Monday 31st March 08 7:15pm Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JG Web Booking: www.picturehouses.co.uk Tickets £ 8.00 / £ 7.00 Conc. In association with In Celebration of Our Sisters .

RUN TIME: 80, YEAR 2006
STARRING: Bertye Lou Wood, Cleo Hayes, Marion Coles, Fay Ray
DIRECTOR: Heather Lyn MacDonald
PRODUCER(S): Heather Lyn MacDonald
Prod Co: Toots! Crackin!.

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Tuesday 1st April 08 7:15pm Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JG Web Booking: www.picturehouses.co.uk Tickets £ 8.00 / £ 7.00 Conc.

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Carol Straker,
Carol Is Festival director of the annual Constellation Change Screen Dance Festival in London. The Festival has received over 1,500 film entries since 2001 and UK premiered over a dozen theatrically released films including Rent (Sony Pictures) , Ballet Russes (Revolver Entertainment) and Honey (Universal Pictures).

As a well known dancer and choreographer, Carol trained at Le Gat School of Russian Ballet then went on to Urdang Academy. She continued her education with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York She also toured with the Alvin Ailey dance company. Carol was featured in the BBC documentary "Breaking The Mold", the Award winning documentary "Constellation Change." and was chosen as one of the leading dancers to appear in the 25th anniversary edition of the legendary Pirelli Calendar, which can be viewed in the Pirelli Room at the Tate Gallery. Carol has three times been short listed for Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Woman of the Year award.

.Watch BBC feature on Last Years film Festival 07

 

 

Bat-Sheva Guez - Is a director, dancer, and editor with an eye for experimental storytelling. Her films have been screened in festivals around the country In April she will UK Premiere two short dance films "Morning" (2nd April) and "3F" (4th April) at this years Constellation Change Film Festival.

Her recent work includes a television pilot entitled "Making It" which was screened at the New York Television Festival last fall and an experimental film entitled "The Winter Quilt" which received the "AUFFicial Selection" award at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival. A graduate from the Vassar College film department, Bat-Sheva has also studied film at the University of Technology in Sydney and Emerson College in Boston. She currently studies dance at Dance New Amsterdam in New York.

 

 

Marcy Garriott is an independent documentary filmmaker (producer/director) based in Austin, Texas.  Her first feature length documentary film was SPLIT DECISION, which screened at over 15 festivals worldwide, won two festival awards, was broadcast on public television, and is currently distributed on DVD by First Run Features.
The film was also selected for a new PBS series that aired last fall (“Voces”). SPLIT DECISION tells the story of a young and talented boxer who is deported to Mexico for a crime committed as a teen, where he must struggle to pursue his passion and re-unite with his family.

 

 

 

Director - Gwendolen Cates

Gwendolen Cates, an award-winning photographer and author, made her filmmaking debut with WATER FLOWING TOGETHER. The film has received three awards to date. Her book Indian Country (Grove Press, 2001) was reviewed as one of the top ten illustrated books of the year by USA Today, and received other critical accolades including being featured on Oprah. Over the course of Cates’s 20-year career her photographs have been published as covers and features in major publications such as Parade, Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Time and People. She has photographed innumerable celebrities and public figures, including George Clooney, Oprah, Sheryl Crow, Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Robin Williams, Bill Murray and Colin Powell. Her next film is Mourning in the Garden of Eden, about the cultural destruction of Iraq during this war. A native New Yorker who attended the University of Chicago, she resides in Manhattan.