REEL HISTORY FILM SERIES 2011-2012
Algonquin Arts Theatre, in association with The Garden State Film Festival and the Manasquan High School History Club, presents “REEL HISTORY”:
“REEL HISTORY” was conceptualized by Manasquan High School History Teacher James Fagen, and Garden State Film Festival Founder and Algonquin Arts Theater Director of Community Outreach Diane Raver to enrich the community and enhance the curriculum of students. All screenings will include a Q&A after the film with an appropriate speaker. If you are a student, or just a history buff you won’t want to miss this film series.
All films screen at Algonquin Arts Theater 173 Main Street, Manasquan, NJ and start at 7:30PM. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.algonquinarts.org or at the door.
10/18/11-TOPIC: ETHICS IN SCIENCE – “BURZYNSKI “ 105 min.
SPEAKER: DONNALYN GIEGERICH, Motivational Speaker
Burzynski’ is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest and possibly most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history – while defending his patented innovative cancer treatment discovery ‘Antineoplastons’. Numerous terminal cancer survivors are also presented in the film with full disclosure of medical records and peer-reviewed FDA clinical trial data comparing their survival statistics to ‘traditional treatments’.
11/15/11-TOPIC: LEGACY OF WAR - “ROCKINGHAM THE ROAD TO PEACE” 23 min. and
“A NOTE OF TRIUMPH :THE NORMAN CORWIN STORY ” 40 min.
SPEAKER: TBD
Rockingham The Road to Peace is an historical documentary short narrative that chronicles the last days of the Revolutionary War when General George Washington wrote the famous ‘Farewell Orders to Armies’ at Rockingham, New Jersey in 1783. This documentary spans the last three months that General Washington spent after eight long years at war to bring peace and liberty to our great new nation.
Norman Corwin, radio’s ‘poet laureate’, made an indelible impact on American culture with his broadcast of ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH on V-E Day, May 8th, 1945. This film is an examination of the greatest radio presentation in the history of the medium and how it remains eerily prescient in light of today’s current events. This film won an Academy Award in the Short Documentary category.
1/17/11-TOPIC: ENVIROMENT - “FED UP” 58 min.
SPEAKER: TBD
About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not labeled. The biotechnology industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope for feeding the world and saving the environment. Family farmers are disappearing at an astonishing rate as people continue to go hungry both here and abroad. Toxic agricultural chemicals continue to poison our air, food and water and put farm workers in serious danger. What’s a person to do?
2/21/11-TOPIC: COLD WAR - DR. STRANGELOVE with clips from ”ATOMIC CAFÉ”
SPEAKER: JIM FAGEN, History Teacher, Manasquan High School
Through a series of military and political accidents, a pair of psychotic senior military officers hatch an ingenious, foolproof, and irrevocable plan to unleash a wing of B-52 bombers and their nuclear payloads on strategic targets inside Russia. This cult favorite includes an all star cast including Peter Sellers,.
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, Fort 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.