History Center program features documentary filmmakers

Join the History Center in Tompkins County on Thursday June 9, at Cinemapolis for the event “Projecting Place: The Role of Local History in Documentaries.”
 
The evening will center around local screenwriters and producers discussing how they utilized local history resources to create documentaries. Each presenter will show clips from select films they have created to illustrate how the information they gathered from local historical documents was used.
They will share their challenges, their sense of discovery, and engage the audience to discuss ongoing initiatives that highlight our rich local heritage.
 
Austin Bunn is a writer, screenwriter, and professor. He is the author of the short story collection “The Brink,” and he wrote the script for “Kill Your Darlings,” with the film’s director John Krokidas, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the International Days Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Bunn will show clips from “In the Hollow” and “Lavender Hill.”
 
Deborah C. Hoard has been a producer, director and writer at PhotoSynthesis Productions for 30 years and president since 2003. Her work is focused on education and social justice, and has won more than 200 national and international media awards. Hoard will show clips from “Civil Warriors” and “Into the Land of Kalachakra.”
 
Sue Perlgut formed CloseToHome Productions, in 2007, to reach a wide-ranging audience with videos that feature topical and socially relevant issues. Perlgut will show clips from “Connie Cook: A Documentary,” “101 Ways to Retire-or Not!” and “Beets and Beans: Living and Dying with Hospice.”
 
Gossa Tsegayewas born and raised in Ethiopia came to the U.S. in 1970. He graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, Ithaca College in 1976 with a degree in Television and Radio and a master’s in communication from Cornell in 1984. Tsegaye will show clips from “Smile in the Wind: A Story of Migrant Workers in King Ferry,” “Dream Street on Buffalo Hill: A Story of Families on the Hill,” “Frederick Douglass from the Church to the Street,” “The Jungles Edge: A History of the Jungle on the West End” and “Unspoken Connection: A History of the Community Garden in Ithaca Growing Hope.”
 
For details, go to www.thehistorycenter.net, or Cinemapolis.org.