NINA & IRENA
Thursday, September 28th at 7:30 PM
Followed by an in-depth conversation with Subject Nina Gottlieb, Filmmaker Daniel
Lombroso, and Producer Devon Blackwell
$15 Public | $10 Members
The New Yorker director and journalist Daniel Lombroso
made Nina & Irena—a film about his grandmother, Nina
Gottlieb, a Holocaust survivor who comes to terms with the loss of her
sister who was never found after remaining silent about her experiences for 80 years.
According to Lombroso, this film is a response and a coda to his previous
documentary, White Noise, for which he spent four-years reporting on the
American alt-right. Lombroso will be joined for an in-depth conversation by
Nina Gottlieb and Producer Devon Blackwell,
a producer at The New Yorker, to discuss the film, their experiences, and the
connection to Lombroso’s work on White Noise (which showed here at CAC
in 2022). (USA, 2023, 22 min., color, DCP)
Daniel Lombroso is a filmmaker at The New Yorker with
a focus on far-right extremism. His short films for the magazine have played
Sundance, TIFF, Hot Docs, and won various journalism awards. His debut feature
film, White Noise, based on his four years reporting inside the
alt-right, was named one of the top documentaries of 2020 by Vox and The Boston Globe.
Devon Blackwell is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Raised in Silver
Spring, MD, she began making films in elementary school as a hobby with her
friends, leading her to pursue a Bachelor's degree from The New School for
Journalism with a minor in media studies. In college, documentary filmmaking
became her focus. Devon currently works at The New Yorker as an associate
producer, directing, producing, and editing documentary films. Her short
film directorial début, Goodbye, Morganza, recently premièred at
the Tribeca Festival.
