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Silver Images Showcases
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Live Multimedia Presentations
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Silver Images Showcases — Screenings
and Workshops That Use Film To Help Us Better Understand The Process of Growing
Older
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| Terra Nova regularly hosts screenings and workshops as part
of its Silver Images initiative. At the 2005 Chicago International Film
Festival, Terra Nova presented an evening public workshop meant to offer a
deeper understanding of the Silver Images Generations Award and a broader
perspective for helping all of us to deal with the complexities and challenges
of growing older. The event featured three major Chicago-based actors in a
discussion meant to offer an insight into how growing older had impacted their
work and their creative expression. Participating in the interactive discussion
with an audience of approximately 150 were: Irma P.Hall, who has played roles
alongside of such actors as Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Robert Duvall in movies
like The Ladykillers, Patch Adams, and Collateral; Anthony Mockus, Sr., a
well-known character actor featured in movies like The Untouchables and
Backdraft; and Daniel J. Travanti, best known for his 1981 Emmy Winning role as
Capt., Frank Furillo in TVs popular series Hill Street Blues.
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| As an additional prong of the local Silver Images
Initiative, Terra Nova is partnering with the City of Chicago’s Department of
Aging in presenting quarterly film screenings and workshops at different venues
across the city. The first was held in January, 2006 at the Museum of Science
and Industry’s theater; the second, in April, 2006 at Columbia College’s Film
Row Cinema and the third in August, 2006 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The
remaining screening takes place in the fall, at the Chicago International Film
Festival. In development, is a series of evening screenings and interactive
workshops for intergenerational audiences that will take place at major
community venues like the Mexican Fine Arts Center and the Beverly Arts Center.
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Live MultiMedia Presentations — A Focus
on The Human Side Of Aging
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| What may best define Terra Nova Films is its mission to
approach the subject of aging, not as a clinical issue, but as a human one,
treating older adults with sincerity and integrity and giving them a voice in a
world in which they are often overlooked or ignored. This sensitivity toward
older people is an artistic expression woven throughout all of Terra Nova’s
work, from its production of documentaries and videos to its selection and
acquisition of visual stories that educate and inform.
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| But, it may be best summed up in an artistically-crafted
live multi-media presentation by Terra Nova’s executive director Jim Vanden
Bosch that is now being recognized as a new benchmark in understanding
caregiving today. The U.S. Administration on Aging’s Fran Wersells describes it
with these words to her colleagues all across the country.
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| “The film material spanned 25 years and
was totally engrossing. The power of the films with Jim's remarks of his own
journey to understand the dynamics of caregiving as a film maker were more than
we bargained for as most of his audience were moved to deep emotion and a new
understanding of caregiving and how it fundamentally affects the care receiver
and the care giver.
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| He discussed the issues of control,
familial anger, abuse and brought the entire audience around to understand that
caregiving is a circular process that should be called something like
"care-sharing" and has the potential for great growth and a better
understanding of our own human condition…This is not an AoA endorsement. This
is a personal endorsement of a wonderful and powerful resource that does not
come our way often.”
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| This multimedia format serves as the basis for other live
presentations created by Terra Nova, including those done in coordination and
partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association’s Greater Illinois chapter.
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