Reel Docs: “Moving Stories” [] Teatro Santa Ana at La Biblioteca
Event Category: La Biblioteca and Films
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MOVING STORIES
Tuesday and Wednesday,
February 25 and 26 at 2PM84 minutes
Meet Co-Filmmaker/ Producer Cornelia Ravenal
and Editor/Producer Mikael Södersten
ABOUT THE FILM:
MOVING STORIES is about six dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance Company who travel the world, working with youth who’ve experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees. The film follows them to India, where they work with girls rescued from sex trafficking and gender violence; to Romania, with Roma (gypsy) kids from one of Europe’s worst slums; to South Korea, with young North Koreans who risked their lives to escape; and to Iraq, where they work with a gifted young Muslim dancer, fighting to survive.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:
Cornelia Ravenal has won accolades as a writer and producer of theater and film. She was a producer of the NY Times Critics Pick NIRBHAYA off-Broadway and has won five Best Awards at 25+ film festivals. As founder of WIP (Women Independent Producers), she’s an activist for women in the industry. Previously, she worked as a journalist in the U.S. and India.Mikael Södersten has worked on over 60 narratives and documetnaries in the U.S. and his native Sweden. As Scandinavia’s leading script doctor, he has developed winners at Sundance and Tribeca, including LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and the Oscar-nominated TINKER TAILOR SOLIDER SPY. As a filmmaker, he produced and directed several award-winning shorts and two films broadcast on Swedish TV.
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