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"On Beauty" Documentary Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A
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- 125
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$20 per person, 25 spots available
Synopsis:
Documentary Filmmaker and Aurora Parent Joanna Rudnick will screen her short documentary ON BEAUTY, winner of the Chicago Film Festival's Short Documentary Audience Award and Sebastopol's Best Short Documentary, exclusively for Aurora parents. The film tells the story of a former fashion photographer who leaves the fashion world behind to challenge the way we see beauty in difference around the world (see longer description below). It's a film about acceptance, tolerance and inclusion. A timely message and one that will resonate with Aurora families. The setting is the beautiful and unique boutique and community space Hawthorne, owned by Aurora Parent Laurie Lion. We will provide wine and hors d'oeuvres. The film's running time is 30 minutes.
“ On Beauty’ is, quite simply, a masterful example of how cinema can serve as a humanizing force in the world. We need films like this. We can’t afford to lose them.”
— RogerEbert.com
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Link to the press kit for images etc:
http://iambeauty.me/wp-content
From Emmy®-nominated IN THE FAMILY filmmaker Joanna Rudnick and Chicago’s Kartemquin Films comes a story about challenging norms and redefining beauty. ON BEAUTY follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the restrictive parameters of the industry’s standard of beauty. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to the shadows to change the way we see and experience beauty.
At the center of ON BEAUTY are two of Rick's photo subjects: Sarah and Jayne. In eighth grade Sarah left public school because she was bullied so harshly for the birthmark on her face and brain. Jayne lives with albinism in Eastern Africa where society is blind to her unique health and safety needs and where witch doctors hunt people with her condition to sell their body parts. We follow Rick as he uses his lens to challenge convention and media’s narrow scope of with the help of two extraordinary women.
Donated By:
Joanna Rudnick
Laurie Lion
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