The Ladies

Director: C. A. Voros
Cast: Vali David, Mimi Toth
Format: HDCam   Runtime: 13 minutes
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screening in: Shorts Screening with Features
plays with: Flying On One Engine

Screening Times

4:00 PM, Sunday March 9th - Alamo Lamar 1
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11:00 AM, Tuesday March 11th - Alamo Lamar 1
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1:30 PM, Saturday March 15th - Alamo Lamar 1
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Synopsis:
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kept a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the importance of family and the persistence of the creative spirit.

Director's Bio:
Currently a Dean's Fellow in cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Art's Graduate Department of Film and Television, Ms. Voros' careers prior to filmmaking have included that of a stage actor, restaurateur and nationally-ranked saber fencer. The only member of her family not to be born in Hungary, Christina was raised in Cambridge, MA, where she later attended Harvard University. In 2006 she was awarded a Graduate Assistantship in cinematography, teaching under Tony Jannelli- whom she has continued to assist on projects with Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese. Her first documentary short, 'The Ladies', received a Gold Hugo at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival. Recent projects include campaign videography for Sen. John Edwards and 2 feature length documentaries shooting India Ð 'Children of Ambedkar', a film about the Dalit community in Mumbai and 'Jogni Ð Sex or Culture', a meditation on ritualized prostitution in rural Andhra Pradesh. Ms Voros is currently directing a 'Garden in Transit: the movie', a documentary feature on the largest collaborative public arts project in NYC history.