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Side Institute News Brief—March 2004
Institute Presents Newman's Film, Nothing Really Happens at Annual Conference of Women in Psychology
March, 2004 -- The Institute was invited to present founder Fred Newman's award-winning independent film, Nothing Really Happens (Memories of Aging Strippers) at the Association for Women in Psychology's annual conference in Philadelphia in February. Bette Braun, the Institute's Director of Training, Madelyn Chapman, Managing Director and one of the film's lead actresses, and Mary Fridley, Director of Development and the film's producer, presented the film to conference-goers and led a post-screening discussion.
Workshop participants included Deborah Tolman, Professor of Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, and Beth Firestein, a psychologist from Loveland, Colorado, who commented, "I found the film to be a meaningful, complex, and nuanced portrayal of issues of sexuality, history, family and relationships in the lives of three very differing women."
In the course of four festival appearances, Nothing Really Happens -- which embodies Newman's uniquely postmodern political and cultural sensibility -- has won two awards. The Director's View Film Festival in Connecticut awarded the film First Prize for Narratives; the Berkeley Video and Film Festival followed with a Grand Festival Special Recognition Award. Nothing Really Happens was featured at the Auteur Film Festival in Belgrade and the Black International Film Festival in Berlin.
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