"Divan" movie party, NYC, Mar 6
++ DIVAN opens at NYC's Film Forum ... followed by a national theatrical release...
From March 17 - 30, 2004
screenings at: 1:15, 3:00, 4:45, 6:30, 8:15, 10:00
FILM FORUM (209 West Houston; filmforum.com)
More info on Divan: palinkapictures.com or zeitgeistfilms.com
++ PARTY: Saturday, March 6
NO BORDERS: NON-STOP PURIM
Purim, the Jewish Carnivale, is the perfect holiday to kick off the opening of Divan at Film Forum... join us for a festive evening in full topsy turvy glory...
Following a megilla story reading featuring Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross of Storahtelling, Jenny Romaine with Great Small Works, Frank London, Adrienne Cooper, The Syndicate & TreyfGender Posse, Homeland Security (fight anti-immigrant, anti civil-liberties legislation while you party all night) + other discoveries by the Workman's Circle, we will unveil the DIVAN (that is, the couch) itself at the Midnight Hasidic Drag Mitzva Tanz which will emit spontaneous Purim revelry (accompanied by a DJ, of course)!
Performance of Megilla begins 8pm
Divan Mitzva Tanz at midnight
Workman's Circle
45 East 33rd St. (NYC)
$20 or $15 in costume!
info: www.circle.org + tamarg@circle.org
++ FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:
SEDONA FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, March 5
www.sedonafilmfestival.com
DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, March 14
Denver Film Society
www.denverfilm.org
PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, March 14
MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, March 21, 7:00 pm
www.sabesjcc.org
HARTFORD JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, March 21, 1pm
Cinestudios - Trinity College
www.hjff.org
++ LATEST PRESS:
FILMMAKER MAGAZING: www.filmmakermagazine.com (front page, scroll down)
Bari Pearlman's interview with Pearl Gluck on Divan...
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:
featured in "Spring Notes: March"
JEWISH WEEK:
"One of the most promising debut features of the year, doesn't come from the Middle East or Asia or Latin America. Pearl Gluck is strictly local talent, a New Yorker born and bred, and this whimsical tragicomedy traces her family history through the wanderings of the title piece of furniture, a family heirloom that has been to more places than you or I." - George Robinson
For press screening schedule and press kit, contact: Susan Norget -- susan@norget.com
++ SPREAD THE WORD: you can help... please cut and paste the announcement below to invite your friends, co-workers, arch enemies, countrymen, and kin... and contact Nicole Opper for volunteer opportunities to set up classes, organization, or group sales/buy-outs for Film Forum: nicole_opper@yahoo.com
Divan
A film by Pearl Gluck
Exclusive NYC Engagement Starts March 17, 2004
FILM FORUM
209 West Houston St. (West of 6th Avenue)
"Adventurous! Absolutely charming!"
--New York Post
"She's looking for far more than furniture. And she finds it, in her own ingenious way."
--Palm Beach Post
"A witty and playful journeyÖ both deeply committed and slyly ironic, DIVAN offers a glimpse into the richness of Yiddish folklore."
--Variety
"A fresh, touching, surprising, and thoroughly wonderful film. At once witty and profound, Divan documents a series of quests ñ for a special sofa, for remnants of a Jewish life in post-Holocaust Hungary, for a way to reconcile oneís life choices with parental expectationsÖ the longest journey of all turns out to be the one from Brooklyn to Manhattan."
--Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett, NYU
A Zeitgeist Films/Hartley Film Foundation Release
To reclaim an ancestral couch upon which Hasidic rabbis slept, Pearl Gluck travels from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn to her roots in Hungary. Along the way, she wrestles with the faith of her forbearers, their heartbreaking fate and extraordinary resilience, and finally, what it means to claim both oneís tradition and oneís independence.
MORE INFO: www.palinkapictures.com