Calendar of Events

4/17/11-TOPIC WOMEN’S RIGHTS : “ AFGHAN GIRLS CAN KICK “ 50 min

SPEAKER: SHAMALIA KOHESTANI-Afghan Soccer Team Captain

“Afghan Girls Can Kick” is an intimate fly-on-the-wall documentary portrait of teenage girls breaking the stereotypes set for them by intensely conservative Afghan society, in some cases escaping grinding poverty, gaining self-esteem and confidence as players in Afghanistan’s first ever women’s national soccer team.

5/15/11 – TOPIC 20’s CULTURE – “THE LOST GARDEN: THE LIFE AND CINEMA OF ALICE GUY” 52 min

SPEAKER: Tom Meyer -FT. LEE FILM COMMISSION

Alice Guy Blache was a filmmaker before the word even existed. The Lost Garden looks at the life and times of a woman who, with two  words, changed the art of screen acting forever. “Be natural”, she 

used to tell her actors. Television interviews from the sixties reveal  Alice Guy to be witty, articulate and elegant. Her films are cleverly  edited to illustrate the events occurring in her personal life. The 

Lost Garden eulogizes a woman whom history tried hard to forget.