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Events
Screenings and More
Joel Katz's New Film at Walter Reade - World Premiere -
January 12th!
TWN board member Joel Katz presents his latest documentary, "White: A Memoir in
Color" at the New York Jewish Film Festival this month. In this personal
documentary, Joel explores what it means to be white in America through the
story of his own family across generations. His father's role as a white
professor at Howard University, a historically black college, during the civil
rights era comes to bear on his and his wife's decisions about race and
adoption. Original score by Don Byron. Thursday January 12th at
9 PMNew York Jewish Film Festival Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln
Center
Admission: $13 More info
The TWN Production Workshop Premiered New Works at Anthology this December! including three premieres from the TWN Production Workshop!
Tuesday, December 6th, 6:00 PM Anthology Film
Archives 32 Second Avenue at 2nd Street NYC 10003
F to 2nd Ave, R to 8th Street
Films Screened: Affording Progress: A Community Response to
Gentrification by Nuala Cabral, Jaisal Noor and Thanu Yakupitiyage
Clandestined
by Claro de los Reyes
Walking with FUREE by Akoma Miriam Perez
New York is
Killing Me by Regina Eaton, Dalila-Johari Paul and Jaïra Placide
NEWSREEL Feminist Films from the 1970s - Newly Preserved - Screened at
Walter Reade this past October! A great event that premiered the newly preserved 16mm prints of the Newsreel films Janie's Janie and
Make Out (1970) , along with a panel including former Newsreel makers.
These were screened with another landmark film, Growing Up Female in a
program made possible by the Women's Film Preservation Fund of the New York
Women in Film and Television organization. Janie's Janie is a personal
documentary that follows Jane Giese, a working class woman in Newark, who comes
to realize thatshe has to take control of her own life, after years of physical
and mental abuse. An empowering documentary, Jane's daughters came to the
screening. Make Out features the interior monologue of a young
woman as she "consents" to making out in a car. Though made over 40 years
ago, these films still resonate and the opportunity to watch pristine 16mm was
wonderful. The screening was followed by a panel discussion, moderated by
Marjorie Rosen, with award winning filmmakers Deborah Shaffer, Julia Reichart,
Stephanie Palewski, Marily Mulford, Jim Klein and Peter Barton. The
evening was dedicated to director Geri Ashur, Jane Giese, and Lois Bianchi, who
shepherded the preservation project for NYWIFT.
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