Making Cinema Matter in Baltimore: Masterclass with Anahí Berneri

Director: Anahí Berneri

FREE Workshop at The Parkway Theatre

Saturday, November 3rd, 10 AM – 1 PM

Join us for this conversation with Anahí Berneri, the director of Alanis for a conversation about her career and the power of film to explore issues of gender from a realistic, intimate point of view.

Anahí Berneri is a film and theatre director and scriptwriter. Her 2005 feature debut, A Year Without Love, earned her the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Mar del Plata International Festival. Her second feature film, Encarnación (2007) won the FIPRESCI Prize in competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Anahí is a teacher and tutor at the National School of Film Experimentation and Production at the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts, INCAA. In 2015 the Argentine Film Directors Association (DAC) honored her work as a director. Alanis is her fifth feature film.

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Making Cinema Matter in Baltimore is a FREE artist-led workshop and screening series featuring five nationally recognized visiting filmmakers. Distinguished filmmakers will lead workshops and community seminars that connect their films and filmmaking to social, creative, or cultural issues in Baltimore. Participants will explore impacts of film and media; to learn emerging practices in filmmaking; and to build local and national professional networks. This project is presented in partnership with Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Film Festival/Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Theatre, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, and Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.