WCSU Newman Club Presents

In collaboration with

Funded By Featuring Guest Speaker

Noam Osband

Adalante Director & Producer

An anthropology PhD student and filmmaker, Noam Osband's prior work a short film about an Arkansas cattle auction, Searcy County, that has screened at over fifteen festivals including the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and the Sebastopol Documentary Festival. He won the Penn Deans Award for New Media which allowed him to complete principal photography for a ongoing project about about Baruch Marzel, a Hebron-based Israeli politician. He is also currently working on a feature-length documentary about Mexican reforestation workers in the southeast United States, a film that will serve as his dissertation for his PhD in anthropology. This will be the first documentary film ever submitted for a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.

Adalante shows the heart of Mexico beating strongly, just outside of Philadelphia, in an Irish-Catholic church. This film will invite the audience into St. Patricks Church, and through portraying the lives of selected individuals a

remarkable Irish-American priest, young Mexican immigrant, and older Irish parishioners the film shows how different communities in Norristown, PA, have made mutual adjustments in order to create meaningful and heartfelt bonds of

friendship and understanding. (http://www.adelantethefilm.com/about.html)

Question & Answer session will follow the presentation!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:00pm

Midtown Student Center Theater

Food & Refreshments will

be provided