River of Grass

This special presentation will feature a post-screening Q&A between director Sasha Wortzel and filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo. Sasha Wortzel is an award-winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist using video, installation, sculpture, and sound to explore how past and present are inextricably linked through resonant spaces and their hauntings. Wortzel is a recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video. Wortzel received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. Her films have screened at venues world-wide including at MoMA DocFortnight, CPH:DOX, True/False, Hot Docs, San Francisco International, and Dokufest. Her expanded cinematic work has been exhibited at the New Museum, The International Center for Photography, The Kitchen, and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. Cecilia Aldarondo is an award-winning director, producer and writer from the Puerto Rican diaspora who works at the intersection of poetics and politics. Her films have screened internationally at festivals such as Tribeca, South by Southwest, IDFA, and many others, and been distributed on major platforms such as HBO / Max and POV / PBS. Her newest co-directed film DEAR MS: A REVOLUTION IN PRINT premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and is currently streaming on HBO Max. In 2025 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Film synopsis: An ode to the Florida Everglades, past and present, told through the prescient writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and those who today call the region home.DocumentaryPT2H2026-04-30
Betty Osceola
Sasha Wortzel
Sasha Wortzel
Danielle Varga
River of Grass"River of Grass"

Showtimes

April 30, 7:00 pm

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