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   Sunday, 4-10 12:00 pm
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   Friday, 4-15 2:00 pm

Competition Documentary Features

Chekhov for Children

Memories of 5th and 6th grade don’t often revolve around being in a full-length production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a classic work about grappling with the regrets and vanished hopes of middle age. At New York’s P.S. 75 in 1979, ambitious and sometimes pretentious writer-in-residence Philip Lopate engaged students in an intensive and unique immersion into an arts experience only the most seasoned professionals typically dare to attempt. Over the course of 30 years, the experience continues to have a firm hold on the minds of its youthful participants, now in their 40s, including filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer, who was a member of the cast herself. Through a nostalgic mix of grainy super-8 footage and modern-day reminiscences, it is clear the distance between the longings of 19th Century Russians and 20th Century children is not as absurdly far as one might imagine. In many ways reminiscent of Michael Apted’s remarkable 7-Up series, CHEKHOV FOR CHILDREN captures and reflects on a unique educational experiment and is a fascinating and heartfelt time capsule.

Preceded by

Kodachrome 2010

DIRECTED BY XANDER ROBIN
USA, 2010, 9.5 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE

Seventy-five years after Kodachrome’s debut rocked the photographic world, only one lab continues to process the film – and they’re about to run out of the necessary chemicals.