Ruby Rich, editor of Film Quarterly, presents two new documentaries, premiering in Philadelphia for the first time:

Ovarian Psycos (USA, 2016, 72 min) directed by Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-LaValle 

Fishermen Without a Sea  (USA, 2016, 20 min) directed by Lucas Bonetti

Directed by recent graduates of the UC Santa Cruz Social Documentation program, where Ruby Rich is a professor of film and digital media, the aesthetics of these films develop from their intention to explore critical community issues.  These are exciting films engaged with ideas as well as communities, and crafted to deliver perspectives and stories that are equally legible to their subjects and their audiences.

The “Ovas” are a group of young Latina women in East Los Angeles who find power and agency by banding together into a bicycle squad that fights for justice, visibility, and an end to domestic violence, all with passion and high spirits. Bonetti’s fishermen lament the state of Rio’s Guanabara Bay, made infamous by concerns over a polluted Olympics, but also navigate the audience through the disappearing beauty of the place they call home. Both documentaries are made with a great eye, sensitivity to place, and a determination to give voice to people outside the mainstream whose lives and struggles are more than worthy of attention.

A Q&A with Ruby Rich will follow the screening. 

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Note: If you participate in B. Ruby Rich’s Master Class on October 26th, the combined cost of the screenings on October 25th and the Master Class on the 26th is $25, $20 Students/Seniors, $15 Scribe members.

ABOUT

B. Ruby Rich is the editor of Film Quarterly, published by UC Press and the oldest continuing film journal in the U.S. She is also a professor in the Dept. of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches in the Social Documentation graduate program. Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut and Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement.