Big news for Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy! The film is currently on its way to Korea for the Disabled Persons’ Human Rights Film Festival in Jeju! Also, Alice Elliott has just been awarded a grant from the Fledgling Fund to use Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy to develop and recruit leadership within the intellectual disability community.
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The FilmForum at Montclair State University in New Jersey will present a program that focuses in part on the origins of New Day. A New Day classic, Growing Up Female will be shown to a class of film students as well as the general public. If you are in the area, we’d love to have you there!
Alice Elliott and Diana Braun are having a fantastic time in Uzbekistan! They have been screening their film, Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy to many different audiences are getting a very positive response. Follow along with their trip at www.uzbekadventure.wordpress.com.
This weekend marks the fourth annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. A special program at 2:00 p.m. Saturday celebrates the importance of social activist documentary films over the past four decades. Award-winning filmmaker Jim Klein will screen his ground-breaking 1976 film “Union Maids,” followed by clips from other important documentaries over the past 40 years and will lead a discussion on the role and the impact of social issue documentaries.
Tickets may be purchased at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street in Sebastopol, or call 829-4797.
http://www.sebastopolfilmfestival.org/
New Day at Sebastopol Film Festival
Saturday, March 19, 2:00PM
Union Maids
by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu
Discussion with Klein
USA | 1976 | 50 min
Saturday, March 19, 4:30PM
Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)
by Stephanie Wang-Breal
USA | 2009 | 76 min
Saturday, March 19, 7:00PM
The Most Distant Placesby Michael SeelyDiscussion with SeelyEcuador and USA
2010 | 32 min
Sin País (Without Country)
by Theo Rigby
Guatemala and USA
2010 | 19 min
Saturday, March 19, 7:00PM
I’m Just Anneke
by Jonathan Skurnik
Canada and USA
2010 | 11 min
Out In The Silence
Buy tickets to Out In The Silence to see Anneke.
For those on the west coast, we’ll be at the 4th annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival March 18-20. New Day’s 40th will be honored with a screening of Union Maids, the 1976 Academy Award nominee, and clips from a number of other important New Day films spanning the decades. Director and one of our founders, Jim Klein, will be attending. Additionally, four of our latest New Day films will be screened during the festival.
New Day at Sebastopol Film Festival
Saturday, March 19, 2:00PM
Union Maids
by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu
Discussion with Klein
USA | 1976 | 50 min
Saturday, March 19, 4:30PM
Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)
by Stephanie Wang-Breal
USA | 2009 | 76 min
Saturday, March 19, 7:00PM
The Most Distant Places
by Michael Seely
Discussion with Seely
Ecuador and USA
2010 | 32 min
Sin País (Without Country)
by Theo Rigby
Guatemala and USA
2010 | 19 min
Saturday, March 19, 7:00PM
I’m Just Anneke
by Jonathan Skurnik
Canada and USA
2010 | 11 min
Out In The Silence
Buy tickets to Out In The Silence to see Anneke.
To kick off our 40th Anniversary celebration we are honored to have New Day Films featured at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as part of the 10th Annual Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media (February 16-28). New Day Films start screening on Friday February 25th and continue all day on February 26th. The original New Day founders and other director-members will be in attendance to discuss their critically acclaimed films after each screening.
MoMA 2011 Documentary Fortnight Screening Schedule
Friday, February 25, 4:00 p.m
Friday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 26, 1:30 p.m. “The Founders + One”
Saturday, February 26, 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Alice Elliott’s film, Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy will be screened on March 10th at MIT as a collaborative event between the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Student Disabilities Services program. The film will screen again in late March in New York City when one of the film’s subjects, Diana Braun, stops by after her trip to Uzbekistan!
THE LORD IS NOT ON TRIAL HERE TODAY, long-time member Jay Rosenstein’s newest film about the separation of church and state in public schools, has recently won several awards. The film won two Emmy Awards (out of three nominations), for Best Historical Documentary and Best Writing, both in the Mid-America region. It has also just been named as a winner of a CINE Golden Eagle in the History category of the Professional Telecast Non-Fiction Division. It is Jay’s third CINE Golden Eagle, the others awarded to his other New Day Films, IN WHOSE HONOR?, and THE AMASONG CHORUS SINGING OUT.
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