Film screening: Oscar-nominated documentary 'Porcelain War'

Description

Join the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center and the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) graduate film and media program for the second film in the new Stories That Matter series.

Winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary, Porcelain War is a firsthand account of the war in Ukraine, told by ordinary people who join the citizen army to fight against the erasure of their country and culture. Amid the chaos of the Russian invasion, three artists use art as a form of resistance against destruction. In a war fought by professional soldiers against civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art, their cameras, and, for the first time, their guns.

Co-directors Leontyev and Brendan Bellomo and producer Paula DuPré Pesmen will participate in a conversation along with Johns Hopkins experts following the screening.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

More about the Stories That Matter series

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center and the Johns Hopkins AAP Graduate Film and Media launched the Stories that Matter film screening series to present cinema at the intersection of art, scientific discovery, urgent social issues and international affairs. The series is designed to cultivate robust dialogue among filmmakers, scholars, students, government officials, policy stakeholders, and the public.

The curated program in the Stories that Matter series spans U.S. and international cinema including narrative features, documentaries, and short films. Screenings take place in the 375-seat state-of-the-art theater at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center. The series provides filmmakers from the U.S. and around the world the opportunity to present international cinema to D.C. audiences, including stakeholders in the U.S. government, the international diplomatic community, and Johns Hopkins students and alumni, at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, situated at the epicenter of the U.S. capital, with sweeping views of the Capitol building and the National Gallery of Art.

Post-screening conversations with attending directors, actors, producers, screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, music composers, and documentary participants will be moderated by academic faculty, including Sig Libowitz, director of the Johns Hopkins graduate film and media program, and experts from across Johns Hopkins graduate programs, including the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Carey Business School, the School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Peabody Institute, and other academic departments as relevant to each film's subject matter.

Participating film directors are also invited to teach a master class to Johns Hopkins Film and Media program graduate students, providing filmmaking students with the opportunity to engage in dialogue with participating filmmakers about the artistic, cultural, and social significance of cinema in our changing world.

Certain films will also be presented at Johns Hopkins campuses in Baltimore and in Bologna, Italy.

Additionally, the Cineteca di Bologna is partnering with the Johns Hopkins AAP Graduate Film and Media program to present the Stories that Matter series at the 358-seat, historic and newly restored Cinema Modernissimo, in Bologna. Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe students and community members will be invited to attend and participate in all screenings at the Cinema Modernissimo alongside the Cineteca di Bologna audience.