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Photographer Courtney Bent works with cerebral palsy adults at a Watertown community center. She manages to rig up cameras for the people to use to express themselves. Bent thinks the work is so good it could be gallery ready, but will any gallery be up for showing such works?
Shooting Beauty will be at 12 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5 at the Museum of Fine Arts. 62 minutes. Close captioned.
A mysteries Alan Rickman travels the backroads of Canada where he meets a free-spirited hitchhiker looking to visit her mother. A fatal car accident results in Rickman (of Harry Potter movie fame) visiting the mother (Signourney Weaver), extending his condolences and lending a helping hand. But this is not your typical mom because Weaver is autistic. Directed by Marc Evans, 112 minutes.
Snow Cake screens at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Alfond Auditorium.
Four Iraqi War veterans lose their limbs in the battle, but don’t give up the fight. In this documentary, the vets strive to make the U.S. Paralympic team for the Beijing Games. Will they make the squad, and if they do, are they going to bring home the gold? 90 minutes, close captioned.
Warrior Champions screens at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 7 at West Newton Cinema.
Anita, with a great debut by Alejandra Manzo, is about a young Jewish teen with Down syndrome in Buenos Aires. She is cared for by her mother (Oscar nominee Norma Aleandro) until “mommy” is missing in a bomb blast at the Jewish community center. The youth wanders the streets, looking for her mother, coming across an array of citizens, who are affected by her. Directed by Marcos Carnevale, 104 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Anita is the Closing Night film, screening at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 8 at the West Newton Cinema.
The Oscars are coming, and you can party with The Boston Jewish Film Festival that very night in the hottest living room in town.
Come cheer for your favorite nominees, while you eat, drink and hang at The Living Room, 101 Atlantic Ave., Boston starting at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26.
Tickets are $50 per person, which includes one drink, hors d’ouevres, games, and a lot of fun.
The event is sponsored by The Festival.
The Boston Jewish Film Festival will receive a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, it was announced today. This marked the first time that The Festival received a grant from the organization.
“We are very excited to receive the support from the NEA,” said Jaymie Saks, Managing Director of The Boston Jewish Film Festival. “It’s gratifying to be recognized nationally for our efforts in bringing Jewish film and culture to the Greater Boston community.”
“The grant will make a difference and enable us to achieve a greater impact in the community,” Saks said. “We will use the money for increased outreach, a goal that is very important to us.” The funds are to be used in 2012.
The Festival, which just concluded its 23rd Festival earlier this week, is looking to extend its audience to various religious, cultural and social organizations and groups in the Greater Boston area. A total of 1,686 applications were submitted for funding. The grant was one of 863 from the NEA to organizations and individual writers around the U.S. with awards totaling more than $22.5 million. The Festival’s grant came through the NEA Art Works program.
The Festival was one of only three Jewish film festivals in the U.S. to receive the honor and one of two organizations in New England to receive funding in the Media Arts category.
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman said the projects “demonstrate the imaginative and innovative capacities of artists and arts organizations to enhance the quality of life in their communities.”
