CInema Sage Hill screening of 'My So-Called Enemy'

NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL AND THE STUDIO AT SAGE HILL PRESENT FREE CINEMA SAGE HILL SCREENING OF HIGHLY ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY FILM MY SO-CALLED ENEMY

 Community Cinema Event to Feature Student Assembly Program Peace Starts with Me with Emmy Award-Winning Director Lisa Gossels

The Newport Beach Film Festival and The Studio at Sage Hill will present a free Cinema Sage Hill screening of the documentary film My So-Called Enemy, followed by a Q&A with director Lisa Gossels. In conjunction with the screening, director Lisa Gossels will present a special student assembly program titled Peace Starts with Me at Sage Hill School. Designed to engage the community and inform students, parents and educators about important issues affecting our society, the assembly and screening are free and open to the public. My So-Called Enemy has garnered a CINE Golden Eagle and 5 film festival awards to date, including the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Film at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival.

 Film Synopsis: In July 2002, twenty-two Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls traveled to the United States to participate in a ten-day women's leadership program. My So-Called Enemy is about six of the girls and how the transformative experience of knowing their "enemies" as human beings meets with the realities of their lives at home in the Middle East over the next seven years. Through these coming-of-age narratives, we see how creating relationships across borders is a first step towards resolving conflict. The girls are the experts in My So-Called Enemy. Their voices need to be heard, particularly because they are young women. www.mysocalledenemy.com

 “A powerful exploration of both the pain and growth that real listening brings in a situation of conflict.”

Princeton Packet

 “A provocative, balanced film that offers unexpected hope for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Washington City Paper

The Newport Beach Film Festival and The Studio at Sage Hill began their cultural collaboration in the fall of 2009 with the launch of the Cinema Sage Hill free community film series. Created to foster an appreciation and an awareness of independent films and expose audiences to compelling subjects and perspectives, Cinema Sage Hill showcases diverse and thought provoking independent documentary films from around the world. A sampling of past films include The Cove, These Amazing Shadows, Something Ventured, Food Fight, Climate Refugees, Blue Gold: World Water Wars, Clay Marzo: Just Add Water, Greening the Revolution, The World We Want and Warrior Champions. www.NewportBeachFilmFest.com

Friday, February 10, 2012

11:00am Sage Hill School student assembly program Peace Starts with Me with director Lisa Gossels.                                         

7:00pm Free screening of My So-Called Enemy followed by Q&A with director Lisa Gossels