Written by PLAYer in Ann Tegnell
Niños de la Memoria will be shown at 7pm Sunday October 14, in Washington DC in a screening organized by the Washington Ethical Society, 7750 Sixteenth Street NW.
There will be a post-screening conversation with co-producer Kathryn Smith Pyle, Leonor Arteaga (Due Process of Law Foundation) and Carlos Mauricio (The Stop Impunity Project). Mauricio Burgos of American University will moderate.
Niños will also be screened at 7pm Monday October 15, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at the Majestic Theater and at 7pm Tuesday October 16, at Gettysburg College Joseph Theater. Both screenings will be followed by a discussion with Kathryn Smith Pyle.
Produced by Kathryn Smith Pyle and María Teresa Rodríguez, Niños de la Memoria is directed by María Teresa Rodríguez and edited by Ann Tegnell.
October 20th at 7pm KNEE DEEP will screen at Greene Street Friends School in Germantown, 5511 Greene Street Philadelphia, PA 19144
This screening is part of a program on urban water management and will feature guest speakers along with additional film programming. We’ll get right back to you with specifics on that!
Written by PLAYer in Ann Tegnell
If you haven’t seen Mirror Dance on the big screen recently, head on down to the 2012 Cape May Film Festival.
Mirror Dance will be showing on Saturday, October 20th after the opening reception at 7:00pm
The screening takes place at the fabulous Chalfonte Hotel, 301 Howard Street, Cape May, New Jersey.
Accompanying the film will be co-director Frances McElroy and subject Margarita de Saa-White. Check out the rest of the festival here!
Look at this great photo of Fred Lewis of the Center in the Park Senior Environment Corps!
Nice new article in Grid by Natalie Hope McDonald about the group’s efforts. Fred gave KNEE DEEP a nice mention. Thanks, Fred.
Take a look at the full article here.
Written by PLAYer in Ann Tegnell
We are happy to announce three screenings of Children of Memory / Niños de la Memoria at the San Francisco Latino Film Festival in September. If you are one of our Bay Area colleagues and friends, we hope you get a chance to see it on the big screen before it gets a broadcast date. So nice filling your ears and eyes and sharing the experience with an audience.
The festival announcement is below with the full schedule here.
Children of Memory / Niños de la Memoria
US + El Salvador 2012 64 min
Producers Kathryn Pyle and María Teresa Rodríguez
Director María Teresa Rodríguez
Editor Ann Tegnell
During the Salvadoran civil war of the 1980s, hundreds of children disappeared. Many were survivors of massacres, taken by U.S.-trained soldiers of the Salvadoran Army and permanently separated from their communities and identities. Now, a human rights organization called Pro-Búsqueda is helping to reunite these children with their families. This documentary follows survivors of the war to the present, revealing a heartbreaking search to reclaim former bonds and identities in a country slowly healing itself from the scars of war.
*Shown with short: Each Time I Remember I Forget
Sept 16 1:15PM Opera Plaza
Sept 23 3PM Mission Cultural Center
Sept 28 Eastside Cultural Center (no time is currently listed in the schedule)
Written by PLAYer in Sharon Mullally
Married in Spandex will be featured as part of a Cinema Speakeasy presented by PIFVA, the Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association. 
Plan for a great evening on August 7th, 6:30 at L’Etage! off South Street in Philadelphia. Consulting Producer Sharon Mullally will be there along with one of the filmmakers.
Written by PLAYer in Sharon Mullally
Premiere time! Sharon Mullally has recently completed the edit of director Nadine Patterson’s Tango Macbeth.
If you are in Boston, catch the World Premiere of Tango Macbeth is on Saturday June 16th, 11:30am at the Blackman Auditorium at Northeastern University as part of the Roxbury International Film Festival. Tickets are $10.
Then Tango Macbeth will have its Philadelphia Premiere on Thursday June 21st, 7:30pm in the IMAX Theatre at the Franklin Institute (Mind the red tail hawks!)
WHAT:Philadelphia Premiere, Tango Macbeth
WHEN: Thursday, June 21st, 7:30pm
WHERE: IMAX Theatre at the Franklin Institute, 20th and Ben Franklin Parkway.
COST: $10. Call Franklin Institute Box Office for Tickets: 215-448-1254 or go to the festival website at
MORE INFO: http://philadelphiaindependentfilmfestival.blogspot.com
It’s a play, within a documentary, within a film.
A theater company rehearses Macbeth. A documentary film crew follows them during the rehearsal process. Occasionally the actors become lost in Shakespeare’s world. The drama of the play intertwines with the drama of making the film like two mobius loops (or serpents) wrapped together.
Intense drama, dance and humor – a refreshing take on Shakespeare’s classic text.
Written by PLAYer in Ann Tegnell
If you missed the May 1st advance screening of Niños de la Memoria in Philadelphia, you may have to wait a bit more to see what editor Ann Tegnell and her colleagues have been crafting the past few years.
But, thanks to the screening sponsors PIFVA and Scribe Video Center, you can see excerpts from the subsequent discussion of the film and it’s issues. The panel consists of producers Kaye Pyle and María Rodríguez, film participants Jamie Harvey and Leonor Arteaga, and activist Jennifer Cox. Elisabeth Perez Luna moderated.
PIFVA has prepared and posted the clip here.
Written by PLAYer in Ann Tegnell
International Screendance Festival of the American Dance Festival
July 6-8, 2012
Durham, North Carolina
919.684.6402
In its 17th year, the International Screendance Festival is directed and curated by Emmy nominated filmmaker, Douglas Rosenberg, and explores the ever-evolving relationship between cinema and dance. Audiences have the opportunity to see numerous films over a 3 day period that have been chosen to represent the best of this film genre. Check here for times and locations.
Edited by Ann Tegnell, MIRROR DANCE is produced and directed by Frances McElroy and María Teresa Rodríguez.
Intrigued? Search this website for more information on the film.
The Leeway Foundation, in collaboration with PIFVA (Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association), announces “Change in Motion” a screening of media artists who have been funded by both organizations including: Ann Tegnell, Barbara Attie & Janet Goldwater, Cindy Burstein, Heidi Saman, María Teresa Rodríguez, and tiona.m.. The screening will feature short films and excerpts followed by a moderated discussion facilitated by Elisabeth Perez-Luna with the filmmakers exploring their artistic practice and how funding and technical assistance from both Leeway and PIFVA has had an impact on their work.
extendedPLAY’s Sharon Mullally was also a WOO recipient from Leeway for KNEE DEEP as well as a long-time PIFVA member. We are very grateful for the support of both organizations.
Change in Motion will take place on Thursday June 14 at 7:00pm at The Painted Bride Art Center (230 Vine Street) in Old City. Admission is free and open to the public.
To RSVP please call 215. 545. 4078 or click here.
