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How the film, “Mamacita,” became a lesson on the power of forgiveness
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It was a chilly October night when “Mamacita” had its New York premiere at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History. However, Mexico-born and raised filmmaker/director José Pablo Estrada Torrescano warmed the auditorium as he announced his first feature-length film – a documentary about his grandmother, a self-made entrepreneur who… Read more
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Filmmaker reflects on grandmother in film, “306 Hollywood”
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Jonathan BogarÃn, 40, and his sister Elan BogarÃn, 36, loved their grandmother so much, they immortalized her on film. The Jewish-American matriarch, Annette Ontell, passed away on April 4, 2011 at age 93 – leaving behind only memories, and artifacts, in her house at 306 Hollywood Ave. in Hillside, NJ, which she lived in for… Read more
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Author Bob Brody: A note of thanks, on my dad’s behalf
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Ask me for my favorite Thanksgiving story and here’s what I’ll now have to tell you. In 1930, a certain 4-year-old in Newark had yet to speak a single word. So his mother took her first-born son to see a series of physicians for a diagnosis. It turned out that my future father had… Read more
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In My (Grand) Mother’s Words: Falling in love
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The day I unexpectedly arrived to Honduras for what was supposed to be my grandmother’s 92nd birthday bash, an intimate conversation with my grandmother occurred. We were in her living room, surrounded by people, yet she took a moment to look up at me in the middle of all the commotion, and she asked: “Victoria,… Read more