THUNDER
IN GUYANA
screenings
and news
SCREENINGS
May
3, 2003 - World Premiere!
See
pictures of the premiere: 1
| 2
Proctor's
Theatre in Schenectady
More
about Guyanese in Schenectady
June
12, 2003 - New York Premiere!
Walter
Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
This screening is sponsored by IFP/New
York and the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of the series, Independents
Night. The series is designed to showcase recently completed American documentary
features. Screenings are followed by Q&A and a reception in the adjoining
gallery. Independents Night is co-sponsored by the Village Voice and is made possible,
in part, by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
General
public may purchase tickets ($9.50) beginning three to four weeks in advance at
the Walter Reade Box office, or on-line at www.filmlinc.com.
June
14, 2003 - 5:15 PM
Jacob
Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York
Click above
for more information and directions.
July
2003 - San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
July
24
-
San
Francisco
July
28
- Palo Alto
July
30
-
Berkeley
These
dates are tentative. Visit the SFJFF website
for more information.
October
25, 2003 at 7:30 p.m.
It opened the First Women's
Film Festival of New Jersey at Caldwell College.
October 26, 2003 at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Thunder
in Guyana opened the Reel
Jews Film Festival.
November
7, 2003 at 6:30 p.m
It
screened at the Margaret
Mead Film Festival
November
16, 2003 at 1:00 p.m.
Thunder
closed the Boston Jewish Film Festival
November 17, 2003 at 6 p.m.
It
screened as part of the series "(Re)Capturing Ourselves:
Labor, Welfare, Colonialism Through the Eyes of Women Filmmakers"
at the CUNY-Graduate Center, co-sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities and others.
December
4, 2003 at 2:30 p.m.
December 6, 2003 at 6:30 p.m.
Thunder
will screen at the Santa Fe Film
Festival.
December
8, 2003 at 8:30 p.m.
The film will screen at Washington
DC Jewish Film Festival
January
9, 2004
UNIFEM
Film Festival Miami, Florida
January 9, 2004 at 8 p.m.
January
12, 2004 at 6 p.m.
Gene
Siskel Theater Center, Chicago, IL
Stranger
Than Fiction: New Documentary Frontiers
Documentaries have never been
hotter, with an explosion of exciting new work erasing the borderlines between
the personal and the political. This survey includes a number of local premieres,
including the Chicago-connected EL MOVIMIENTO and THUNDER IN GUYANA.
February
15, 2004
San
Diego Jewish Film Festival
March
5-6, 2004
Myhelan Film Festival, Long Valley, New
Jersey
March 7, 2004
Pittsburgh
Jewish Film Festival
March
6-7, 2004
Women's Film Festival, Brattleboro, Vermont
March 14, 2004
Maine
Jewish Film Festival
March
18-28, 2004
Cleveland International Film Festival
March
21, 2004 8:30 p.m.
Women's Film Festival, Brattleboro, Vermont
March 23, 2004
Minneapolis Jewish
Film Festival
April
15, 2004
Jewish Community
Center, Rhode Island
April 16-28,
2004
Chicago Latino
Film Festival
April 27, 2004
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Athens, Ohio
April 28, 2004
High School Film Festival at the Jewish Museum,
NY
May
4, 2004
Lenore Marwill Jewish Film Festival Detroit, Michigan
May
9, 2004
Montreal
Jewish Film Festival
May
11, 2004 at 6 p.m.
Pioneering
Jewish Women, Jewish Women's Archives, Boston Public Library
June
14, 2004
St Louis Jewish Film Festival
June
14, 2004
Pittsburgh Jewish Film Festival
July
25, 2004
Martha’s Vineyard Jewish Film Festival
October
10, 2004
Red Bank International Film Festival
Red Bank, New
Jersey
October
14, 2004
Oklahoma
Museum of Natural History
October
17, 2004
Ridgewood, NJ Public Library
October
31, 2004
Houston Jewish Book and Arts Fair
November
3, 2004
Brooklyn Public Library
December
16, 2004
Rialto Theatres - Santa Rosa, CA
February 17, 2005 at 5:30 p.m.
February 26,
2005 at 4 p.m.
Documentary Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art
February
19, 2005
Schenectady, NY Jewish Community Center
February
22, 2005
Thunder
will air nationally on PBS-Independent Lens
April
2, 2005
Yale Women's Film Festival
May
25, 2005
Henry Street Settlement
September 29, 2005
Suffolk University
October 24, 2005
Fordham Law School
November 16, 2005
Dartmouth College
November 17, 2005
Boston College
March 18, 2007
Brandeis University
March 18, 2009
New York City Parks Department - Arts and Culture Series
November 12, 2009
University of Illinois, Chicago Campus
February 4, 2010
Northeastern University
April 15, 2010
Skidmore College
August 8, 2010
Thunder in Guyana will be broadcast AGAIN on PBS nationally! The broadcast is on August 8, 2010 at 10 p.m. on PBS World/Global Voices. Visit www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/thunder-in-guyana or check local listings!
NEWS and REVIEWS
Film
International
(June, 2005)
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the article
The
New York Times (February 22, 2005)
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the article
The
Baton Rouge Advocate (February
22, 2005)
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the article
The
Nation (February
17, 2005)
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the article
CCWH
Newsletter (Summer 2004)
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the article
Re://Collections (Spring
2004)
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the article
Thunder will air nationally on PBS-Independent Lens February
22, 2005
Winner
Best Documentary-Myhelan Indie Film Festival (March
2004)
Hyde
Park Herald (January 7, 2004)
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the article
Educational
Media Reviews Online (December 19, 2003)
Winner of the Boston Jewish Film Festival Best Documentary Award (November,
2003)
Forward (October
24, 2003)
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the article
Winner of the Cine Golden Eagle Award (September,
2003)
The Hollywood Reporter
(June 13, 2003)
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the article
The
Villager (June 11, 2003)
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the article
Schenectady
Daily Gazette (May 2, 2003)
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the article
Albany
Metroland (May 1-7, 2003)
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the article
Albany
Times Union (April 18, 2003)
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the article
CineWomen
(March 2003, Volume 2, #24)
Read
interview with Suzanne Wasserman
Brian
Lehrer Show / WNYC (March 10, 2003)
Listen
to Janet and Suzanne on the radio
The Yip Harburg Political Documentary Film Collection, to be housed at the Donnell Media Center, New York Public Library, will include THUNDER IN GUYANA.