister to Sister JBFC's Dr.
Ara Osterweil discussed
this documentary of the lives and films of African
American women feature film directors from the early
part of the century to today.
Fast Food High with director Nisha
Ganatra.
A Healthy Baby Girl with director Judith
Helfand.
African Film Festival a selection of shorts from
the festival, with filmmaker Ekwe
Msangi.
Real Women Have Curves, followed by
a discussion with supermodel and spokesperson Emme.
What I Want My Words To Do To You, a documentary
about Eve Ensler's writing workshop at Bedford Women's
Correctional Facility, followed by a discussion with
co-executive producer Judith
Katz.
Click
Here for the "Movies Directed by Women" website.
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