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CineWomen On Screen: A NYWIFT Series
This screening series celebrates the work of emerging female filmmakers from all over the world. Films that are included in the series must be directed, co-directed, produced, written, edited or shot by women. Whenever possible, the filmmakers are present for discussion and socializing after their works are presented. There will be a Q&A following the screening, and an after-party to follow, with Cash Bar and complimentary food @:
Dempsey's Pub, 61 2nd Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets.
This month, CineWomen on Screen: A NYWIFT Series salutes Asian Pacific Heritage Month with a selection of three short films that take a sharp look at cultural identity.
***NYWIFT is pleased to announce Out of Infamy, also screening at the Tribeca Film
Festival, has been added to this evening's lineup.****
Underpass
Director: Rain Breaw
15 minutes
A family that survived the Cambodian Khmer Rouge has rebuilt their lives, establishing themselves in San Diego. The son, Sann, tormented by memories of the killing fields, copes with his anger by painting violent graffiti on a city underpass. When his mother reaches out to an illegal immigrant from Central America, Sann must confront his fears without destroying his family.
Rain Breaw is an independent film director/producer currently working with Laura Ziskin Productions on the Stand Up 2 Cancer initiative. She is also working on PSAs and music videos, in addition to preparing her first feature. A graduate of the USC MFA Production Program, Rain has produced the feature Mr. Sadman and numerous shorts.
Out of Infamy
Written, produced, and directed by Nancy Kapitanoff and Sharon Yamato
Narrated by Sandra Oh.
17 minutes
Out of Infamy is a portrait of the civil rights activist, Michi Nishiura Weglyn, whose
dynamic personality evolved - via incarceration during World War II in
the Gila River, Arizona camp - from California-born farm girl to New York
City sophisticate to the Rosa Parks of Japanese Americans.
About the Directors:
Sharon Yamato is a freelance writer and author of Moving Walls: Preserving the Barracks of America's Concentration Camps and Jive Bomber: A Sentimental Journey. Nancy Kapitanoff wrote, produced, and directed the short documentary The Comet Model News and is editor of the Web sites www.cometmodelnews.com and www.golfloops.com. />
Michi Nishiura Weglyn (1926-1999) gave up a successful career as costume designer for the popular Perry Como Show to write a book that was to set the record straight about the forced incarceration of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during World War II.
Weglyn’s interest in the subject was personal: she was a victim of the war as a teenager held in a camp and later married to a German Jew who had narrowly escaped Hitler’s Holocaust.
Her research was meticulous, her tenacity unswerving, and her passion legendary.
Monkey Dance
Director: Julie Mallozzi
65 minutes
Three Cambodian-American teenagers come of age in a world shadowed by their parents' nightmares of the Khmer Rouge. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism and new romance pull harder. Gradually coming to appreciate their family's sacrifices, the teens find a balance between their parents' dreams and their own.
Julie Mallozzi's films explore the fluidity of cultural identity and historical memory. Her subjects are often people who, displaced from one country to another, manage to succeed in their new circumstances. She is interested in the ways culture relates to contemporary problems.
Produced by Alison McMahan and Ylana of the CineWomen Screening Committee
Aug 12, 2010 
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