Ridgewood Library’s 11th Annual Reel Voices Film Festival
Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 pm
(free preview screeing)
Fridays at 7:30 pm:
October 25;
November 1, 15 & 22
Ridgewood Public Library
125 N. Maple Avenue,
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
(201) 670-5600, ext. 114
JoDay Library Cafe opens at 6:45 pm
on Festival Nights
Festival at a Glance – all films begin at 7:30 pm
Wed., Oct. 23 Stories We Tell
Fri., Oct. 25 The Invisible War
Fri., Nov. 1 The Central Park Five
Fri., Nov. 15 Blood Brother
Fri., Nov. 22 Big Men
Stories We Tell Wednesday, October 23 at 7:30 PM
Free preview event;
no speaker
Film’s Website
(2012/US; 108 mins; PG-13 for adult material) Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley tells the moving portrait of her family–her many siblings, actor/writer father, and actress/mother–and a legacy of secrets and lies. As with many families, there are a multitude of stories that have been told through the years. Polley, the youngest child, mines this oral tradition in this groundbreaking film, seamlessly blending past and present, the real and the imagined.
Polley’s characteristically unflinching yet compassionate gaze delivers an exceptional level of depth and emotion. As Polley says, “If I have learned anything from making this film, it is that we can’t all be right and we can’t all be wrong. So we must be unintentionally distorting things to varying degrees in order to feed our own version of what we need the past and history to be, and in our way, we must all be telling the truth as well.” Pictured above: Director Sarah Polley
