Cinema on the Edge 7:30 p.m., Park Hall Auditorium
21st annual Women Direct festival    REEL 2

Monday-Wednesday, March 18-20
Jackie Soohen, artist in residence

Big Noise Films Collective and Big Noise Tactical Media Presented in conjunction with the women's studies capstone course, Feminisms in Action.

SCREENINGS
Monday, March 18
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
Exploring September 11 and the war on terrorism: excerpts from 911 (2001); Democracy Now in Exile: War and Peace Report (2002);

This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000)

Tuesday, March 19
Black and Gold (1999)

Wednesday, March 20
Zapatista (1998)
Moderated by Nathaniel Cordova, Department of Speech Communication.

MASTER CLASSES*
Tuesday, March 19, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 220 Park
"Tactical Media: Feminist Media Activism for 21st-Century Wars"
Wednesday, March 20, 1:00-4:00 p.m., 220 Park
"Analog and Digital: Media across Difference(s)"

Wednesday-Thursday, March 27-28
Stephanie Black, visiting filmmaker
Life and DebtSCREENING
Wednesday, March 27
Life and Debt (2001)
An award-winning film about Jamaica, sweatshops, and the global economy

MASTER CLASS*
Thursday, March 28, 9:25-11:30 a.m., 220 Park
"Filming across Racial and National Differences: Practices, Politics, and Ethics"

Cosponsored by Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity; Race and Its Meanings series; and Office of Multicultural Affairs.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Monday-Tuesday, April 1-2
MicrocinemaIndependent Exposure
Joel Bachar, curator and cofounder

SCREENINGS
Monday, April 1--- Traveling Microcinema
This project has programmed over 700 short works for audiences in 32 countries and Antarctica.

Tuesday, April 2
Special focus on subcultural film

MASTER CLASS*
Tuesday, April 2, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 220 Park
"Behind the Scenes of the Microcinema Movement"

Tuesday, April 16
Georgetown Independent Film Festival
Jeannette Catsoulis, director of programming; Tad Doyle, assistant director of programming
Featuring queer cinema
Cosponsored by Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 23-24
Spirituality and the Cinema Series
Angel Shaw, acting executive director, Asian American International Film Festival

SCREENINGS
Tuesday, April 23
Angel Shaw retrospective featuring Nailed (1992)

Asian-American International Film FestivalWednesday, April 24-Asian American International Film Festival

MASTER CLASS*
Tuesday, April 23, 2:30-5:15 p.m., 220 Park
"Behind the Scenes at the Asian American Film Festival"
Cosponsored by Office of Multicultural Affairs and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Muller Chapel.

Monday, April 29
Jewish Life and the Arts Series

Sunshine (dir. Istvan Szabo,1999, in English) A Budapest family faces the anti-Semitism of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War II, and Communism. With visiting film studies scholar Catherine Portuges, University of Massachusetts.

Tuesday, April 30
Trembling before G-dJewish Life and the Arts Series
Trembling before G-d

(dir. Sandi Simcha DuBowski, 2001)

Award-winning documentary of the lives and hidden world of gay Orthodox Jews. Panel to follow: TBA. Cosponsored by Hillel.

Curatorial team: Patricia R. Zimmermann, Gina Marchetti, Barbara Adams, Simon Tarr, David Gatten
Curatorial assistance: Carla Golden, Jerome Ng Ithaca
College sponsors: Office of Multicultural Affairs; Office of the Provost; Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity; Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services; Jewish studies program; Muller Chapel 25th Anniversary Committee; women's studies program; Hillel; BiGAYLA, Department of Cinema and Photography; James B. Pendleton Endowment of the Roy H. Park School of Communications Additional support from Central New York Programmers Group, in conjunction with the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Experimental Television Center

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the Office of Affirmative Action at 607-274-3909 (voice), 607-274-1767 (TDD), or bleblanc@ithaca.edu as much in advance of the event as possible.

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A. Ozolins, Ithaca College Office of Publications, 14. Mar. 2002