Special Screening of Prodigal Sons by Kimberly Reed

Event Date

Saturday, February 27 2010 : 1:00pm – 9:30pm

Location

Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street
New York, NY 10003

(212) 924-3363

Description

Saturday, February 27, 2010
Special Screening of Prodigal Sons by Kimberly Reed
Show Times 1:00p, 2:50p, 5:00p, 7:20p, 9:35p

Join us for the NYC Premiere of Prodigal Sons on Saturday, February 27, 2010.

The Center will be hosting a showing of Prodigal Sons at Cinema Village Theaters.The film will play Friday and Saturday at 1:00 PM, 2:50 PM, 5:00 PM, 7:20 PM, & 9:35PM.For show times visit Cinema Village Theatres. Director Kimberly Reed and other special guests will be in attendance at the 2:50 PM, 5:00PM, & 7:20 PM screenings on Friday, February 26, 2010.

Prodigal Sons
Debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into an unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Get a sneak preview of the multiple award-winning documentary "Prodigal Sons before it opens in New York City on February 26, 2010.The film, which has a surprise connection to Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, tells the true story of a transgender woman (Reed herself), her gay brother, and their adopted brother. Your chance to see key excerpts before the film opens in New York City on the February 26th.

Director, Producer Kimberly Reed
After studying cinema at UC Berkeley (B.A.) and San Francisco State University (M.A.), Kimberly Reed was looking forward to a promising career as a filmmaker. She was a young, award-winning filmmaker (Views of My Father Weeping), had worked as a commercial editor, had traveled the world directing and producing travel documentaries, and had become an early expert in the nascent field of digital filmmaking and postproduction. But then she transitioned genders and did what transsexuals are encouraged to do: She disappeared. Sequestering herself in the world of publishing, she applied her filmmaking knowledge to her position as editor-in-chief of DV magazine, and established her reputation as a frequent speaker and oft-quoted digital filmmaking expert in publications like the New York Times and USA Today. Prodigal Sons is her first feature-length documentary film, and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Kimberly Reed is already recognized as the first transgender feature filmmaker. She was selected for the Yaddo Artists’ Community, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop, and Al Gore’s Current TV Symposium on the Future of Non-Fiction Film. Her work has been featured for four consecutive years at IFP’s Independent Film Week, and she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

For more information about the film visit prodigalsonsfilms.com.