Film

Budrus

Subtitle: 
An award winning documentary on how non-violence resistance saved a village
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 09/24/2011 - 20:00 to 22:00

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today.

Location: 
Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Cost: 
Pitt Students with ID $4.00, all others $8.00

Secrets and Lies

Subtitle: 
Adoption on Film: Families Lost and Found
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 09/17/2011 - 19:30 to 21:30

Mike Leigh’s spare Secrets and Lies provides a lovely and lively contrast to high dramatic representations of adoption and loss. The film asks: What happens after a successful adopted woman, who is black, contacts her birthmother, who is white (played by Brenda Blethyn)?
Nominated for 5 Oscars, Secrets and Lies won 29 other awards, including the Palme d’Or.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Contact Email: 
mnovy@pitt.edu

To Each His Own

Subtitle: 
Adoption on Film: Families Lost and Found
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 09/17/2011 - 15:00 to 17:00

Olivia de Havilland stars in an Academy-Award winning performance as Jody, a mother managing the complexities of a life with and without her son Griggsy, whom she shares with his adoptive mother and her friend Corinne. A sublime women’s film of the studio era, To Each His Own reveals a sophisticated sense of a birth parent’s loss while demonstrating the sensibilities of its era and genre.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Contact Email: 
mnovy@pitt.edu

Adopted: For the Life of Me

Subtitle: 
Adoption on Film: Families Lost and Found
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 09/17/2011 - 13:00 to 15:00

Documentarist Jean Strauss follows two older men in search of their first families. Shown on PBS stations in 2010, Adopted: For the Life of Me is especially timely given pending Pennsylvania state legislation addressing closed birth records.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Contact Email: 
mnovy@pitt.edu

Wo Ai Ni Mommy

Subtitle: 
Adoption on Film: Families Lost and Found
Presenter: 
Stephanie Wang-Breal
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 09/16/2011 - 19:30 to 21:30

This compelling documentary follows the journey of an eight- year-old girl taken from a foster home in China to live with her new parents on Long Island, from first moments together through their first year and a half as a family. The film won the Silverdocs Medal for Best American Feature of 2010. Director Stephanie Wang-Breal will present and discuss.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Contact Email: 
mnovy@pitt.edu

Diplomat

Date: 
Sun, 04/10/2011 - 19:00

Part of Carnegie Mellon's 2011 International Film Festival, 'Faces of Migration,' CMU presents 'Diplomat'

Location: 
Southside Works Cinema
Cost: 
$7/$4 for Students
Event Web Site: 
http://www.cmu.edu/faces/ticket.html
Contact Person: 
Jolanta Lion
Contact Phone: 
412-445-6292

Dooman River

Date: 
Fri, 04/08/2011 - 19:00

Part of Carnegie Mellon's 2011 'Faces of Migration' International Film Festival, CMU presents 'Dooman River'

Location: 
McConomy Auditorium (Carnegie Mellon University Campus)
Cost: 
Regular Admission: $7/$4 Student
Event Web Site: 
http://www.cmu.edu/faces/ticket.html
Contact Person: 
Jolanta Lion
Contact Phone: 
412-445-6292

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