city pages steps up
City Pages has joined a growing list of partners who are committed to seeing that the stories of Minnesota's Greatest Generation are preserved and presented to a statewide audience.
City Pages, IFP: Minnesota Center for Media Arts, Channel Z, Frozen Feet Films, MELSA: Metropolitan Library Service Agency and Classic Auto Limousine Service are all actively supporting the October 8 Moving Pictures Film Festival & Legacy Forum as well as the 50+ registered filmmakers. Advertising for the Festival will be featured in City Pages as well as both major metro newspapers. Radio promotions are planned and personal invitations will be mailed to the 18,000 members of the Minnesota Historical Society.
In addition to pre-Festival ads and articles, post-Festival ads and articles will identify the award winning films and filmmakers.
"Navy men and USO women looking at world globe at Minneapolis service center" 1943, Photographer: George Miles Ryan Studio
Image courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Location no. E448.252 p14, Negative no. 98049. For more images of Minnesota's Greatest Generation, visit the Photo and Art Database.
minnesota's greatest generation could go global
The registered filmmakers are playing an important part in preserving the legacy of the World War II generation. Recently, several members of the Generation with whom we have worked in developing the Project have passed away.
The need is urgent.
As word of the impressive interest of filmmakers has spread, so too have opportunities to share your stories. The week before the October 8 Film Festival & Legacy Forum, the Minnesota Historical Society will host a unique international conference of history museum officials. One proposal to be discussed will be an international initiative to utilize short films to explore the life and legacy of the generation that grew up amid the Depression, came of age during World War II and returned home to rebuild in the wake of war.
hollywood and the holocaust: history on film
- September 26, 2006
- 7 to 8:30 p.m.
- Minnesota History Center
- $8, $5 for MHS members
- Reservations recommended
- call 651-296-6126
Join Star Tribune film critic Colin Covert and historian David Itzkowitz for a evening of movie clips and conversation about the uneasy, evolving relationship between America, the Holocaust and Hollywood.
Covert and Itzkowitz will screen film clips and explore what went on behind the scenes of each production, what was happening in Hollywood to make each possible and how each illustrates changing American ideas about the Holocaust. They'll examine why Hollywood has made Holocaust movies, discuss whether American films trivialize the terrors of the Holocaust and consider how films might be influencing the historical memories of a whole new generation of moviegoers.