Wanda's Picks Radio Show Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013

Lisa Fruchtman, co-director of Sweet Dreams, is an Academy Award winning editor who has worked in both feature film and television. The film, Sweet Dreams is the story of Ingoma Nshya is Rwanda’s first and only all women’s drumming troupe. Made up of women from both sides of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the troupe offers a place of support, healing and reconciliation. When the group decides to partner with two young American entrepreneurs, Jennie Dundas and Alexis Miesen of Brooklyn’s Blue Marble Ice Cream, and open Rwanda’s first ever ice cream shop, these remarkable Rwandan women embark on a journey of independence, peace and possibility. SWEET DREAMS interweaves intimate, heart-wrenching stories with joyous and powerful music to present a moving portrait of a country in transition.

The show opens this weekend. See http://www.sweetdreamsrwanda.com/

Nicole Klaymoon's Embodiment Project presents House of Matter with co-writer d. Sabela Grimes who joins us this morning. It opens at ODC Theatre in San Francisco Dec. 13-15, 2013 www.odcdance.org/events.php

Music: Dwight Tribble, Meklit;Quinn, Gina Breedlove. 

Show link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2013/12/04/wandas-picks-radio-show-sweet-dreams-house-of-matter

Bios
Among Lisa Fruchtman's many film projects are APOCALYPSE NOW, THE RIGHT STUFF, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, THE GODFATHER PART III, THE DOCTOR, MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING, DANCE WITH ME and THE WOODSMAN. For television, she has edited such HBO films as TRUMAN, WITNESS PROTECTION, POINT OF ORGIN and NORMAL. Her awards and honors include an Oscar for THE RIGHT STUFF, Academy Award and BAFTA Nominations for Best Editing for THE GODFATHER PART III and APOCALYPSE NOW, an Emmy Nomination and a Cable ACE Award for TRUMAN. Lisa lives in Berkeley.


d. Sabela grimes aka Ovasoul7 aka Professor G: The Funk-Instructor aka The Guru of Groove aka The Beacon of Boogie is a multi-hyphenate artist, creative director/consultant and educator whose body of work journeys through the current future of the present past and the corrugated spaces of many incarnations. Each creative offering is a familiar ritual, a conscious spectacle, the stillest rumination.

Sweet Dreams Screening Schedule Opening Week(end), Dec. 6-12, 2013

Landmark Opera Plaza -601 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102, (415) 267-4893

Fri 12/6, 7p show
- Q&A with filmmaker Rob Fruchtman, Alexis Miesen of Blue Marble Ice Cream and Kiki Katese, founder of Ingoma Nshya.
Tues 12/10, 7p show
- Q&A with filmmaker Lisa Fruchtman, co-presented by MoAD (Museum of African Diaspora)
Thurs 12/12, 7p show
- Q&A with filmmaker Lisa Fruchtman

Landmark Clay, 2261 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, (415) 561-9921

Sat, 12/7, 1:30p show
- Q&A with Rob & Lisa Fruchtman and Kiki Katese, founder of Ingoma Nshya PLUS Special live drumming performance by The Ingoma Nshya drummers featured in the film: Ingabire Rose, Mujawayezu Therese, Uwintiji Clementine, Uwamariya Clementine

Landmark Shattuck - 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, (510) 845-7300

Fri 12/6, 7:10p show
– Q&A with Filmmaker Lisa Fruchtman
Sat, 12/7, 7:10p show
- Q&A with Rob & Lisa Fruchtman and Kiki Katese, founder of Ingoma Nshya PLUS Special live drumming performance by The Ingoma Nshya drummers featured in the film: Ingabire Rose, Mujawayezu Therese, Uwintiji Clementine, Uwamariya Clementine
Mon 12/9, 7:10p show
– Q&A with Filmmaker Lisa Fruchtman, co-presented with Broaklyn.
Wed 12/11, 7:10p show 
– Q&A with Filmmaker Lisa Fruchtman.

Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94901, (415) 454-1222

Sun, 12/8, 7p show
- Q&A with Rob & Lisa Fruchtman and Kiki Katese, founder of Ingoma Nshya PLUS Special live drumming performance by The Ingoma Nshya drummers featured in the film: Ingabire Rose, Mujawayezu Therese, Uwintiji Clementine, Uwamariya Clementine
Presented by Grateful Dead’s drummer Mickey Hart!