Screening of War Bride Story by Filipino Groups
The Filipino American National Historical Society of Sonoma County and Filipino American Association of SSU cordially invite staff, faculty and students to a special film screening of the documentary "Strange Land: My Mother’s War Bride Story. " The film will be shown on Wednesday, March 7, 7 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Student Union. For information, call (707) 823-8715.
"Strange Land" explores one war bride's story, her journey and adjustment, not only to a strange place, but to a man with whom she thought she had something in common. Norma Vega Castillo came to Kapa'a, Kaua'i from the Philippines at the end of War World II as the war bride of an American GI serving in Manila. She is one of more than 500,000 war brides from 50 different countries that made the journey to America. Her daughter, Stephanie Castillo, a former journalist and an Emmy award-winning independent filmmaker, has created an intimate, personal documentary from family photos and hours of interviews with her mother.
Other Films
DR. BRONNER’S MAGIC SOAPBOX – A
documentary about obsession, compassion and all-purpose
soap. Sonoma Film Institute. 7 p.m., Friday, March 2, Warren
Auditorium. 4-2606.
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS - An Academy Award-nominated 2006 drama based on the true story of Christopher Gardner, a family man struggling to break into the stock brokerage business as an intern, despite a rocky financial situation. Scene It Movie Series. 9 p.m., Saturday, March 3. The Cooperage. 4-2804.
UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANCAILLES / A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT - Five desperate men shoot themselves in order to be relieved from the horrifying frontline at the Somme in WWI. A court-martial decides to punish them by leaving them alone in no-man's land, to be killed in the crossfire. Then all hell breaks loose and they all die. Or not? French Film lecture series. 7 p.m., Monday, March 5, Stevenson 2006. 4-3159.
M - Someone is murdering children in a German city. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible. German Film Series. Admission free. Films shown with English subtitles. 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 7, Erin Fisher Room second floor of Student Union. Michaela Grobbel, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, 4-2637.
TRANSPARENT - Looks at 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few cases, gone on to raise their biological children. Culture and Gender Studies Center Movie Fest. 12 p.m., Thursday, March 8, Student Union Multi-Purpose Room, 4-2710.
AN EVENING OF SURREAL ANIMATION - An evening of unusual animation includes Winsor McCay's "How A Mosquito Operates," four marvelous Fleisher cartoons, "Koko's Earth Control," "Bimbo's Initiation," "The Old Man Of The Mountain," "Ha! Ha! Ha!," Tex Avery's "Little Tinker," the Quay Brothers' "The Cabinet Of Jan Svankmajer "and "The Comb." Sonoma Film Institute. 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 8, Darwin 103. 4-2606.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. Sonoma Film Institute. 7 p.m., Friday, March 9, Warren Auditorium. 4-2606.