Stages

Resource Information

The work Stages represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Stages

Contributor

• Kanopy (Firm)
• Sterrenberg, Jay Arthur

Film director

• Sterrenberg, Jay Arthur

Subject

• Community centers -- New York (State) | New York
• Community theater
• Community theater -- New York (State) | New York
• Documentary films
• Intergenerational relations
• Intergenerational relations -- New York (State) | New York
• Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
• New York (N.Y.)
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Lower East Side
• Older people - Services for
• Older people -- Services for -- New York (State) | New York
• Puerto Rican women
• Community centers
• Theater and older people
• Theater and older people -- New York (State) | New York
• Theater and society
• Theater and society -- New York (State) | New York
• Theater and society -- New York (State) | New York -- Psychological aspects
• Theater and youth
• Theater and youth -- New York (State) | New York
• Theaters -- Psychological aspects
• Youth
• Youth -- New York (State) | New York
• Puerto Rican women -- New York (State) | New York

Genre

• Documentary films

Language

eng

Summary

Stages is a moving and surprisingly funny vérité exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. In New York City's oldest community center, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, identity, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by the liberating power of their own stories-- first as they are spoken across generations, and later when they are performed for a sold-out show. A rare feat in non-fiction filmmaking, Stages was collaboratively directed by twelve members of the award winning Meerkat Media Collective

Cataloging source

CaSfKAN

Characteristic

videorecording

Date time place

Originally produced by New Day Films in 2009

Runtime

82

Technique

live action