Tune in Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests: Joel Schumacher, Yael Hersonski and Kimberly Reed.
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Writer, producer and director Joel Schumacher has created some memorable moments in cinema with films such as St. Elmos Fire, Falling Down and Flatliners. His latest film TWELVE is an adaptation of the Nick McDonell novel Twelve. In 2002, then 17-year-old McDonell wrote a novel that starkly depicted teenage drug use and decadence on the Upper East Side. The story follows a high school dropout-turned-drug dealer. His lucrative life sours when the dealer's cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime.
Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski will be discussing her documentary A Film Unfinished. At the end of World War II, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Depicting everyday life in the Warsaw ghetto, the footage quickly gained traction as an important historical document. The found footage, in four small reels, had been used by archivists and documentary filmmakers over the past several decades to show what life was like in the ghetto. The images - accepted as reality - have now been proven to be a cinematic deception, as the Nazis had staged nearly all the scenes.
Filmmaker Kimberly Reed will be talking about her documentary Prodigal Sons. The film is an intensely personal documentary that follows the filmmaker, a transgender woman, as she returns home to Montana for her high school reunion. Kimberly, previously the school's star quarterback, hopes to reestablish old friendships and to reconcile with her long-estranged adopted brother, Marc. While working through their intense sibling rivalry, the family uncovers stunning revelations (including a connection to Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth), and experiences unforeseeable twists of plot and gender that challenge them in ways no one could imagine.
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