Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre
639 Main Street (across from Shea’s Theater), Buffalo, NY 14203

MARCH 6:  BODY COUNTS Night of Shorts:  WNY women make movies on the theme of the body 

AMU (USA/INDIA, 2005, 96 min, Feature, Directed by Shonali Bose)--rescheduled from February 21, 2008

Ticket prices: $8.50 general, $5 students & seniors

Free parking: M&T bank lot on Washington Street behind theatre

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12th Annual International Women's Film Festival

Program Details 

February 7, 2008 

CLOSE TO HOME (ISRAEL, 2005, 90 min. Feature, Color, In Hebrew with English subtitles, Directed by Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hagar)

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  "Vital and rewarding... combines the emotional impact of great drama with the precision, detail and context of great journalism." --Reel.com

Smadar and Mirit are two young women with conflicting personalities brought together by compulsory military service. While Mirit is quiet and Smadar brash, both are forced to reconcile the typical carefree feelings of youth with the stark reality of their situation. Given the task of patrolling Jerusalem and stopping random Palestinians to ask for identification and information, Smadar and Mirit's partnership as well as their youthful innocence are put to the test in this award-winning and thoughtful film based on the filmmakers' own experiences.

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12th Annual International Women's Film Festival

Program Details

January 31, 2008

MADE OVER IN AMERICA (USA, 2007, 65 min., Documentary Feature, Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein & Geoffrey Alan Rhodes)

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In the age of surgically enhanced beauty and reality television, how do we perceive body image? MADE OVER IN AMERICA combines the style of reality television with experimental film to weave together the voices of producers and consumers, surgeons and their patients, clinical psychologists, media theorists, and youth who are coming of age in a culture where bodies seem to be customizable. Together they form a picture of how the desire for a better self operates within consumer culture and how this desire is fed by media, the makeover industry and culture at large.

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The Gender Institute (Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender) announces its biannual competition for course development grants. The Institute is offering grants to tenure-line faculty of up to $3,000 to develop courses that will add to and strengthen the curriculum on women and/or gender across the disciplines at UB.  We will consider proposals for courses taught at any level of undergraduate or graduate education. 

Proposals might include:

1) new individually-taught courses;

2) new team-taught courses; or

3) the significant revision of an existing course for the purpose of integrating gender issues into the curriculum.