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Dreamcatcher {Opening Night Film, NY Premiere}

Opening Film & NY Premiere

  • Director: Kim Longinotto
  • Writer: Kim Longinotto
  • Type: Documentaries
  • Year: 2015
  • Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Length: 98 minutes

Dreamcatcher is a portrait of Brenda Myers-Powell, a former Chicago prostitute, who helps women and teenage girls break the cycle of sexual abuse and exploitation. The film lays bare the hidden violence that devastates the lives of young women, their families and the communities where they live. It is Brenda’s compassion and unflinching intervention that turns these desperate lives around.

Date: Thursday, February 5, 7:00PM
Location: Diana Center Event Oval, LL100

Filmmaker Bio:
Kim Longinotto is a British documentary filmmaker, well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto studied camera and directing at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England, where she now tutors occasionally. Longinotto is an observational filmmaker. Observational cinema, also known as direct cinema, free cinema or cinema verite, usually excludes certain documentary techniques such as advanced planning, scripting, staging, narration, lighting, reenactment and interviewing. Longinotto’s unobtrusiveness, which is an important part of observational documentary, gives the women on camera a certain voice and presence that may not have emerged with another documentary genre.

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