MY MOTHER’S IDEA

LIFE LESSONS
2011, Maria Finitzo, USA, 19 min. With Aislinn DeButch, Caroline Ann Thomas

Director Finitzo (TERRA INCOGNITA) based her humorous fictional short LIFE LESSONS on her own childhood experiences as the awkward daydreamer in a dance class of aspiring ballerinas. The short film became the inspiration for the documentary MY MOTHER’S IDEA, which alternates a making-of chronicle of LIFE LESSONS with a fond history of Chicago’s legendary Stone Camryn School of Ballet and its two charismatic teachers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone, who ran the school for 45 years. LIFE LESSONS opens the program, followed by MY MOTHER’S IDEA. HDCAM video. (BS)

Director Maria Finitzo will be present for audience discussion at both screenings. Following the Q&A on Saturday, the audience is invited to a reception sponsored by Two Sisters Productions in the gallery/café (valid ticket stub required for admittance).