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The Forgetting Game screening with director Russell Sheaffer

The Department of Film and Media Studies presents
The Forgetting Game
a documentary film (71 min., 2011)
by Russell Sheaffer, UC Irvine Film and Media Studies' Alum

Free and Open to the Public

Q and A to follow afterwards with the director, Russell Sheaffer, FMS alum, Class of 2009, and Winner of Film and Media Studies' 2009 Franco Tonelli Memorial Prize.

The Forgetting Game tells the story of Beate Kernke, a 5-year-old East German girl who became the first person to be legally and peacefully transferred across the Wall in March 1963, after intense negotiations between the Red Cross and the East German government. This event was then erased from historical record as soon as it happened.

http://forgettinggame.com/

Biography: Russell Sheaffer is an experimental film and documentary maker. He received his Bachelors in Film and Media Studies from UC Irvine, his Masters in Cinema Studies from NYU and his films, which often focus on the politics of gender and sexuality, have screened both nationally and internationally at venues such as the MoMA, UCLA, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Torino GLBT Film Festival, Boston LGBT Film Festival, and the Anthology Film Archives. Most recently, a short film that he co-wrote and co-directed with James Franco, MASCULINITY & ME, was featured in Franco’s solo exhibition, “The Dangerous Book Four Boys” in New York and Berlin (where the NY Times deemed the piece “the best by far” and V Man described it as one of the pieces which showed “irresolute, pop culture-inflected brilliance”). He is currently working on a Ph.D. at Indiana University in the Department of Communicaiton and Culture.