International House Philadelphia: Program Guide Fall 2013 | Page 12

No Más Bebés Por Vida Tuesday, October 8 at 7pm SCRIBE PRODUCERS’ FORUM An Evening with Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña No Más Bebés Por Vida (a work-in-progress)
dir. Renee Tajima-Peña, US, 2013, digital, 76 min.

This is Not a Film Wednesday, October 9 at 7pm ARCHIVE FEVER! 5.0 This is Not a Film
dir. Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran, 2011, 35mm, Persian with English subtitles, 75 min.

Director Renee Tajima-Peña in person Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Please join award-winning documentarian Renee Tajima-Peña (Who Killed Vincent Chin, Calavera Highway) as she talks about her films.  Her work-in-progress No Más Bebés Por Vida uncovers the contested history of sterilizations of Mexican American women during the 1960s and ‘70s, and how a group of mothers, young lawyers and activists, and a whistle-blowing doctor stood up in the name of justice. Award-winning film director and producer Renee Tajima-Peña’s works address Asian American and immigrant/diaspora themes. Her films have screened at the Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto film festivals. She is a Professor of Asian American Studies and the Alumni and Friends of Japanese American Ancestry Endowed Chair at UCLA, where she directs the Center for EthnoCommunications.
Free admission Penn Students, Staff + Faculty with ID; $5 Scribe + IHP members; $7 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission.
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This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, The Circle) during house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence—six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking for being convicted of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic”—Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking. “Jafar Panahi, forbidden by the Iranian authorities from practicing as a filmmaker, responded with this brave and witty video diary, an essay on the struggle between political tyranny and the creative imagination.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times