12 adults with developmental disabilities 5 theatre professionals 10 high school drama students 12 weeks until curtain cat fights, crushes, breakdowns... Welcome to Anatevka Tradition is the central theme of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, but the production in Welcome to Anatevka is far from…
Paul Giger, violinist of world renown, is arranging his opus Karma Shadub for performance in the cathedral of St.Gallen; it is the opus he composed on the occasion of his son’s birth 30 years earlier. Ramòn films, searching for the person behind the musician, the father by whom he feels…
In the back alleys of Moscow, forgotten treasures lurk: Utopian buildings, built in the 1920s in the spirit of Russian constructivism. Ruins of another future, reflecting the hopes and aberrations of modernity. Aren’t the buildings calling out to us? The film follows three Muscovites who are…
“83 minutues you will never forget … deeply moving...puts a human face on the deported and their families.” -Examiner.com “A Poignent tale of deportation.” -Arizona Republic “Heartbreak American style” -Chicago Tribune "Real lives with heartbreaking…
Synopsis: Alma Thorpe's bizarre views on sexuality, motherhood, God and mail-order sweepstakes, make her a living breathing shrine to Southern Gothic. In this intimate and darkly humorous film, director Ruth Leitman (Lipstick & Dynamite, Wildwood, NJ.) follows Alma's daughter Margie's…
LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE shines a spotlight on the forgotten first ladies of the ring. Gladys 'Killem' Gillem wrestled women, men, alligators and bears. At 18 Ida May Martinez took to the road to flash the only thing she knew - how to kick, punch, and defend herself. Narrowly escaping a date…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/the-drums-of-winter-p896.aspx by Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling color, 90 min, 1988, digitally remastered 2015 This feature-length documentary explores the traditional dance, music and spiritual world of…
Wildwood, NJ. Directed by Ruth Leitman & Carol Weaks Cassidy This film takes you down the shore with an all-women crew to Wildwood, N.J. - the last great American blue-collar seaside carnival town. Wildwood moves beyond gum-cracking, big hair, and press-on nails to look into the souls of women…
This film was produced on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It provides a useful overview to the work of Roy Lichtenstein, a seminal Pop artist, and gets behind the sometimes-impenetrably-slick surfaces of Lichtenstein's canvases and prints, to show how such…
The Shaker movement in America was founded by Ann Lee, a member of a religious sect near Manchester, England, that prophesized the imminent second appearance of Christ on earth. They were referred to as "Shaking Quakers" due to their ecstatic movements during worship. Ann Lee immigrated…
In 1989, William S. Rubin, then Director Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture, organized its groundbreaking exhibition Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism. Rubin gathered over 400 paintings and sculptures by the artists for the exhibition and charted their…
Employment of people with learning disabilities, in London. This London agency seeks out employment for people with learning disabilities, and several cases are illustrated, which are highly successful, both to employer and employee. The idea is that each person has something to give, and we should…
