Filmmaker/Novelist Ruth Ozeki to Speak at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, March 3

Ruth Ozeki is an award-winning filmmaker and novelist, whose work has been characterized by U.S.A. Today as "ardent and passionate...rare and provocative." Her first novel, My Year of Meats, was published in 1998 has been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries.

Ms. Ozeki's second novel, All Over Creation (2003) shifts the focus from meat to potatoes in a story of a family farmer, his prodigal daughter, an itinerant gang of environmental activists, and a New Age corporate spin doctor, whose lives and interests collide in Liberty Falls, Idaho.

Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, by an American father and a Japanese mother. She studied English and Asian Studies at Smith College and traveled extensively in Asia.

Ms. Ozeki returned to New York in 1985 and began a film career as an art director, designing sets and props for low budget horror movies. She switched to television production, and after several years directing documentary-style programs for a Japanese company, she started making her own films. "Body of Correspondence" (1994) won the New Visions Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and was aired on PBS. "Halving the Bones" (1995), an award-winning autobiographical film, tells the story of Ozeki's journey as she brings her grandmother's remains home from Japan. It has been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art , the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Margaret Mead Film Festival, among others. Ozeki's films, now in educational distribution, are shown at universities, museums and arts venues around the world.

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Mar 03
Wed @ 7.00pm

TICKETS
all seats $5

360/221.8268 or 800/638.7631

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