3/24: Q&A filmmaker Lisa Ades, producer Amanda Bonavita & historian James Young

Saturday, Mar. 24 2018, 7:30

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Director/Producer: Lisa Ades is a documentary filmmaker who has produced and directed films for PBS and cable television for more than 25 years. Her acclaimed film Miss America premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before its broadcast on PBS in 2002. Previously, she produced award-winning films with Ric Burns, including New York, a ten-hour series, (PBS, 1999), The Way West (PBS, 1995), and The Donner Party (PBS, 1992). Other documentaries include Beauty in a Jar (A&E, 2003), In the Company of Women (IFC, 2004), and Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (IFC, 2005). Most recently, she directed a seven-part series on the history of the Jews of Syria, The Syrian Jewish Community: Our Journey Through History, including an episode on WWII.

Producer Amanda Bonavita has worked in commercial television, documentary and narrative film for the past fifteen years. Her previous documentary work includes 40th Anniversary of Stonewall (PBS, 2009) and Waiting for Hockney (Tribeca Film Festival, 2008).

James E. Young is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, former Chair of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies, and Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of five books on the Holocaust, memorials, and national memory, including: The Texture of Memory (1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award; At Memory’s Edge (2000); and The Stages of Memory (2016), which won Book of the Year Award from the National Council on Public History.