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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/the-catskills/
SUMMARY:The Catskills
DESCRIPTION:*Proceeds from ticket sales for this screening will benefit the
  Borscht Belt Film Festival\, a project of the Borscht Belt Museum.*\n\nTh
 e Catskills is a humorous and nostalgic tribute to what became affectionat
 ely known as the Borscht Belt. Stand-up comedians share their best shtick 
 while former waiters\, entertainers\, and dance instructors recount tales 
 of the family-run resorts and bungalows that inspired films like Dirty Dan
 cing. Featuring home movies\, publicity photos\, postcards\, and menus\, t
 his time capsule provides an overview of Jewish immigration to New York go
 ing back to the early twentieth century. Director Lex Gillespie (The Mambo
 niks\, SFJFF 2019) maps the development of the vacation destination\, from
  a refuge for working-class Jews seeking a respite from poverty in overcro
 wded New York City tenements to a lavish summer playground for the affluen
 t.\n\nDIRECTOR’S BIO: Lex Gillespie is a three-time Peabody Award winner
  and the shared winner of a silver baton from the duPont-Columbia Journali
 sm Awards at New York’s Columbia School of Journalism. For the past 25 y
 ears\, he’s produced documentaries on music\, history\, culture and the 
 arts. His credits include “Let the Good Times Roll\,” a 26-hour histor
 y of African-American music from the blues to Motown\; “Songs in the Win
 d\,” the story of the indigenous music of the Andes Mountains\; and “S
 eoul House\,” about a hip-hop opera set in a Korean mom-and-pop corner s
 tore in Washington\, DC.\n\nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: I got the idea for my 
 film when I was screening “The Mamboniks” in 2019. At nearly each of t
 he film festivals\, someone would raise their hand during the Q&amp\;A ses
 sion and ask a question about the Catskills. I realized there was a demand
  for a movie about this storied vacation land that so many people recall f
 ondly.
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LOCATION:Rosendale Theater\, 408 Main St\, Rosendale\, New York\, 12472\, U
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