{"id":1994,"date":"2011-03-22T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:18:35","slug":"filmmaker-booth-to-speak-in-iowa-womens-archives-march-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/22\/filmmaker-booth-to-speak-in-iowa-womens-archives-march-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Booth to speak in Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives, March 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Award-winning filmmaker Marlene Booth will present a talk entitled <strong>\u201cTell Me a Story:&nbsp; Making and Learning From Documentary Films\u201d <\/strong>on Tuesday, March 22<sup>nd<\/sup>. Born and raised in Des Moines, Booth looks back \u2013 with clips from her films &#8211; on 35 years of filmmaking as a woman, a feminist, and a dyed-in-the-wool Hawkeye.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iowa Women\u2019s Archives, third floor UI Main Library<br>March 22, 2011<br>4:00 &#8211; 6:00 p.m.<\/strong>&nbsp; Reception at 4:00 p.m., followed by presentation from 4:30-5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booth, a lecturer in film at the University of Hawaii, has worked in film since 1975, both as an independent and for public television station WGBH-TV in Boston. She has produced and directed several major documentary films screened on PBS, at national and international film festivals, and in classrooms nationwide. Her most recent film, <strong>Pidgin: the voice of Hawaii<\/strong> (2009), examines the language spoken by over half of Hawai\u2019i\u2019s people, and confronts issues of language and identity, and who gets to decide what language we speak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booth\u2019s 1999 film \u201c<strong>Yidl in the Middle: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa\u201d<\/strong> (1999) explores her Iowa-Jewish roots and uses home movies, period photos, her high school reunion, and interviews, to examine the process of negotiating identity, as an American, a Jew, and a woman.&nbsp; \u201c<strong>Yidl in the Middle\u201d <\/strong>will be screened at Hillel (122 E. Market St.) on Wednesday, March 23<sup>rd<\/sup> at 7:00 p.m., followed by a question and answer with the director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning filmmaker Marlene Booth will present a talk entitled \u201cTell Me a Story:&nbsp; Making and Learning From Documentary Films\u201d on Tuesday, March 22nd. Born and raised in Des Moines, Booth looks back \u2013 with clips from her films &#8211; on 35 years of filmmaking as a woman, a feminist, and a dyed-in-the-wool Hawkeye.&nbsp; Iowa Women\u2019s<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/22\/filmmaker-booth-to-speak-in-iowa-womens-archives-march-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Filmmaker Booth to speak in Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives, March 22&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}