Edet Belzberg, Academy Award nominee and winner of the 2001 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Documentary, will speak at Scripps College following a screening of her film “Children Underground” on Friday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Auditorium on the Scripps campus. Both the screening and lecture are free and open to the public.
In Romanian with English subtitles, “Children Underground” is a modern tale that ventures below the streets of Bucharest, Romania, to introduce five members of a “family” of orphaned, abandoned, or runaway children. The intimate, cinema vérité style allows the children to speak for themselves with striking naturalness, revealing both the horrific conditions of their existence and their uninhibited, distinctive personalities.
Sponsored by the Scripps Humanities Institute, this event is part of “Modernity from Below,” the Institute’s spring film series and symposium, which offers a frank look modernity from the perspective of the subordinate classes. For more information on Humanities Institute events, please call (909) 621-8326.