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Visiting Filmmaker Maggie Greenwald to Attend Special Screening of Alternative Western, April 10
What: A special screening of The Ballad of Little Jo will be presented by Portland State University’s Department of Theater Arts. Writer and director Maggie Greenwald will speak and take questions from the audience about the film and her work as an independent filmmaker. Based on a true story, Ballad follows a young nineteenth-century woman forced to leave her proper eastern home and head west. Faced with the prospect of becoming a wife or a prostitute, Josephine chooses another path—she becomes Jo and experiences the western life usually reserved for men.
When: Monday, April 10, 2006, 7 p.m.
Where: Guild Theater, 829 SW Ninth Avenue, Portland.
Cost: Tickets for The Ballad of Little Jo and Greenwald’s appearance are $6 and are available at the door after 6:30 p.m. on April 10.
Contact: For additional information, contact the Theater Arts department at 503-725-4612, or Erin Malecha Arias, Office of Marketing and Communications, 503-725-8794.
Background: One in a cycle of westerns released in the early 1990s, Ballad received two Independent Spirit Award nominations for Suzy Amis (best female lead) and David Chung (best supporting male). Others in the cast include Ian McKellen, Heather Graham, Rene Auberjonois and Carrie Snodgrass. The Ballad of Little Jo was the third feature film written and directed by Greenwald, who has since written and directed the award-winning Songcatcher. She has also directed a variety of TV movies and series, including several for Nickelodeon.
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For Immediate Release #06-049
When: Monday, April 10, 2006, 7 p.m.
Where: Guild Theater, 829 SW Ninth Avenue, Portland.
Cost: Tickets for The Ballad of Little Jo and Greenwald’s appearance are $6 and are available at the door after 6:30 p.m. on April 10.
Contact: For additional information, contact the Theater Arts department at 503-725-4612, or Erin Malecha Arias, Office of Marketing and Communications, 503-725-8794.
Background: One in a cycle of westerns released in the early 1990s, Ballad received two Independent Spirit Award nominations for Suzy Amis (best female lead) and David Chung (best supporting male). Others in the cast include Ian McKellen, Heather Graham, Rene Auberjonois and Carrie Snodgrass. The Ballad of Little Jo was the third feature film written and directed by Greenwald, who has since written and directed the award-winning Songcatcher. She has also directed a variety of TV movies and series, including several for Nickelodeon.
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For Immediate Release #06-049
