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Length: 52 min.

Filmmaker:

Julie Mallozzi

Official Web Site
http://www.juliemallozzi.com/onceremoved.html

Distributor(s):
First Run/ Icarus Films
http://www.frif.com

Funder(s):
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
LEF Foundation
Massachusetts Media Fellowships
Harvard Film Study Center

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Once Removed

Film Description

A young woman travels to China to meet her mother's family for the first time, and gets caught in a web of politics and history. Weaving together dreams, archival footage, and scenes from her relatives' lives, she meditates on the complications of remembering and forgetting the past.

News:

Latest news at http://www.juliemallozzi.com.

Screenings:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New England Film and Video Festival; Film Fest New Haven; Roxbury Film Festival; Electric Eye Cinema, Madison; Artists' Television Access, San Francisco.

Biographies

Director/Camera/Editor Julie Mallozzi

Julie Mallozzi is a documentary filmmaker based in Boston, Massachusetts, whose films explore the interactions between cultures thrown together by history, and between politics and personal experience. Once Removed is Mallozzi's first feature film. Her second film, Monkey Dance follows three Cambodian-American teenagers and their involvement with traditional Cambodian dance. She also freelances as a producer, cameraperson, and editor on documentaries and videos for community organizations. Mallozzi studied filmmaking at Harvard University, where she currently teaches.

Awards

BFVF Award, New England Film and Video Festival