Film Appreciation
Karen Davis has been a moderator/ lecturer at The Cinema Club, a national sneak preview club, for the past five years. Concurrently, she has also been artistic director of the Palm Beach Israeli Film Series for eight years. Her film background includes 20 years as director of the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, which she took from a four-film event over a weekend to a 36-film festival spread over two weeks in three theatres. Additionally, she helped launch and was the artistic director of the 2011 Palm Beach Women’s International Film Festival. A former adjunct instructor at FAU’s Department of Communications in Boca Raton, she is also a freelance journalist. She has done film reviews for the Jewish Women’s Archives and has just been assigned to cover Israeli cinema for IONCINEMA.com, an online magazine.
Through a Woman’s Lens
"Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg"
For all the talk about gender parity in Hollywood, a 2017 study showed that, while women account for 52% of all moviegoers, only about 8% of film directors are women. “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” (Aviva Kempner, dir. 2009) tells the story of Molly Berg, an important, but overlooked, figure in entertainment history.
An inexperienced immigrant, she became a huge radio personality with the launch of her daily radio show in 1929 about a Jewish immigrant family’s rise up the socioeconomic ladder. She was its creator, producer, writer and lead actress. In 1949, “The Goldbergs” launched on television as the first female character-driven domestic sitcom. The series ended in 1956 with the suicide of her co-star Philip Loeb, a victim of McCarthy and the Hollywood blacklist.
After viewing the documentary, there will be an examination of the reluctance to put women in the director’s chair and how contemporary female directors are overcoming that.
Register Early! There is a $5 charge for registering on the day of a one-time lecture or event.
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| Course # W1T7 — One Time Event
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| Place: | Auditorium, Lifelong Learning Complex, Jupiter Campus |
| Dates: | Tuesday, March 10 2020 |
| Time: | 7 - 9 PM |
| Fee: | $30 / member; $35 / non-member |
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