New York-based filmmakers, Melissa Hacker and Esy Casey, have started a new screening series called Cinesalon, a monthly screening series and social hour showcasing women filmmakers. Held in the elegant brownstone of AAUW's Manhattan salon, the series will provide a venue for rarely seen features, shorts and works-in-progress. The get-togethers will take place on the 4th Thursday of the month, so the first one will be this Thursday, the 28th, next one the 25th of February, next 25th of March, etc., from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at the American Association of University Women, NYC House, 111 East 37th Street. Write [email protected] for more info, or join their Facebook page.
This month's program will screen a narrative short called Si j'étais un arbre (If I Were a Tree) directed by Sandra Beltrao about two ex-lovers who run into one another in the gardens of the Palais Royal, and a documentary feature work-in-progress called My So Called Enemy directed by Lisa Gossels (Children of Chabannes). In July 2002, twenty-two Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls came to the US to participate in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace. Filmed over the course of seven years, the film will be a coming-of-age story about six of the program's participants and how they reconcile their transformative experiences in the program with the realities of life back home.
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