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INDEPENDENTS NIGHT Chekhov for Children Thursday, October 21 at 6:30pm Tickets On Sale Now! In person: Sasha Waters Freyer, Phillip Lopate, and cast members. Reception in Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery will follow the screening. The gallery is located adjacent to the lobby of the Walter Reade Theater. We Card: Presentation of valid ID required to be served alcoholic beverages at the reception. Chekhov for Children is an unconventional documentary about a crazily ambitious undertaking: the 1979 staging on Broadway of Uncle Vanya by New York City fifth- and sixth-graders, directed by the celebrated writer Phillip Lopate. Among the students working on the project was filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer herself. Using incredibly rare archival video and super 8mm student-made films and videos, Chekhov for Children explores the interplay between art and life for a group of students across 30 years—including the filmmaker. It is a rare document of its time that meditates upon the reckoning that comes with middle age through the very moving lens of universal themes: first love, mentoring, and parenting. In his essay “Chekhov for Children,” Lopate asked the question, “Where does one draw the line between experimentation and self-indulgence?” And Freyer looks at that question on broadly social and intimately personal levels, and in light of the choices we make about the best models for our nations’ schools, and in the decisions we as individual parents and teachers make for our own children and students on a daily basis. As she looks back herself as well as with some of her grown classmates in interviews, we see that childhood animates our adult lives and it is through the arts that we all connect to the child that lives within us. Screening followed by a Q&A with Sasha Waters Freyer, Phillip Lopate, and cast members. Chekhov for Children Sasha Waters Freyer, 2010, USA; 74m DOUBLE FEATURE PACKAGE See Chekhov for Children at 6:30pm and stay for the 9pm screening of 11/4/08 for only $18! $14 Seniors & Students/ $12 Members Buy now >> Independents Night showcases New York premieres of American documentaries every other month at the Walter Reade Theater, making it one of the city’s foremost venues for non-fiction work. With the filmmakers in attendance, these provocative evenings of discovery and exploration include a Q&A and reception following the film. Independents Night is programmed by Marian Masone.

Buy Tickets Thu Oct 21: 6:30 Admission $12 General Public $9 Students $8 Seniors $7 Members Double Feature Package See both Chekhov for Children and 11/4/08 for only $18! $14 Seniors & Students/ $12 Members Buy now >> Packages and tickets are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office.